Music

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews The Trouble With Being Myself, the new album from Macy Gray.

Rock critic Ken Tucker concludes his look at the current pop-rock bands, with a look at the Brooklyn-based quartet High Strung. Their debut CD is These Are Good Times.

Music Critic Milo Miles reviews the new album by Mariza.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Welcome Interstate Managers the new CD by Fountains of Wayne.

Music critic Milo Miles reviews Donnie's The Colored Section, and A Woman Like Me, the new album by Bettye Lavette.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews The Party’s Over by the Smoking Popes which they recorded in 1998 just before the band broke up. It's just been released.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Blowing In From Chicago, a new re-issue from tenor saxophonists Clifford Jordan and John Gilmore.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews new albums from The Buzzcocks and Paul Weller, the frontman from the band The Jam. The album titles are Buzzcocks and Illumination.

Critic Milo Miles reviews two new DVDs which document the history of hip-hop: Charlie Ahern's feature Wild Style from 1982, and Doug Pray's documentary Scratch from 2001.

He reviews Crazy: The Demo Sessions (Sugar Hill records), a collection of songs Willie Nelson wrote and recorded between 1960 and 1966, hoping to sell them to the big stars of the country era.