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

Mike Bennett presents full length reviews of the new
Yellow Pills compilation put together by Jordan Oakes
and new albums from Spoon, Idlewild, Kaiser Chiefs and
former Superdrag frontman John Davis.  Mike also has
capsule reviews of the new Solomon Burke, Smash
Palace, Wanderjahr, The Wonder Stuff, The Satelliters,
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, Hell’s House Band, Dave
King, Jackdaw 4, Jarvis Humby and new compilations
from the Popboomerang, Planting Seeds and Zip Records.
 

Gary Glauber reviews the new Mockers, Jackdaw 4,
Sparkwood, The Fire Apes, Vinyl Kings and Paul
Gilbert. 

Kurt Sampsel reviews a reissue from October Country.

James Baumann reviews new releases from Nic Armstrong
& the Thieves, Braden Blake of SuperDeluxe, Manda &
the Marbles, and the 10th Anniversary reissue of the
Manic Street Preachers’ Holy Bible album.

Gary Pig Gold gives ten reasons why The Sex Pistols
should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as if
reason had anything to do with what gets in the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame.  (Note:  I believe Gary is the
only writer to argue in favor of the induction of both
Pat Boone and the Sex Pistols into the Hall of Fame).

Mike Bennett, much like Fannee Doolee, loves going to
ballparks, but hates the music they play there.  So he
vents his spleen, and wishes he had a copy of Bruce
Springstone’s “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”.

Shakin’ Street was a hard rocking French band in the
early-‘80s, produced by Sandy Pearlman.  Lead singer
Fabienne Shine.  Shine has a solo effort out and some
stories to tell, and Robert Pally captured some of
them for posterity.

Kurt Hernon starts his column talking about musical
perfection, and then moves on in a typical Hernon-ian
fashion.

Alan Haber’s continuing series on radio looks at the
impact of satellite radio, especially now that Howard
Stern will soon be on Sirius.

Another continuing series is James Baumann’s look at
the great books in the 33 1/3 series from Continuum
Publishing.  This month, James reviews the book on the
Ramones.

We also have a book review from Michael Lynch. 
Michael writes about Keith Badman’s new book on the
Beach Boys, which purports to be the definitive diary
of the band.	

The newest edition of So Much Music...So Little Time
features Kevin Mathews’ Blurb-O-Rama-riffic musings on
music by Relient K, Magnus, Doves, The Fall,
Sparkwood, Fire Apes, Babylon Mystery Orchestra, No
Turn On Red and much more.

Eric Sorensen’s Further Observations Of A Jangly Music
Fan is chock full of wisdom, including Eric’s thoughts
on records by Richard Snow, The Soundtrack Of Our
Lives, Les Fradkin, CJ Grogan, Popium, John Davis,
Neal Casal, the new Popboomerang compilation, a
Flamin’ Groovies reissue and much more.

We hope you all come and visit us.

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