The March 2005 Fufkin.com page is up. This month we
have the following record reviews:

Mike Bennett presents full length reviews of the
latest from The Doves, the highly anticipated debut
album by Bloc Party, the new Sparkwood, Petra Haden
and The Sugarplastic.  Mike also has capsule reviews
of a They Might Be Giants children’s record, The
Wedding Present, The Pernice Brothers’ live album, Ian
McGlynn, Percy ‘Thrills’ Hussalonia, AK-MOMO, former
Translator member Steve Barton, Snowglobe, Frank Lee
Sprague, Bettie Serveert and LCD Soundsystem.  

Gary Glauber reviews the long awaited Eric Matthews
album and the latest from Brendan Benson, Ivy, Jeffrey
Foskett, and Jeff Finlin. 

Kurt Sampsel reviews a reissue from The Swamp Rats.

Katherine Kim reviews new CDs from Amos Lee and
classical violinist Nigel Kennedy.

And Fufkin.com welcomes Kerry Chicoine to the ranks. 
Kerry contributes reviews of new discs from Jensen
Bell and Aguafantastica.

Kurt Hernon is back, and after the deaths of Hunter S.
Thompson and jazz organ genius Jimmy Smith, he
contributes a great piece called Reflections on
Mortality:  Fear And Loathing in Cleveland, Ohio.

James Baumann’s new feature is called Everyday I Read
the Book, where he takes a look at books and
literature related to rock.  James looks at two books
about the legendary album Let It Be.  There’s a catch
– one of them is about The Replacements’ classic and
the other is about The Beatles’ swan song.

Almost 20 years after their break up, the entire
catalog of The Boomtown Rats is available on CD, the
first time ever all six albums have been issued on CD.
 Mike Bennett snapped them up and writes about the
Rats, along with a run through some recent concerts
he’s seen, and a few rock and roll highlights from the
2005 edition of Baseball Prospectus.

Michael Lynch follows up on his piece on the quickie
Monkees rip off LP Monkey Business, with a piece on
Monkeys A Go Go.  Yes, it’s an LP of a fake group,
trying to sound like a pre-fabricated group. 
Hyperreality, ‘60s style.

Alan Haber continues his series on the state of radio.
 In Part 5, Alan gives his take on satellite radio.

I don’t know if Gary Pig Gold likes “Panic” by The
Smiths (y’know, the song where Morrissey sings “hang
the DJ”), but I would not be surprised if he doesn’t
after looking at his list of the unsung heroes of rock
and roll.  Not to spoil anything, but he ignored
Madman Mancuso who played the same Buddy Holly record
over and over, and was winningly portrayed by Fred
Travalena in The Buddy Holly Story.  That’s how good
Gary’s list is.

Kevin Mathews has the ol’ Blurb-O-Rama running full
blast.  This month’s installment of So Much Music...So
Little Time has Kevin’s views on music from (Daryl)
Ohio, the new Cars tribute album, David Kitt, Stina
Nordenstam, Frog Holler, Bebel Gilberto, The Shamus
Twins, and more.

Meanwhile Eric Sorensen’s Further Observations of a
Jangly Music Fan begins with Eric’s commentary on the
weather, but settles into what Eric does best – give
you the goods on swell music like the 2004 release
from The Edisons, Steve Barton, Sparkwood, Kyle
Vincent, Lisa Hayes, Outrageous Cherry, Mark Helm and
a Steve Wynn compilation that sounds really cool, and
more.

We hope you all come and visit us.

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