After thirty years, music critic Gary Giddins is still listening, still watching, and still… writing a multi-volume biography of your grandma’s favorite crooner, Bing Crosby? Ink 19 sat down with Giddins to talk about the shape of jazz to come.

Funny People - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Concord Music Group). Review by Carl F Gauze.

All The Colors (Subtitled Audio). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Sticks (ESL). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Matthew Moyer swoons over the voices inside the heads of The Legendary Pink Dots.

This deluxe anniversary edition of Dave Zimmer’s exhaustive CSN (and Y!) history offers a good many clues as to what exactly killed the hippie dream, thinks Matthew Moyer.

Carl F Gauze takes an armchair tour through old Atlanta, courtesy of Zeus Henderson’s super-8 camera.

David Whited shares what he learned from Ian MacDonald’s seminal look at 1960s Beatles’ songs and their influence on American culture.

Pronounced Normal (Collectors Choice Music/Rhino). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Slow Ride (Inside Sounds). Review by Joe Frietze.

Technological Retreat Mixes Vol. 1 (Innova). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Big Boss Man (Sony ATV Music). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Then And Now (Fuel 2000). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Battle of Life (Self-released). Review by Andrew Ellis.

Memphis Meets The Beatles (Inside Sounds). Review by Joe Frietze.

The Words We Say Before We Sleep (Marriage Records). Review by Ben Varkentine.

All Ears, All Eyes, All The Time (Side One Dummy). Review by Addam Donnelly.

Everybody Loves A Happy Ending (Sony). Review by Ben “I waited 12 years for this?” Varkentine.

The Gurus (Rainbow Quartz International). Review by Sean Slone.

Gail “Desperado” Worley continues her quest for the Alice Cooper quadfecta with an interview with Dennis Dunaway, original bassist for the band, Alice Cooper.