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This Week In Music: 9/17-9/23

This week in music listening, featuring patent-pending two-word reviews:

Radio 4: Stealing of a Nation - average dancepunk
Ministry: The Last Sucker - pummeling rhythms
FireHouse: Hold Your Fire - plentiful riffs
ZZ Top: La Futura - couple gems
Vandenberg: Vandenberg - quality debut
Rush: Hemispheres - difficult ambition
Stereolab: Refried Ectoplasm (Switched on Vol. 2) - mixed bag
Superdrag: The Fabulous 8-Track Sound of Superdrag - urgent rock
Ben Folds Five: The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind - welcome return
Robert Pollard With Doug Gillard: Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department - matured songwriting
Minus The Bear: Infinity Overhead - better Bear

This Week In Music: 6/25-7/1

This week in music listening, featuring patent-pending two-word reviews:

Butch Walker: Rise & Fall of Butch Walker & The Let’s-Go-Out-Tonites - seventies-ish pop
Van Duren: Idiot Optimism - seventies-ish singer/songwriterism
Pete Townshend: The Iron Man: A Musical - huge mistake
Robert Pollard: Lord of the Birdcage - poetic interpretations
Vandenberg: Heading for a Storm - lightweight metal
Throwing Muses: Throwing Muses - surprising rock
Ryan Smith: Waiting - midwestern PostalService-esque
Rush: Grace Under Pressure - electronic overload
Dead Can Dance: Anastasis – moody darkness
Royal Thunder: Cvi - soulful metal
Genesis: Genesis - Collins best