Roni Sarig

The Wilsons The Wilsons (Mercury Records) With the wretched Wilson Phillips, Carnie and Wendy Wilson--along with childhood chum Chynna Phillips--cashed in on a fleeting pop moment. At the dawn of this decade, progeny rock managed to unite proud baby boomers (who vicariously felt that they had raised these pampered superstar...

Thomas Ades Life Story (EMI Classics) Ever wonder who the next big thing will be in the shrinking world of classical music? Didn't think so. But there's an encouraging noise goosing the genre's increasing irrelevance. It's the sound that comes from the fingers of Thomas Ades, a 26-year-old British composer...

Various artists Beg, Scream and Shout: The Big Ol' Box of '60s Soul (Rhino Records) Blame it on The Big Chill. The 1983 celluloid blowjob for the baby-boomer set not only created a mid-'80s explosion of oldies radio ("music for the Big Chill generation," they called it), it also cemented...

Magnus Sveningsson says the Cardigans aren't as happy, happy, joy, joy as they sound. "I hope we fool listeners to think we only play happy songs," says the bass player and chief lyricist for the fluffy pop band from Sweden. "I hope people like the chorus, but the third or...

Vanessa Daou Slow to Burn (MCA) Virgin Island jazz-pop/dance diva Vanessa Daou and her producer/instrumentalist husband Peter Daou earned the favorable notice of dance-club feminists in 1994 with Zipless, an album that set the poetry and occasionally the voice of Erica Jong to music (the Fear of Flying author is...