Subject: Kurt Weill

• A whiff of Weimar-era Berlin...

  November 10, 2006

• RECORDINGS

  November 3, 1994

• Recordings

  February 20, 1997

• Copy Cats

  In the tired realm of tribute albums, imitation is the sincerest form of flatulence

  December 18, 1997

• Calendar for the week

  January 29, 1998

• Swing Set

  New releases by Brian Setzer and Squirrel Nut Zippers test the staying power of the neo-swing movement

  July 30, 1998

• The Dresden Dolls

  There is a Santa Claus

  April 13, 2006

• Marah

  February 7, 2008

• The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

  By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" and "Anthony's Song (Movin' Out)" remain priceless snapshots of Annie Hall-era NYC, the title track bares real teeth, and the Kenny Chesney fave "Only the Go

  December 28, 2008

• Mirah meets Modified

  April 9, 2009

• Mirah

  April 9, 2009

• Faun Fables

  August 14, 2008

• Thugs Life

  Those who can

  May 31, 2007

• Barbez

  Moody Teutonic stuff

  September 15, 2005

• Poe Lou

  Lou Reed gets to interpret Edgar Allan Poe. He's excited.

  June 19, 2003

• Thalia Zedek

  Been Here and Gone (Matador)

  October 25, 2001

• Fair to Middlin'

  State fair means music -- and the most toothless people you'll ever see

  October 5, 2000

• Night & Day

  December 31, 1998 - January 6, 1999

  December 31, 1998