The Verve (Musical Group)

The Mighty Quins: Tegan and Sara at Marquee Theatre on April 28

Ambulance LTD

New English EP
(TVT)

Richard Ashcroft

Human Conditions (Hut/Virgin)

Standards and Practices

A guided tour of the best releases across the musical spectrum

Sax Relief

Gumbo rewrites the tax code with the latest batch of jazz, blues and heritage releases

Revved-Up Rock

The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club rides roughshod over today's guitar gods

Brooklyn Knights

Medeski Martin and Wood's hip-hop jazz finds the audience it deserves

Alive and Kicking

Despite being entombed in the recent PBS series, Gumbo shows why jazz is very much alive and well with a fine batch of new releases

Critical Mass 2000

Our panel of writers offer up their takes on the top discs of Y2K

Future Shock

Gumbo gazes into his crystal ball and tells us what to expect in jazz, blues and heritage as we approach 2001

He Got Rhythm

Ken Burns wants you to know why Jazz is America's music

Hey, Joe!

Gumbo lines up the most wanted in jazz, blues and heritage

Cosmic Stew

Gumbo finds some eerie connections in the latest jazz, blues and heritage releases

Shadow Dancing

After a triumphant Valley appearance and a clutch of collaborative projects, DJ Shadow gets set to step back out on his own

Fourth Coming

Gumbo celebrates Independence Day and Satchmo's birth with the latest in jazz, blues and heritage

Smooth Operators

Haikus and lows abound in this month's jazz and heritage releases

Upbeat

A load of the latest in heritage as Smokin' Joe gets nasty, Bill Frisell goes to Ghost Town, Greg Osby returns to form and everyone else gets the Gumbo once-over

Stop Making Sense

DJ Logic experiments with hiphop, rock and all that jazz

Coming Up

Former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler finds his own niche among his Friends & Lovers

Brand New Year

Having averted a millennial apocalypse, it's time to catch up on the latest in heritage in roots music

Sonic Stew

The first of our monthly roundups of the latest jazz, blues, country, folk and roots releases

Universal Greed

Seagram's merger invites a look into how the suits took record labels away from the true music enthusiasts

Recordings

Seagram's merger invites a look into how the suits took record labels away from the true music enthusiasts

Risky Business

Seventeen years after its advent, sampling remains mired in legal and aesthetic controversy

Earl of Strat

After two decades of sterling fretwork, Ronnie Earl emerges as a rising star of the blues

Dr. Cynic's Revenge

Beat Angel Brian Smith's 10 Greatest Atrocities in '96

Pic Hits for the week

Beat Angel Brian Smith's 10 Greatest Atrocities in '96

Survey Says...

New Times critics look back on the "oohs" and the "ughs" of pop music '95 (results tabulated from individual critics' lists and comments)

DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?SOME OVERLOOKED CHRISTMAS ALBUMS OFFER RELIEF FROM THE USUAL SEASONAL BLAHS

New Times critics look back on the "oohs" and the "ughs" of pop music '95 (results tabulated from individual critics' lists and comments)

BLUES BLOODED JOE LOUIS WALKER IS READY TO EMERGE FROM THE SHADOW OF ROBERT CRAY

New Times critics look back on the "oohs" and the "ughs" of pop music '95 (results tabulated from individual critics' lists and comments)