Music Archive: F

F- Minus

• Wake Up Screaming (Hellcat)

The F-ups

• The F-Ups (Capitol)

FM3

• Buddha Machine (Staalplaat)

FM3 and Dou Wei

• Hou Guan Yin (Lona)

Faber Drive

• Seven Second Surgery (Universal Republic)

Lara Fabian

• Lara Fabian (Columbia)

Fabolous

• From Nothin' to Somethin' (Def Jam)

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

• Tacos Deluxe (Benchmark)

Face to Face

• Shoot the Moon: the Essential Collection (Antagonist)

Donald Fagen

• Morph the Cat (Reprise)

John Fahey

• Best of the Vanguard Years (Vanguard)
• Various: The Revenge of Blind Joe Death

Mary Fahl

• The Other Side of Time (Sony Classical)

The Faint

• Danse Macabre Remixes (Astralwerks)
• Wet from Birth (Saddle Creek)

Fair to Midland

• The Drawn and Quartered EP (Serjical Strike)

Jad Fair and Jason Willet

• Superfine (Public Eyesore)
• FairMoore (Old Gold)

The Fairburn Royals

• From a Window Way Above (Two Sheds)

Fairgrove

• Good Luck (Montesano)

Fairmont

• Coloured in Memory (Border Community)

Fairport Convention

• Over the Next Hill (Compass)
• The Best of Fairport Convention (20th Century Masters: the Millennium Collection) (20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection)
• Unhalfbricking (Island/Water)

The Fairways

• This is Farewell (Matinee)

Faith & Disease

• Beneath the Trees (Projekt)

Th' Faith Healers

• The Peel Sessions (Ba Da Bing!)

Faith No More

• Feature: Part 4: Heaven 17 to N.W.A. (1981-1988)

Marianne Faithfull

• The Best of Marianne Faithfull (20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection) (20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection)
• Kissin' Time (Virgin)
• Before the Poison (Epitaph/Anti-)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Marianne Faithfull, in collaboration with kindred spirits PJ Harvey and Nick Cave, has created a bleak masterpiece on par with Johnny Cash's final albums.

   
• True: the Collection

Faithless

• Renaissance Presents 3D (Renaissance)
• Outrospective (Kinetic/Arista)
• Concert: 25 April 2007: Webster Hall — New York, NY

Fake Brain

• Department of Our Ways (self-released)

Michael Fakesch

• Dos (!K7)

Faktion

• Faktion (Roadrunner)

Jason Falkner

• Bliss Descending EP (Wreckchord)
• Can You Still Feel?
• Bedtime with the Beatles: a Lullaby Album (Sony Wonder)
• Necessity: the 4-Track Years (spinART)
• Bedtime With the Beatles Part Two (Adrenaline)

Fall Out Boy

• Infinity on High (Island/Fueled by Ramen)

Fall of Serenity

• The Crossfire (Lifeforce)

The Fall

• The Real New Fall LP (formerly Country on the Click) (Action, UK)
• Hex Enduction Hour: Expanded Deluxe Edition (Sanctuary)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  The lavish reissue of the seminal 1982 album by The Fall sounds just as potent today, or perhaps even more so.

   
• 50,000 Fans Can't Be Wrong: 39 Golden Greats (Beggars Banquet)
• Fall Heads Roll (Narnack)
• Reformation Post T.L.C (Narnack/Slogan)

Fancey

• Schmancey (What Are Records?)

Fandango, Duende y Taraf

• Las Tres Orillas del Atlantico (Producciones Alebrije)

Julian Fane

• Special Forces (Planet Mu)
• Our New Quarters (Planet-Mu)

Fanmail

• 2000 (Tooth & Nail)

Bernard Fanning

• Tea & Sympathy (Lost Highway)

Fannypack

• So Stylistic (Tommy Boy)

Fantasia

• Fantasia (J)

Fantastic

• Sun: What a Wonderful Word! EP (Aquatic/Riveria)

Fantastic Plastic Machine

• Beautiful (Emperor Norton)
• Luxury

Fantomas

• Suspended Animation (Ipecac)
• Delirium Cordia (Ipecac)

Far

• Water & Solutions (Re-issue) (Re-issue)

Far Too Jones

• Shame and Her Sister (Aszams)

Donna Fargo

• The Best of Donna Fargo (20th Century Masters - the Millennium Collection) (20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection)

Geoff Farina, Luther Gray, Dan Littleton

• Lanterna: Desert Ocean, Geoff Farina et al: New Salt

Mark Farina

• Ministry of Sound Sessions (Ministry of Sound)
• Mushroom Jazz 5 (Om)
• Air Farina (Om)
• Connect (Om)
• House of Om: Mixed by Mark Farina (Om)

Mary Ann Farley

• My Life of Crime (Powder Burn)

Farma

• Farma (Wishing Tree)

Farmer’s Market

• Surfin’ USSR (Ipecac)

Farrah

• Me Too (LoJinx)
• Moustache (Ark 21)

Jay Farrar

• Terrior Blues (Act/Resist)
• Stone, Steel & Bright Lights (Transmit Sound)
• Sebastopol (Artemis)

Perry Farrell

• Rev (Warner Bros.)
• Feature: Been Caught Healing: An Interview with Perry Farrell

Annette Farrington

• Azure Wonder & Lust (Castle Von Buhler)

Amy Farris

• Anyway (Yep Roc)

Mike Farris

• Salvation in Lights (INO)

Fastbacks

• The Day That Didn't Exist (spinART)

Fastball

• Keep Your Wig On (Rykodisc)

Fat Freddy's Drop

• Based on a True Story (Quango / Kartel)
• Column: Three Nights in France

Fat Joe

• Loyalty (Atlantic)

Fatal Flying Guilloteens

• The Now Hustle for New Diaboliks (Estrus)

Fatalists

• Take the Water (Ear Trumpet)

Fatboy Slim

• The Greatest Hits: Why Try Harder (Astralwerks/EMD)
• Palookaville (Skint/Astralwerks)

Fates Warning

• Awaken the Guardian (Expanded Edition) (Expanded Edition)

Amor Fati

• Love Fate (self-released)

Faultline

• Closer Colder (Thirsty Ear)

Fauna Flash

• Worx: the Remixes (Compost/Defend)

Faunts

• High Expectations/Low Results (Friendly Fire)
• M4 (Friendly Fire)

Faust

• Feature: The Best Re-Issues of 2007

Faux Pas

• Entropy Begins at Home (self-released)

Fauxliage

• Fauxliage (Nettwerk)

Favez

• Gentlemen Start Your Engines (Doghouse)
• From Lausanne, Switzerland (Doghouse)

Favourite Sons

• Down Beside Your Beauty (Vice)

Fayssoux

• Early (Red Beet)

Faze Action

• Broad Souls (Bar De Lune)

Fc Kahuna

• Machine Says Yes (Nettwerk America/City Rockers)

Fear Before the March of Flames

• The Always Open Mouth (Equal Vision)

Fear Factory

• Concrete (Roadrunner)

Fear of Commitment

• Paper Dolls and Paper Plates (Dren)

The Fearless Freep

• And Fall Is How You Sleep (Mag Wheel)

Feathergun

• Music to Wash To (Soundwidth)

Feathermerchants

• Last Man on Earth (Innocent 12 St.)

  Featured Article

  

  Soothing and powerful, this New York group makes sweeping and sometimes majestic pop songs with all the softness and delicate touches of a feather.

   

Feathers

• Synchromy (Hometapes)

The Features

• The Beginning (self-released)
• Exhibit A (Universal)
• The Beginning EP (Universal)

Feaze

• Morning Wood (Mud)

Federation

• It's Whateva (Reprise)

  Featured Article

  

  A nonstop drunken-master thizz-dance that careens from post-crunk, to R&B Dramamine, to screamo-rock, to gospel, to some scatterbrained hybrid of all these, for eighty short minutes.

   

Federation X

• Rally Day (Estrus)

Feeder

• Comfort in Sound (Echo/Republic/Universal)
• Yesterday Went Too Soon (Elektra)

Feel

• Feel (Curb)

The Feelies

• Feature: Taking It Slow: An Interview with Glenn Mercer of the Feelies

The Feeling

• Four Stops and Home EP (Interscope)
• Twelve Stops and Home (Cherrytree)

Thomas Fehlmann

• Lowflow (Plug Research)
• Honigpumpe (Kompakt)

Feist

• Open Season (Cherry Tree/Interscope)
• Let It Die (Cherry Tree/Interscope)
• The Reminder (Cherrytree/Interscope)

  Featured Article

  

  Whether listeners take the plunge with Feist into her emotional depths is almost immaterial: The Reminder is an exceptional album that should be experienced solely on the merits its stunning musicality.

   
• News: Canadian singer Feist's success has been as easy as ‘1234'
• News: Canadian singer-guitarist is one cool throwback

Mark Feldman

• What Exit (ECM)

The Felice Brothers

• The Felice Brothers (Team Love)

Christine Fellows

• 2 Little Birds (Endearing)
• Nevertheless (Six Shooter)

Felt

• Felt, Vol. 2: a Tribute to Lisa Bonet (Rhymesayers)

FemBots

• The City (Paper Bag Records)

Fembots

• Small Town Murder Scene (Paper Bag)

Fennesz

• Venice (Touch)
• Endless Summer (Editions Mego)
• Feature: The Best Re-Issues of 2007
• Hotel Paral.lel (Editions Mego)

Fennesz and Sakamoto

• Cendre (Touch)

Fergie

• The Dutchess (will.i.am Music Group/A&M/Interscope)

Maynard Ferguson

• ChameleonConquistador (Sony)
• On a High Note: The Best of the Concord Jazz Recordings (Concord Jazz)

Fern Knight

• Fern Knight (VHF Records)

Fernando

• Dreams of the Sun and Sky (Domingo)

Ferocious Eagle

• The Sea Anemone Inside of Me Is Mighty (54-40 or Fight)

Luc Ferrari

• Son Mémorisé (Sub Rosa)
• Didascalies (Sub Rosa)

Benjy Ferree

• Leaving the Nest (Domino)

Rachelle Ferrell

• Live at Montreux 91-97 (Blue Note)
• Individuality (Can I Be Me?) (Can I Be Me?)

Ibrahim Ferrer

• Buenos Hermanos (Nonesuch)
• Mi Sueño (World Circuit)

Pedro Luis Ferrer

• Natural (Escondida)
• Feature: East and West: World Music in 2006

Melissa Ferrick

• News: Don't call Melissa Ferrick a folkie - she's a rocker

Bryan Ferry

• Frantic (Virgin)
• Dylanesque (Virgin)

Feu Thérèse

• Feu Thérèse (Constellation)
• Ça Va Cogner (Constellation)

The Fever

• In the City of Sleep (Kemado)
• Pink on Pink EP (Kemado)
• Red Bedroom (Kemado)

Feverdreams

• Words and Music (Fitual)

Ffa Coffi Pawb

• Am Byth (Placid Casual/Empryrean)

Fiamma Fumana

• Onda (Omnium)

Lupe Fiasco

• Feature: Best Hip-Hop of 2006
• Food and Liquor (Atlantic)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  On his debut album, a rapping Rumpelstiltskin spins style, social commentary, and skateboarding into hip-hop gold.

   
• Lupe Fiasco's the Cool (Atlantic)

Fiction Plane

• Everything Will Never Be OK (MCA)
• News: Sting's son hitches a ride with the Police on year's biggest rock tour

Fidgital

• Departure (Fidgital)

Field Mob

• 613: Ashy to Classy (MCA)

Field Music

• Tones of Town (Memphis Industries)
• Feature: Fingers Crossed: An Interview With Field Music
• Field Music (Memphis Industries)

Field Notes

• Color of Sunshine (Woodson Lateral)

The Field

• From Here We Go Sublime (Kompakt)
• Feature: The Best Electronica of 2007

Fields

• Everything Last Winter (Atlantic)
• Feature: Pastures of Plenty: An Interview with Fields

Scott Fields Ensemble

• Mamet (Delmark)

Fieldy's Dreams

• Rock 'n' Roll Gangster (Epic/Sony)

The Fiery Furnaces

• Concert: 12 December 2007: Lee’s Palace — Toronto, Ontario

The Fiery Furnaces

• Bitter Tea (Fat Possum)
• Gallowbird's Bark (Sanctuary/Rough Trade America)
• Rehearsing My Choir (Rough Trade)
• Blueberry Boat (Rough Trade)
• EP (Rough Trade)
• Widow City (Thrill Jockey)
• News: The Fiery Furnaces turn user-friendly

Fifth Dimension

• 5th Dimension: Up, Up and Away/The Magic Garden

  Featured Article

  

  Fortunately, the group and its manager discovered two of America’s best songwriters at the beginning of their careers: Jimmy Webb and Laura Nyro, as well as the now legendary producer Bones Howe.

   

Fifths of Seven

• Spry from Bitter Anise Folds (DSA)

The Figgs

• Follow Jean Through the Sea (Gern Blandsten)

Marco Figueira

• Brazilliance (Blue Toucan)

Figurines

• When the Deer Wore Blue (Control Group)

Fila Brazillia

• Jump Leads (Twentythree)

Filastine

• Burn It (Soot)

File Underwater

• Flu'id (Baby Factory)

Filkoe

• Lost Zoo Keys and the Animal Spirits that Haunt Them (Endemik)

Film School

• Brilliant Career (Me Too!)
• Film School (Beggars Banquet)
• Hideout (Beggar's Banquet)

Filmic

• Peacock People: Lectures Laid By Borrowed Branch (Self Released)

Filthy Thieving Bastards

• I’m a Son of a Gun (BYO)

Fin Fang Foom

• Texture, Structure, and the Condition of Moods (Lovitt)

The Finals

• Plan Your Getaway (Immortal)

Etran Finatawa

• Desert Crossroads (Riverboat)

The Finches

• Six Songs EP (Dulci-I-Tone/Ulrike)
• Human Like A House (Dulc-I-Tone)

Fine China

• When the World Sings (Tooth & Nail)
• The Jaws of Life (Common Wall Media)

Thee Fine Lines

• Set You Straight (Licorice Tree)

Peter Finger

• Open Strings

The Finishing School

• Destination Girl (The Telegraph Company)

Fink

• Distance And Time (Ninja Tune)

The Finkers

• Stance (Popboomerang)

Jeff Finlin

• Somewhere South of Wonder (Bent Wheel)
• Epinonymous (Bent Wheel)
• Angels in Disguise (Rykodisc)

The Finn Brothers

• Everyone Is Here (Nettwerk)

Liam Finn

• News: ‘Lightning' strikes for son of Crowded House's Neil Finn

Neil Finn

• One Nil (EMI Australia)
• 7 Worlds Collide (Nettwerk)

The Fire Apes

• Central Park Carousel (Kool Kat Musik)

Fire Engines

• Feature: Fire Engines: Hungry Beat

The Fire Show

• Saint the Fire Show (Perishable)

The Fire Theft

• The Fire Theft (Rykodisc)

Fire on Fire

• 5 Song EP (Young God)

The Firebird Suite / the Firebird Project

• Archives 1996-1998 (Lucid)

Firehouse

• Bring 'Em Out "Live" (Spitfire)

Firewater

• The Man on the Burning Tightrope (Jetset)
• Songs We Should Have Written (Jet Set)
• Psychopharmacology (Jetset)
• The Golden Hour (Bloodshot)
• Feature: Tod A of Firewater

First Grade Crush

• It's Not You, It's Me (Jump Up!)

Joe Firstman

• The War of Women (Atlantic)

Fischerspooner

• Odyssey (Capitol/EMI)
• #1 (Capitol)

Dave Fischoff

• The Crawl (Secretly Canadian)

Fishbone

• Truth and Soul (Columbia)
• Still Stuck in Your Throat (Sound in Color)

Fishbone (and the Familyhood Nextperience)

• The Psychotic Friends Nuttwerx (and the Familyhood Nextperience)

Fisher

• True North (Farmclub.com/Interscope)

Jeremy Fisher

• Goodbye Blue Monday (Wind-up)

Steve Fisk

• 999 Levels of Undo (Sub Pop)

Tim Fite

• Gone Ain't Gone (Anti-)
• Fair Ain't Fair (Anti-)

Ella Fitzgerald

• Rhythm Is My Business
• Cocktail Hour (Columbia River Entertainment Group)
• Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book (Verve)
• Ella Fitzgerald: The Very Best of the Cole Porter Songbook
• Love Letters from Ella (Concord)
• Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas (Capitol)

Five

• Kingsize (BMG Entertainment International)

The 5 Browns

• No Boundaries (RCA Red Seal/Sony BMG Masterworks)

Five Deez

• Kinkynasti (!K7)

Five O'Clock Heroes

• Bend to the Breaks (Glaze/High Wire)

Five Times August

• Brighter Side (SPM)

Five for Fighting

• The Battle for Everything (Aware/Columbia)
• America Town (Aware/Columbia)

Five-eight

• The Good Nurse (Deep Elm)

Fiver

• Here It Comes (Devil in the Woods/Future Farmer)
• Let It All Fall Down (Devil in the Woods)
• Strings for Satellites (Devil in the Woods)

Fixx

• The Best of Fixx: the Millennium Collection (MCA)

Flame Shark

• Midnight on Pearl Beach (Scrubbrush)

The Flamin' Groovies

• Bust Out at Full Speed: The Sire Years (DBK Works)

The Flaming Lips

• At War with the Mystics (Warner Bros.)
• Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner Bros.)

Flaming Sideburns

• Sky Pilots (Jetset)

The Flaming Sideburns

• The Flaming Sideburns Save Rock 'N' Roll (Jetset)

Flanger

• Midnight Sound (N Tone)
• Inner Space/Outer Space (Ninja Tune)
• Nuclear Jazz: Templates/Midnight Sound (Nonplace)

Flare

• Hung (Le Grand Magistery)
• Definitive (Mother West)

Flat Duo Jets

• Two Headed Cow (Chicken Ranch)

Flat Earth Society

• ISMS (Ipecac)

The Flatlanders

• Wheels of Fortune (New West)
• Now Again (New West)
• Live '72 (New West)

The Flatmates

• Love and Death (Clairecords)

Flatt & Scruggs

• The Complete Mercury Recordings (Mercury/Universal Chronicles)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  This recording is proof that the tandem was one of the cornerstones of "country" bluegrass music.

   
• Foggy Mountain JamboreeFoggy Mountain Gospel (Sony/Legacy)

Flavor Flav

• News: Flavor Flav is serious about his new sitcom, 'Under One Roof'

Béla Fleck

• Crossing the Tracks (Rounder)
• The Hidden Land (Columbia)
• Perpetual Motion (Sony Classical)
• Live at the Quick (Columbia)
• Little Worlds (Special Edition) (Special Edition)
• Outbound (Columbia)

Fleet Foxes

• Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  The boys' voices rarely go where you'd expect, but upon even one play-through, you can't imagine them going anywhere else.

   

Fleetwood Mac

• Men of the World: the Early Years (Sanctuary)

B. Fleischmann

• The Humbucking Coil (Morr Music)

The Flesh

• The Flesh (Gern Blandsten)

The Fleshies

• Scrape the Walls (Alternative Tentacles)

The Fleshtones

• Do You Swing? (Yep Roc)
• Beachhead (Yep Roc)
• Take a Good Look (Yep Roc)
• News: Garage-rock vets The Fleshtones are getting another good look

The Fletcher Pratt

• Nine By Nine

Flickerstick

• Welcoming Home the Astronauts (Epic/Sony)
• Causing a Catastrophe - Live (226)

The Flight Orchestra

• The Military of Fatima (Breathing Room)

Flight of the Conchords

• Flight of the Conchords (Sub Pop)
• Concert: 5 May 2008: The Tower Theater — Philadelphia, PA

Flim

• Helio (Tomlab)

Flobots

• Fight With Tools (Universal Republic)

Floetry

• Floetic (DreamWorks)
• Flo'Ology (Geffen)

Flogging Molly

• Within a Mile of Home (Side One Dummy)
• Float (Side One Dummy)

Floraline

• Floraline

The Flow

• Dada (self-released)

The Flower Machine

• Chalk Dust Dream of the Tea Cozy Mitten Company (Microindie)

Flowers Forever

• Flowers Forever (Team Love)

Danny Flowers

• Tools for the Soul (Brash)

Floydhead

• The Floydian Propulsion Project: the Artistic Electronica of Pink Floyd (3rd Edition) (3rd Edition)

Fluid Ounces

• In the New Old Fashioned Way
• The Whole Shebang (Vacant Cage)

Fluke

• Puppy (One Little Indian)
• Progressive History X (Astralwerks)

Flunk

• For Sleepyheads Only (Guidance Recordings)
• Morning Star (Kriztal)

Fluorescent Grey

• Lying on the Floor Mingling with God in a Tijuana Motel Room Next Door to a Veterinary Supply Store (Isolate)

Flux Information Sciences

• Private/Public

The Fly Seville

• Carousel

Flybanger

• Headtrip to Nowhere (Columbia)

Flying

• Faces of the Night (Menlo Park)

Flying Burrito Brothers

• Sin City: the Very Best of the Flying Burrito Brothers (A&M)

The Flying Burrito Brothers

• The Best of the Flying Burrito Brothers (A&M)

Flying Lotus

• Los Angeles (Warp)

Flying Saucer Attack

• Mirror (Drag City)

Foals

• Antidotes (Sub Pop)

Fog

• Hummer EP (Ninja Tune)
• Ditherer (Lex)

John Fogerty

• Déjà Vu All Over Again (Geffen)
• News: A 'Revival' for Creedence Clearwater's John Fogerty
• Revival (Fantasy)
• News: John Fogerty is having a revival with that CCR sound

Fognode

• Beat Hollow (Infrosound Collective)

Fold Zandura

• Ultraforever (BEC)

Ben Folds

• Songs for Silverman (Epic)
• Rockin' the Suburbs (Epic)
• Ben Folds Live (Epic)

Sue Foley

• Love Comin' Down (Shanachie)

The Folk Implosion

• The New Folk Implosion (imusic/BMG)

Folklore

• The Ghost of H.W. Beaverman (bumbleBEAR)

Follow the Train

• The Great Disturbance (Debauchery)

Fonda

• The Strange and the Familiar

Fontanelle

• F
• Fontanelle (Kranky)
• Style Drift (Kranky)

Foo Fighters

• Skin and Bones (RCA)
• In Your Honor (RCA)
• One By One (RCA)
• Feature: Foo Fighters: The Colour and the Shape
• Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace (RCA)
• News: Foo Fighters are Grammy darlings, arena headliners

Food

• Forever Is a Dream (Fallout)
• Molecular Gastronomy (Rune Grammofon)

Food for Animals

• Belly (Hoss)
• Belly (Hoss)

  Featured Article

  

  This Baltimore trio's long-awaited debut is so glitchy, it's likely to disintegrate at a moment's notice.

   

Dredd Foole

• Daze on the Mounts (Family Vineyard)

Foot Foot

• Trumpet (Oedipus)

For Against

• Echelons (Words on Music)
• December (Words on Music)
• Shade Side Sunny Side (Words on Music)

The For Carnation

• The For Carnation (Touch and Go)
• Promised Works (Touch and Go)

For Stars

• ...It Falls Apart (Future Farmer)

For the Fallen Dreams

• Changes (Rise)

Steve Forbert

• Any Old Time: Songs of Jimmie Rodgers (Koch)
• Rock While I Can Rock: the Geffen Years (Geffen/UME)

David Ford

• Songs for the Road (Original Signal)

Robben Ford

• Supernatural (Blue Thumb)

T-Model Ford

• Bad Man (Fat Possum)

Julia Fordham

• That's Life (Vanguard)

The Forecast

• In the Shadow of Two Gunmen (Victory)
• Late Night Conversations (Victory)

Foreign Born

• On the Wing Now (Dim Mak)

The Foreign Exchange

• Connected (BBE)

Foreign Islands

• Restart Now! (Deaf Dumb & Blind)

Jon Foreman

• Fall & Winter (Credential/Lowercase People)

Forest

• Forest (BGO/Phantom)

Foreverinmotion

• The Beautiful Unknown (One Eleven)

Forget Cassettes

• Salt (Theory 8)

Form of Rocket

• Men (Sick Room)

The Format

• Dog Problems (The Vanity Label)

Juan Formell y Los Van Van

• Various: Cuban Essentials

The Forms

• Icarus (Threespheres)
• The Forms (Rebel Group)

Jason Forrest

• Shamelessly Exciting (Sonig)

Forro in the Dark

• Bonfires of São João (Nublu Records)
• Asa Branca (Nublu)
• Feature: Going Balloon: An Interview with Forro in the Dark

Robert Forster

• The Evangelist (Yep Roc)

Robert Forster and Grant McLennan

• Intermission: The Best of the Solo Recordings 1990-1997 (Beggars Banquet)

Fort Knox Five

• Reminted (Fort Knox)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  That Fort Knox Five can wrap so many sounds and styles into such a consistent, dancefloor-friendly package shows not only serious instrumental and production skills, but a remarkable consistency of vision.

   

John Forté

• I, John (Transparent Music)

Anat Fort

• A Long Story (ECM)

Chris Fortier

• As long as the Moment Exists (EQ)

Sonny Fortune

• You and the Night and the Music (18th and Vine)

The Forty-Fives

• High Life High Volume (Yep Roc)

Forty5south

• We're Country So We Can (Tilo Entertainment)

Jeffrey Foskett

• Stars in the Sand (The Pop Collective)

Jen Foster

• Everybody's Girl (American Garage/RT Entertainment)

Josephine Foster

• A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (Locust)

Radney Foster

• This World We Live In (Dualtone)
• Another Way to Go (Dualtone)
• Are You Ready for the Big Show? (Purespunk/Dualtone)

Jeffrey Foucault

• Ghost Repeater (Signature Sounds)

The Foundry Field Recordings

• Fallout Stations (Emergency Umbrella)

Fountains of Wayne

• Welcome Interstate Managers (S-Curve/Virgin)
• Welcome Interstate Managers (S-Curve/Virgin)
• Utopia Parkway
• Out of State Plates (Virgin)
• Feature: Fountains of Wayne: Too Smart to Be a Rock Band, Too Smart to Be Anything Else
• Traffic and Weather (Virgin)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  A messy, dark, and defiantly askew center exists at the core of the candy-coated pop-sweetness of Fountains of Wayne's songs -- which is what makes them such a recognizable take on American culture at its twisted best.

   
• News: Not only humor gushes from Fountains of Wayne
• Feature: Fountains of Pain

The Four Corners

• Say You're a Scream

Four Hours Sleep

• Love Specifics (Popboomerang)

Four Letter Lie

• Let Your Body Take Over (Victory Records)

Four Tet

• DJ Kicks (!K7)
• Remixes (Domino)
• Everything Ecstatic (Domino)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Everyone's favourite purveyor of blissful beats has gone ballistic, and the smoking gun suits him -- when you're armed with as much talent as Hebden, you can make your own rules.

   
• Pause (Domino)
• Rounds (Domino)
• Ringer (Domino)

Four Volts

• Triple Your Workforce (Kanine)

Fourth of July

• Fourth of July on the Plains (Range Life)

Kim Fowley

• Adventures in Dreamland (Weed)

Mimi Fox

• Perpetually Hip (Favored Nations Cool)

Foxglove Hunt

• Stop Heartbeat (Common Wall)

Freddie Foxx / Bumpy Knuckles

• The Konexion (BBE/Rapster)

Foxy Brown

• Brooklyn's Don Diva (Black Rose Entertainment/Koch)

Foxy Shazam

• Introducing Foxy Shazam (Ferret)
• News: With 'Introducing,' Foxy Shazam cleverly charges ahead

Fra Lippo Lippi

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