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Clash Calling [2]
The Clash's godfather of punk, Joe Strummer, re-emerges with an album that's a mix of techno, rock, and reggae.
— Matt Ashare, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
 
Breaking The Sound Barrier [3]
Stereolab's sound is unique the world over, and that's just how the band likes it.
— Stephen Seigel, TUCSON WEEKLY
 
President Spaghetti [4]
Supersuckers want to rock your world for the better.
— Ashley Fantz, MEMPHIS FLYER
 

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Backward Glances [5]
New records from Dolly Parton, Alan Jackson, and LeAnn Rimes all draw on country music's past.
— Michael McCall, NASHVILLE SCENE
 
He Did It All [6]
Johnny Otis's three-CD retrospective seems like small potatoes for a guy who has jammed with Count Basie, recorded with Big Mama Throton, and worked as a pigeon farmer.
— Bill Kisliuk, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
 
Ripe With Age [7]
After decades of making music, jazz pianists Jay McShann and Horace Silver continue to thrive.
— Ron Wynn, NASHVILLE SCENE
 
Turn Up That Noise! [8]
Willie Mitchell. Alex De Grassi.
— MEMPHIS FLYER
 
Rhythm and Views [9]
Lauding the latest Ramones compilation.
— Ron Bally, TUCSON WEEKLY
 
Over the "Rainbow" [10]
Now that Mariah Carey's lost her vision of love, she says it's time for her to "represent."
— Alex Pappademas, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
 
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
 

oe Strummer, once part of The Clash, hasn't been biding his time since that group broke up, but he hasn't been burning down the music charts either. Strummer's new album downplays punk's usual distorted electric guitar, thrashing backbeats, and angry, confrontational lyrics in favor of strummed acoustic guitars, haunting atmospheres and beaten poetry.

Few bands inspire a scramble for new defining terms, but England's Stereolab, while originally highly influenced by Krautrock progenitors like Can, has, in recent years, evolved enough for their own genre tag: "retro-futurism."

Who says people aren't buying traditional country music? Not country fans, who responded overwhelmingly to albums of classic songs by LeAnn Rimes and Alan Jackson. And Dolly Parton recently released her best album in 20 years, a collection of bluegrass tunes.

Plus, Supersuckers, Johnny Otis, and more.

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Boston Phoenix CD Reviews [11]

• Pet Shop Boys
• Nobukazu Takemura
• The Hippos
• Joe Louis Walker
• Máire Brennan
• Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• One People
• Brokeback

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