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Life After Nirvana [2]
Even if everything has changed, music is as good now as it was a decade ago.
— Noel Murray, NASHVILLE SCENE
 
Staying Power [3]
Nashville needs to stop waiting for the mythical pop success and celebrate its already fertile music scene.
— Michael McCall, NASHVILLE SCENE
 
What Comes Around [4]
The unpredictable highs and lows of country music in the '90s.
— Beverly Keel, NASHVILLE SCENE
 
Soundbites [5]
Music magazine mayhem.
— Stephen Seigel, TUCSON WEEKLY
 

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Un Dios [6]
Pianist Chucho Valdéz fronts the storm of Afro-Cuban jazz thundering through the United States.
— Raoul Hernandez, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
 
Life on Planet Groove [7]
Former James Brown sax man has funky good time playing.
— Mark Jordan, MEMPHIS FLYER
 
Celtic Maverick [8]
Mary Jane Lamond is determined to keep the past alive, but she isn't a cultural throwback.
— Dave Irwin, TUCSON WEEKLY
 

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Turn Up That Noise! [9]
Reviews of a pair of new tribute albums.
— MEMPHIS FLYER
 
Record Reviews [10]
Recent reissues.
— AUSTIN CHRONICLE
 
Now What? [13]
If you go gaga over the sultry smoothness of a symphonic glissando, just wait till you experience our transitions to cool and useful music links on the Web.
— WEEKLY WIRE
 

t least the grunge scene shoved the arrogant, joyless Brit-poppers off of MTV for awhile, so that's one good thing about the last 10 years in music.

In the same time, the Nashville rock community has grown stronger in every way: there's more talent, more diversity, and more means of support for performers to sustain a living from their craft.

Ten years ago, just four years after The New York Times trumpeted the "Death of the Country Sound" in a front-page story, the country music industry entered what could now be called the good old days.

Plus, profiles of Chucho Valdéz, Maceo Parker, and Mary Jane Lamond, a host of reissues, and more.

And our Birthday Picks are about Christian rockers and New Orleans jazz.

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Rhythm & Views [11]

• "The Postpunk Chronicles," Volumes 1-3
• Robert Lockwood Jr.
• Jawbox

Rocking God's House
With more rock 'n' roll, less heavenly praise, and facing personal, social, and worldly issues, Christian musicians encounter criticism from the gospel music industry.
— Michael McCall, NASHVILLE SCENE
 
Sensational Sets
New Orleans jazz recorded by the Atlantic label from the mid-50s to the early '60s has been re-released in a beautiful boxed set called "The Atlantic New Orleans Jazz Sessions."
— Geraldine Wyckoff, GAMBIT WEEKLY
 

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