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Swede dreams 
It would have been hard to predict the impact that Swedish artists like the Cardigans and Robyn have had in the US in 1997.
Michael Freedberg
Quiet riots
Dyke rock may not be a contender for Next Big Thing status, but this new wave from the still-fertile Northwest a pleasure to discover.
Joan Anderman
Going up
There's a big misconception about Boston's The Elevator Drops: everyone seems to think it's their goal to be lunatics and to freak people out. That's only partly true.
Matt Ashare
Geezers
There's a thin line between classic rock and oldies; and the three acts who hit Boston's Orpheum recently all tried to land on the right side.
Brett Milano
Folk hero
Bono joins Steve Earle, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Van Morrison, John Mellencamp, and others on a new tribute to Jimmie Rodgers.
Franklin Soults
The third story
A four-CD compilation documents the history of one of the jazz labels that dominated the '50s and early '60s,
Richard C. Walls
The soft and the loud
First it was the Story, then Jonatha Brooke and the Story. Now it's just plain Jonatha Brooke.
Brett Milano
So much to do . . .
Sixty-nine-year-old R&B dynamo Ruth Brown can warm up any audience.
Ted Drozdowski
Scary sounds
How to program the ultimate Halloween party tape.
Christopher Muther
HMS Watt
Mike Watt's new CD is filled with memories of the bassist's days discovering punk with the Minutemen.
Ted Drozdowski
Busy body
With three '97 albums already on the racks, jazz guitarist Joe Morris celebrates the release of two more.
Ed Hazell
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