(Late 2021 note: This originally appeared in the November 2001 issue of The Record Exchange’s Music Monitor, likely the first issue with content written after 9/11.) Has one changed skyline altered your aural landscape, too? Did a bunch of songs…

(Late 2021 note: This album faced a hard life due to label issues. It’s getting revived onstage … maybe. Details currently up at TBMG’s homepage.) In the five years since their last full studio album, They Might Be Giants’ two…

In the past 12 months, Duncan Sheik has made music in London and New York studios, in a Cuban music hall, on a stage in Albania, and in Bill Frisell’s living room. Yet by late January, the songwriter was back home in…

Let’s remember one thing: it’s only rock and roll. Sure, this is Matthews’ big departure — sculpted, scrubbed, and plucked to seduce elusive retail markets in faraway lands. As you might recall, the contemplative Virginian was in a serious slump before…