Sunday, January 1 1995
Joy Electric: Unelectric
Ronnie Martin is one of the most recognizable and intriguing personalities in the alternative Christian music scene. An indefatigable worker, Martin produces a myriad of…
judithstar*: fossils
This may be a first. Here I am, loving a group whose songs are not only featured on MTV’s silly sex soap, Undressed, but who…
The Januaries: self-titled
Just when you thought that whole neo-‘60s movement was over for a while in pop music, along come The Januaries with their fluid blend of…
Ja Rule: Pain Is Love
Whoever said gangsta rap was dead had better not tell Ja Rule, whose 2001 CD Pain Is Love is a relentless monument to the beleaguered…
Johnny Bronco: Blind Ambition
God bless those bands on mp3.com, trying to make it or break it in the music world. All those testimonials on the site showing how…
Jennyanykind: I Need You
It seems almost too early in The Beta Band’s career for them to be a source of derivation, a way to help classify other bands.…
Journey: Arrival
Believe it or not, there was once a time when bands made real, memorable albums as opposed to a marketing campaign and 10 songs to…
Tomas Jirku: Variants
Montreal’s Alien8 Records, fine purveyors of esoteric experimental noisemakers such as Merzbow and Aube, have branched out with Tomas Jirku. A dub-influenced sound maker from…
Jebediah: Of Someday Shambles
Okay, so it’s easy to peg these guys as Jimmy Eat World soundalikes and leave it at that, but that’s a mistake. Sure, they do…
Marc Johnson and Eric Longsworth: If Trees Could Fly
I have a penchant for sparse jazz. Two or three musicians, that’s all…a couple acoustic instruments…and a minimum of direction and lots of improv. Ahh…music…
Etta James, Heart of a Woman
Etta James has spent the last few years denying her rhythm and blues roots by experimenting with albums centered on standards and jazz classics. The…
Lonnie Johnson: The Unsung Blues Legend
For all the major influence he had in jazz and blues, little is known about Lonnie Johnson. What is known of his personal history might…
Joe Jackson: Summer In The City: Live in New York
God, I love this man’s music. After over a decade of varying success in the pop world, Joe Jackson found himself tired of throwing himself…
Jolie & The Wanted: self-titled
Here’s an album that could be a carbon copy of Lila McCann’s Complete album. It seems like the same album, as the similarities are so…
The Jigsaw Seen: Zenith
When it comes to beautiful women, I was always partial to the look of ‘60s icon, Twiggy. Sure, she was gorgeous, but it was not…
Josie: Unkunvenshunal Girl
Don’t let the album title fool you. There’s very little that’s not conventional about Unkunvenshunal Girl. Josie makes inoffensive girl-pop masked in a sort of…
Billy Joel: 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert
In his 1989 hit single, “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Billy Joel attempted to catalogue a half-century of people and events in under four minutes…
Jimmy Johnson: Pepper’s Hangout
Chicago’s West Side brought a number of blues players to the attention of the world, such as Eddy Clearwater and Magic Sam. The West Side…
Jimmy Eat World: Singles
For all of their underground bravado, Jimmy Eat World (arguably the worst band name ever) write exceedingly mainstream tunes dipped in just enough sincerity, mild…
Iron Maiden: Brave New World
Brave New World is Iron Maiden’s first Bruce-fronted studio album in eight years, and heralds the return of former frontman Bruce Dickinson who left the…
