Pom Pom Squad began as songwriter Mia Berrin’s solo operation but now employs four full-time experts in musical munitions and lethal lyrical techniques.

You can say that bedrock funk bassist Bootsy Collins is The One, and you would be right on so many levels.

SQUEEZE (Yep Roc). Review by Julius C. Lacking.

The Man That Time Forgot (Big Legal Mess/Fat Possum Records). Review by James Mann.

Labour of Lust (Yep Roc). Review by Sean Slone.

Alpha (Authentik Artists). Review by Sean Slone.

Together (Matador). Review by Sean Slone.

Andrew Ellis talks The Sopranos, Nintendo oh, and music, with Danny Roselle, frontman for hot NJ band The Crash Moderns.

Volume 4 (Restless/Ryko). Review by Ben Varkentine.

Home Away (Waxy Silver). Review by Sean Slone.

14 ’80s music videos presented on DVD without commentary (or any other extras, for that matter)? Julio Diaz has a few choice comments of his own about Pure 80’s: The DVD.

Jools Holland’s Big Band Rhythm + Blues (Rhino). Review by Ian Koss.

Squeeze co-founder Glenn Tilbrook is taking it solo these days, touring the U.S. in an RV and having a great time of it. Steve Stav catches up with one of the premier songwriters of the ’80s.

The K.G.B. (Dreamworks). Review by Vanessa Bormann.

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