The Life of Riley
Artist: The A-Bones

The A-Bones were the "band" side of KICKS Magazine/Norton Records folks Billy Miller and Miriam Linna, husband and wife, rocking down the highway of record-collecting life, creating tonal mayhem wherever and whenever they strike. Miriam did time as the original drummer for the Cramps and both of them cut some pretty wild sides with some... Read More

Is It...Man or Astro-Man?
Artist: Man or Astro-man?
Community Score: 6.00

Escapist treats abound from this mysterious, tongue-in-cheek collective from the Southern United States. Man or Astro-man? have an ear for yesterday's sounds of tomorrow, as they decorate their mostly instrumental tracks with obscure sound bytes from out-of-date sci-fi movies and forgotten TV shows. Silly, dangerous, occasionally sloppy, but... Read More

Mono USA
Artist: Ben Vaughn

Who knew that artists as disparate as Fred Neil, the Ventures, and Alan Vega were actually spiritual kin? Ben Vaughn knew all along and he proved it on this album of covers. Vaughn has always been part musicologist, and he probably thumbed through a record collection the size of two rooms to rescue the songs (and in some instances, the artists... Read More

Welcome to My Job: The Cub Koda Collection 1963-93
Artist: Cub Koda

Covering everything from his pre-Brownsville Station days to two brand-new songs, Welcome to My Job is the definitive collection of Cub Koda's versatile solo career. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide Read More

The Buddy Holly Collection
Artist: Buddy Holly
Community Score: 8.00

Given the reluctance of MCA to release a CD version of the complete Buddy Holly recordings (due to either legal issues or a skepticism of its commercial worth), the double-disc 1993 set The Buddy Holly Collection stands as the most comprehensive and greatest CD-era retrospective of the legendary rock & roller. Though it contains all the big... Read More

It Came from Nashville
Artist: Webb Wilder
Community Score: 5.00

Rock & roll at its heart, with gimmicks on its shoulder. Lots of fun. ~ Robert Gordon, All Music Guide Read More

Right or Wrong - BOX
Artist: Wanda Jackson

This four-CD set is like a photo album of Wanda Jackson growing up, from innocent adolescent to rockabilly star and the dominant female country singer of the early 1960s. Her complete recordings from the first Decca session in March 1954 until her Capitol session of November 2, 1962, constitute the part of her career that rock & roll and... Read More

Dark Sides: The Best of the Shadows of Knight
Artist: Shadows of Knight

More easily available to North Americans than the British Edsel best-of, but not necessarily an improvement. Adds some tracks from both the original lineup and their unimpressive, more pop-oriented singles from the late '60s, and has more comprehensive liner notes, but also omits a few decent covers that are on the U.K. compilation, particularly... Read More