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Gram Parsons

Archives Vol. 1 | Amoeba
These two discs go a long way toward supporting the notion that Parsons was a pivotal player in the rise of country rock.

By: JEFF TAMARKIN | January 07, 2008

Boys Noize

Oi Oi Oi | Last Gang
Aficionados and connoisseurs of dance music qua dance music will find Oi Oi Oi a potent, concentrated dose of the undiluted pure stuff.

By: ANDREW GRAHAM | January 07, 2008

Reverend Organdrum

Hi-Fi Stereo | Yep Roc
Reverend Organdrum come by their name honestly.

By: MIKAEL WOOD | January 07, 2008

Gorillaz

D-Sides | EMI
It’s a butcher’s trashcan of a double-length album.

By: PATRICK CATES | January 07, 2008

Little Big Town

A Place To Land | Equity
Although you may wish that the first single wasn’t about life on the road, even it is soaked in a sweetness that’s too rare these days.

By: WERNER TRIESCHMANN | December 31, 2007

Persian Electronic Music: Yesterday and Today, 1966-2006

Sub
First things first: this is not, as its title might lead you to believe, a compilation of Iranian electronic music by a variety of artists.

By: SUSANNA BOLLE | December 31, 2007

Carla Bley

The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu | Watt/ECM
No one is writing — or playing — more beautiful jazz.

By: JON GARELICK | December 31, 2007

Queen Latifah

Trav'lin Light | Verve
Queen Latifah is never going to be Billie Holiday.

By: JEFF TAMARKIN | December 31, 2007

U2

The Joshua Tree: 20th Anniversary | Island
It was with The Joshua Tree that they became stadium-ready international superstars and solidified their relationship with producer Brian Eno.

By: MATT ASHARE | December 31, 2007

Mountain

Masters of War | Megaforce
Leslie West is known as a guitar man, but on the latest album by his long-time band Mountain, vocals are every bit as crucial.

By: BRETT SINGER | December 26, 2007

DJ Drama

Gangsta Grillz: The Album | Atlantic
The West Coast is conspicuously under-represented.

By: ANDREW GRAHAM | December 26, 2007

Ky-Mani Marley

Radio | Vox/AAO
It’s a little jarring to hear him dropping f-bombs and rapping about packing heat all over his fourth album

By: BEN WESTHOFF | December 26, 2007

M83

Digital Shades, Vol. 1 | Mute
M83 do something unexpected on Digital Shades, Vol. 1 , diving headlong into ambient music.

By: RICHARD BECK | December 26, 2007

Armor for Sleep

Smile for Them | Sire
It's kind of refreshing to hear a bitchy emo record that doesn’t direct all its ire toward the heartless females.

By: MIKAEL WOOD | December 26, 2007

Burial

Untrue | Hyperdub
Dubstep has been given its Dizzee Rascal moment with the release of Burial’s Untrue , the elusive London producer’s second album.

By: NICK SYLVESTER | December 26, 2007

NRBQ

Christmas Wish: Deluxe Edition | Clang!
First released in 1979, it’s a warm-hearted folk-rock number that should have become a holiday standard decades ago.

By: BRETT MILAN0 | December 17, 2007

Glenn Gould: The Original Jacket Collection

Sony
Even when Glenn Gould was not at his best, he was an indispensable artist.

By: LLOYD SCHWARTZ | December 20, 2007

City of Dreams: A Collections of New Orleans Music

Rounder
City of Dreams never comes off as an epitaph.

By: JEFF TAMARKIN | December 17, 2007

Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration

Stax
This year, California’s Concord label took ownership of Memphis’s greatest musical treasure chest, the Stax Records catalogue.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | December 17, 2007

Terry Adams

Rhythm Spell | Clang!
NRBQ are still on hiatus, maybe for good, but leader Terry Adams’s latest solo set has the sound and the style of a vintage Q album.

By: BRETT MILANO | December 17, 2007

N.W.A.

Straight Outta Compton, 20th Anniversary Edition | Ruthless/Priority
Twenty years later, Straight Outta Compton holds up better than most of the East Coast albums released around the same time.

By: BEN WESTHOFF | December 17, 2007

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