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• 107 CD Review: Dr. John - Right Place, Right Time: Live at Tipitina's 1989

  The Night Tripper... New Orleans... Tipitina's... Mardi Gras... what a combination!! So why isn't it a better record?

  Review in Music — by John Owen — on Apr 01, 2006

• 106 CD Review: Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food

  Rhino reissues the Heads' second album in a regrettable but fun DualDisc format and 5.1 mix that affirms just how good they really were.

  Review in Music — by John Owen — on Mar 17, 2006

• 105 CD Review: Cheap Trick - Dream Police

  Decently remastered with a few bonus tracks, but the main attraction is the songwriting and hijinks on Cheap Trick's last really good studio album.

  Review in Music — by John Owen — on Mar 14, 2006

• 104 African Music Legend Ali Farka Touré Has Died

  I have been fumbling with a proper obituary for the man for an hour now.

  News in Music — by John Owen — on Mar 07, 2006

• 103 CD Review: Pansy Division - The Essential Pansy Division

  A solid and entertaining retrospective from the pioneers of queercore, with sharp lyrics, catchy hooks, and approximately 15 million dick jokes.

  Review in Music — by John Owen — on Mar 02, 2006

• 102 CD Review: Tres Chicas - Bloom, Red & The Ordinary Girl

  A comfortable, laid-back, and completely unpretentious alternative country album by three friends and long-time veterans of the North Carolina indie music scene.

  Review in Music — by John Owen — on Mar 02, 2006

• 101 CD Review: Various Artists - Heartworn Highways

  The earliest recordings of Steve Earle, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, John Hiatt, and others feature in this newly collected 1975-76 soundtrack to the alt-country revolution.

  Review in Music — by John Owen — on Mar 01, 2006

• 100 CD Review: Hank Williams III - Straight To Hell

  A feckless, reckless, angry and magnificently self-indulgent old school country record from country music's most famous grandson.

  Review in Music — by John Owen — on Feb 22, 2006

• 99 Sly and the Family Stone May Perform at Grammys

  Reclusive funk icon Sly Stone may be getting the band back together again - the original band - for the first time since 1971.

  News in Music — by John Owen — on Jan 27, 2006

• 98 CD Review: The Beatings - Holding On to Hand Grenades

  An impressively self-assured sophomore effort from the New England indie rockers. I bet you they won't play this on the radio, but they should.

  Review in Music — by John Owen — on Jan 20, 2006