Andy Downing

Sage Francis cut his teeth in underground poetry slams, so it's no surprise that his rhymes overflow with vivid imagery. In a bouncy cadence that's part Baptist preacher and part...

The latest from Antony, the peroxide-haired man-child with the golden voice, opens in heart-wrenching fashion, the singer intoning, "I hope there is someone who will take care of me when...

The first two Drive-By Truckers records, newly reissued, offer few surprises other than how advanced the group was musically -- even in its formative stages. "Gangstabilly," the Truckers' debut, is...

Mastadon's second full-length, "Leviathan," is a mix of technical proficiency and high concept -- the record takes inspiration from Herman Melville's "Moby Dick." As such, the album is loaded with...

Since the Stone Roses imploded in the early '90s, Ian Brown has increasingly filled the role of the wandering mystic. "Solarized," continues this trend -- the earthy album is built...

Video game music has come a long way from the rhythmic bleeps and bloops of vintage arcade stand-ups such as "Asteroids." Now, with the likes of "Madden NFL 2005" posting...

Pop No. 9 Micro-Films (Locust Music) That Joe Takayuki took the name for his recording project from a song on the Beatles' "White Album" says volumes about his intentions. Like...

The Blood Brothers have always embraced catharsis, but when they found last year's manic throat-shredder "... Burn, Piano Island, Burn" nearly impossible to perform on a nightly basis, the band...

The Philadelphia upstarts in Silvertide already sound like road-tested veterans of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle on their debut effort, "Show & Tell." The twin guitars of Nick Perri and...

Norman Cook, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim, is still a superstar disc jockey in his native England. But in the States he is still best known for a string of late-'90s hits...