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Maritime

Heresy and the Hotel Choir | Flameshovel
The third album by this affable Milwaukee quartet is their handsomest, most assured outing yet.

By: MIKAEL WOOD | November 19, 2007

The Hives

The Black and White Album | A+M/Octone
Call me crazy, but I consider Tyrannosaurus Hives to be one of the best punk-rock albums of all time

By: WILL SPITZ | November 19, 2007

Coheed and Cambria

Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV, Vol. 2: No World For Tomorrow | Columbia
Sanchez uses his fictional backdrop to offer the sort of advice you might get from Al Gore — or maybe on Kid Nation.

By: MATT ASHARE | November 19, 2007

Roger Sanchez: Release Yourself

Vol. 6 | Stealth
Sanchez tests the limits of the tough, the frantic, and the joyful. Fans expect no less.

By: MICHAEL FREEDBERG | November 14, 2007

Planet Safety

Soul Note
Do they have volcanoes in Argentina?

By: JON GARELICK | November 13, 2007

Ben Lee

Ripe | West
Ben Lee’s never made any secret of his fondness for the warm and fuzzy side of Evan Dando’s Lemonheads pop.

By: VICTORIA WELCH | November 13, 2007

Dax Riggs

We Sing of Only Blood or Love | Fat Possum
One of the best tunes here could almost pass for an outtake from Marilyn Manson’s latest.

By: MIKAEL WOOD | November 13, 2007

R.E.M.

R.E.M. LIVE | Warner Bros.
Unless you’re a diehard fan, wait for their new album in the spring.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | November 13, 2007

Joni Mitchell

Shine | Hear Music
Joni Mitchell’s first album for Starbucks’ Hear Music label isn’t being hyped as a concept album, but that’s what it is.

By: JEFF TAMARKIN | November 06, 2007

Lori McKenna

Unglamorous | Warner Bros.
Lori McKenna had her major-label debut co-produced by Hill’s husband, country superstar Tim McGraw.

By: WERNER TRIESCHMANN | November 06, 2007

Robert Wyatt

Comicopera | Domino
The sweetest instrument is Wyatt’s voice, whose fragile, high, quavering tone is honest to the core.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | November 06, 2007

Britney Spears

Blackout | Jive
Spears’s fifth studio album is a witchy electro-pop wonder as suspect as those prescription pills photographed in her purse a few weeks ago.

By: ELLEE DEAN | November 06, 2007

White Williams

Smoke | Tigerbeat6
New York–based White Williams isn’t interested in proving that laptop jocks can be as in-your-face as dudes doing rock.

By: MIKAEL WOOD | November 06, 2007

I Shall Exterminate Everything around Me that Restricts Me from Being the Master | Metropolis
ITunes has Detroit’s Electric Six filed under “blues,” and the acoustic-guitar riff that kicks off the band’s new disc is bloozy in a LedZep/White Stripes sorta way.

By: MATT ASHARE | November 06, 2007