Joshua Klein

Aerosmith Honkin' On Bobo Aerosmith may be as popular as ever, but the band's bland, soulless pop sops hint that some sort of deal with the devil may indeed have...

Slaid Cleaves Wishbones There are hundreds of acoustic-guitar-strumming hopefuls, each desperately but rarely successfully searching for something to set them apart. Slaid Cleaves does just that a minute or so...

Weezer Weezer: Deluxe Edition Weezer's self-titled debut, commonly known as "the blue album," is no masterpiece, but at this point it's still an undeniable classic, one of the better releases...

Graham Parker Your Country There's something deliciously sardonic about British singer Graham Parker titling his first album for Chicago's twang-friendly label Bloodshot "Your Country," two words that are deviously rife...

Madvillain Madvillainy This team of underground hip-hop MC MF Doom and producer Madlib has been so long in the making that the album was extensively leaked several months before street...

The Bad Plus Give On their first album, the boundary pushing jazz trio The Bad Plus covered Blondie, Nirvana and Aphex Twin and made it sound as natural as their...

Grant Lee Buffalo Storm Hymnal: Gems from the Vaults of Grant Lee Buffalo While the alt-rock revolution opened some doors for Grant Lee Buffalo, none opened quite wide enough to...

In interviews, the Neptunes' Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo bristle when they're called hip-hop producers. Admittedly, their scope extends well beyond the bounds of rap, but their less-fashionable side project...

Lamb Between Darkness and Wonder It's a shame Lamb got lopped in with more traditional trip-hop acts such as Portishead, as the British duo went out of its way to...

The Vines Winning Days One of the few pleasures of the Vines' dire post-grunge debut "Highly Evolved" was listening to troubled singer Craig Nicholls struggle to keep it together. Unfortunately,...