I first remember seeing Mother Hips at a house party in Chico, California in about 1991, and they weren’t very good at all. A few years later, they played at a bar in Santa Barbara, California, and boy, did they get good.

This record is fucking sick. Donovan Quinn and Glenn Donaldson are geniuses. This is the album that Brian Jonestown Massacre should have made, instead of the crappy one they just put out. Amon Duul are freaking out on this.

In the tradition of Blue Note revisited and Verve remixed, Impulse is the latest Jazz label to jump onto the remix wagon in hopes of turning today’s youth on to the old sounds of jazz. In the 60s, Impulse was considered hip with its “new thing” sound.

It’s somewhat interesting that given his successes, Pinback mastermind Rob Crowe is still in need of further musical outlets. With last year’s Summer in Abaddon bringing the band’s popularity to new heights, it was hard to imagine a project like Goblin Cock in Crowe’s immediate future.

Don’t you hate it when the first song on an album temporarily delays the realization that you’re about to sit through 52 minutes of boredom?

After an unabridged listening of Crazy Price, it is still difficult to ascertain exactly how much of each track is live instrumentation and how much is brilliant sample. It hardly matters. This much is known: Messer Chups present us with a highly unique mishmash of film noir sounds.

Originally released in 2001 on the Thule Icelandic label, the re-release of Mum’s debut album was something I couldn’t wait to get my hands on again. This is one of the few albums that I have actually succeeded in playing until the disc itself was completely destroyed.

Oh, Tomlab Records! Can you do nothing wrong? Young Adults Against Suicide is Ninja High School ’s first full-length, following only the 2004 EP entitled We Win, which was released on Steven Kado’s Toronto-based Blocks Recording Club.

The folks at Kill Rock Stars, who usually have better ideas, are re-releasing Linda Perry’s album In Flight, which originally came out on Interscope in 1996. Allmusicguide’s Vincent Jeffries, despite giving In Flight a generally positive review, used the following phrases: “overly personal,” “dangerously sincere,” “excessively self-analytical,” and “weepy predisposition” to describe it. All of those apply.

ADULT. are (aside from being grammatically sensitive about their name) one of those bands whose ideals and creative vision are more easily appreciated than the music that they create. Their desire to craft something new and different – music as an artistic statement – is a noble and interesting endeavor; unfortunately, their angular, effects-ridden brand of techno-laced indie dance rock misses the mark.

How many times this year have I said, “Oh yeah! I can’t wait to get the new Deerhoof album!” It’s getting to the point where specific titles have to be used or else I wind up in the conversation that goes something like: “The new new one, or the new one? Wasn’t that a re-release? Oh, it was just an EP?”

Jagjaguwar doesn’t put out bad records, and No Rest for Ghosts won’t be the exception. Minus Story come to us from Lawrence, Kansas, kind of, but might as well have just stepped of the bus from Athens, Georgia, 1997. This record has a real Elephant 6 Collective feel about it: sprawling psychedelic pop experimentation with simple, catchy melodies.