Pat Fish, better known as The Jazz Butcher, passed away a year ago today. Julius C. Lacking offers a requiem for this legendary everyman.

Juliana Hatfield is once again in the middle of an unstoppable creative streak, now mixing her needle-sharp pop sensibilities with some truly out-there production.

The Gaslamp Killer earned his nickname by ruining the vibe of clubs in San Diego’s Gaslamp district with his incongruous DJ sets, so we must conclude those clubs were lame.

Big Words Make the Baby Jesus Cry, Dark Clouds Gather over Middlemarch, The Great Boston Molasses Flood. Review by Eric J. Iannelli.

On September 9 and 10, 2005, Cracker and a reformed Camper Van Beethoven hosted an intimate Woodstock-like concert in Pioneertown, CA, along with their entire musical family tree. Eric J. Iannelli takes a look at the DVD documenting that inaugural event.

The Spine (Idlewild/Rounder/Universal). Review by Eric J. Iannelli.

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Countrysides (Cooking Vinyl). Review by Eric J. Iannelli.

The Man on the Burning Tightrope (jetset). Review by Terry Eagan.

O Cracker, Where Art Thou? (Pitch-A-Tent Records). Review by James Mann.

First Suckling (Pop de Merde). Review by Jason Plender.

Voi-La Intruder (Rubric). Review by Ian Koss.

Forever (Virgin). Review by Eric J. Iannelli.

The Ghost of Fashion (spinART). Review by Julio Diaz.