Rock

World music critic Milo Miles reviews the 3 CD set, The Velvet Underground Bootleg Series, Vol. 1: The Quine Tapes. Its music recorded in 1969 by Robert Quine who later became part of the New York punk rock scene in the 1970s.

Music critic Milo Miles reviews the new Grateful Dead box set.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Is This It, the debut CD of the New York quintet, The Strokes.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Love and Theft (Columbia) the new release by Bob Dylan.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Fan Dance, the new recording by Sam Phillips, and her first album in five years.

Rock historian Ed Ward reviews a new 4-CD box set from Buffalo Springfield

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the new NSync CD, entitled Celebrity.

Rock historian Ed Ward remembers Beale street 1952 the place in Memphis that launched the careers of Ike Turner, Rosco Gordon, Bobby Bland, Little Junior Parker, and B.B. King.

Rock critic Ken Tucker looks at two very different female musicians: Gillian Welch, whose new CD is Time The Revelator, and Nikka Costa, whose debut release is Everybody Got their Something.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews –Fear Not the Obvious— (Bloodshot Records) the debut album by a group called the Yayhoos.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews White Blood Cells the new CD by the Detroit duo The White Stripes.

Music critic Milo Miles reviews the music of the "mysterious" German band Neu!. The band has just reissued its first three albums from the 1970s: Neu!,,Neu!2, and Neu! '75. (

Ken Tucker reviews the new CD by Rufus Wainwright. Its called Poses.

Rock historian Ed Ward on the B 52's.

He brings his guitar to the studio. His new album is Blue Boy. Elvis Costello has been a big supporter of Sexsmith, praising his songwriting abilities and bring him on tour as an opening act. Sexsmith has recorded three other albums. He hails from Toronto, Canada.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Survivor the new release by Destinys Child.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the hit debut single of the girl-group Edens Crush and the new comeback CD God Bless the Go-Gos by (of course) the Go-Gos.

Hal Blaine's distinctive sound could be heard on thousands of recordings from the late 1950s and on for 25 years. He played on the hit records, Be My Baby by The Ronettes, Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys, I Got You Babe, by Sony & Cher, Mr Tambourine Man, by The Byrds, Monday, Monday by the Mamas and the Papas, Strangers in the Night by Frank Sinatra, and many many more. Last year Blaine was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Tropical Brainstorm the final album by the late British singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Isolation Drills the new release by the band Guided by Voices.