Joshua Klein

The Clash London Calling: Legacy Edition No household should be without a copy of The Clash's "London Calling," whether on vinyl, cassette, CD or the recently remastered CD edition. Those...

Green Day American Idiot Green Day never really went anywhere, but all the same, "American Idiot" feels like something of a comeback. An ambitious rock opera with two songs nudging...

The Ex Turn Someone unfamiliar with the Ex might mistake the group's latest album "Turn" for any one of the many bands (Sonic Youth, Fugazi) at least partly indebted to...

Gibby Haynes & His Problem Gibby Haynes & His Problem Gibby Haynes' biggest problem may be that no one remembers his band the Butthole Surfers. Haynes' solo debut doesn't deviate...

Flogging Molly Within a Mile of Home Like the Pogues, Flogging Molly manages to match old-country poetry and passion with the kind of monster hooks that make the crowd go...

Jeff Buckley Grace: Special Edition Now that Jeff Buckley is renowned as some sort of genius, it's no surprise that what little music he recorded in his all-too-short lifetime keeps...

Rilo Kiley More Adventurous If Rilo Kiley hits the mainstream, it will be singer Jenny Lewis who takes them there. Unfortunately, "More Adventurous" shoves her voice way up front, loud...

Radio 4 Stealing of a Nation Radio 4 were among the first out of the gate in New York City's punk-funk revival, but groups such as the Rapture and !!!...

LL Cool J The DEFinition Most rappers have only a few albums in them. LL Cool J's nearly 20-year run, then, is virtually unparalleled in the world of hip-hop, especially...

Bands with three great songwriters are few and far between. Bands that release three great albums in a row are even more rare. "The Dirty South" marks yet another classic...