Joshua Klein

Pedro the Lion Achilles Heel With their wimpy, wispy sad-sack songs, it's a wonder Pedro the Lion got adopted by the usually higher-energy emo scene. This album, their fifth, proves...

Buddy and Julie Miller Love Snuck Up Buddy and Julie Miller are like country music's answer to Richard and Linda Thompson, except these two actually love each other and those...

The New Year The End is Near Apocalyptic imagery doesn't come much more explicit than "The End's Not Here," the lead track on The New Year's second album. Such gloominess...

!!! Louden Up Now Considering so much of the enigmatically named !!! is about giving in to the funky beats, it follows that little of singer Nic Offer's silly sloganeering...

The Secret Machines Now Here Is Nowhere Early buzz pegged The Secret Machines as the second coming of Pink Floyd. But with the exception of a few tracks on this...

Slicker We All Have A Plan There's something weird and wonderful going on throughout Slicker's fourth release. "God Bless This Mess, This Test We Pass" and "When the Dog Goes...

Paco This is Where We Live With Fountains of Wayne--and therefore one third of Ivy (Adam Schlesinger) --suddenly busy, it's no surprise that Andy Chase and Dominique Durand (the rest...

Gomez Split the Difference Often considered England's answer to American jam bands, Gomez couldn't fool even the most casual Grateful Dead fan. Yet there is something groovy going on throughout...

X-ecutioners Revolutions DJs don't need a singer or an MC to make people pay attention, especially if you're one of the wizards in the X-ecutioners. Even so, DJ Rob Swift,...

When the Wu-Tang Clan began to splinter into solo projects, it was impossible to predict which of the many MCs would become stars. But certainly no one picked Ghostface Killah--now...