Reviews:

Dan Utano thinks they don't make 'em like The Band's Northern Lights, Southern Cross anymore.

Paul Chiesa welcomes back Bigwig.

Joe Regina wonders, why tamper with Rubber Soul?

Dan Carlson praises the Dead.

Victor Wooten's A Show Of Hands pleases Jeremiah Kaufman

Eva Farazzi waxes poetic over Jack Johnson's Brushfire Fairytales.

Ben Graef says Red Grammer means children’s music does not have to suck

Brett Oronzio thinks the Strokes missed the point of their First Impressions of Earth

Jim Stroh bangs the drum for the Deftones' White Pony.

Marty Kafafian gets elevated by Duane Allman's Anthology.

David Kuenzler finds Eminem's Marshal Mathers LP controversial and musical.

Paige DiFrancesco finds wonder in Stevie Wonder's Definitive Collection

Scott Brennan gets infected by Dredg

Tom Halter sees America in Johnny Cash's 16 Biggest Hits

Instructor Hank Bordowitz gets sucked into a hurricane of post-Katrina all-star New Orleans Funk

Evan Ritman finds comfort in U2's How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

Joseph Dougherty gets bound up with Alice In Chains' Facelift

Zach Dusedau plays games with the January crop of Metroids Music from Dwelling of Duels

Christian Grissoni laughs and gets mad with Eminem's Encore

Sonya Shaw cautiously recommends Rufus Wainwright's Want Two

Britany Valenti wonders if Good Charlotte abandoned her with Chronicles of Life and Death

Mike Nadeau finds Green Day's American Idiot brilliant ... to a point

Anthony DeCarlo goes underground for Interpol's Antics

Michael Klimovich savages the latest demo by Sand Road

Jack Hsu takes a trip around the rockin' globe with the Tak Matsumoto Group's TMG1

Irene Maksymiw has faith in Emery's The Weak's End

Melodie Mesiano takes a retro trip with the Killers Hot Fuss

Daniel Carafa feels only a little uneasy at the new, more melodic Shadows Fall displayed on The War Within