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HotSocky (Billtown USA). Review by – Gail Worley.

4: Patty’s Favorite ‘Boy Bands’ (Top Quality Rock & Roll). Review by Stein Haukland.

The You I Knew (self-released). Review by Gail Worley.

Transmissionary Six (Film Guerrero). Review by Stein Haukland.

Baby’s Breadth (Secretly Canadian). Review by Stein Haukland.

Learning About Your Scale (Asthmatic Kitty). Review by Kurt Channing.

You Are the Best (RCA). Review by Matt Cibula.

Me Is He (Sonic Unyon). Review by Anton Warner.

Funk All Ya’ll (Jive Electro). Review by Christopher R. Weingarten.

6 1/2 (Pattern 25). Review by Ian Koss.

A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC (Dualtone/Western Beat). Review by Julio Diaz.

You can’t accuse They Might Be Giants of being slackers. After more than 15 years together, the already-prolific band is releasing a boatload of music, including work on Malcolm in the Middle and their first children’s album. Julio Diaz cornered John Flansburgh during a rare moment off, and got the latest on this extremely talented – and busy! – band.

Lots of artists like to go into the studio to play with all the high-tech toys, but Self went in to record their new album on actual toys! Matt Mahaffey reveals the secrets of Gizmodgery to Bryan Tilford.

By now, I’m used to being a bit disappointed with the new Ween album. I also …

Where’s Ween? (Ink 19, June 2000)

Event Review by Isaac Airbourne

Painting the Town Brown: Ween Live ‘90-‘98 (Elektra). Review by Jason Plender

Interview by Ed Furniture

Event Review by Ian Koss