Lunachicks / Luxury Problem / Go-Kart I haven't had this much fun with a CD in quite some time! For those of you unfamiliar with this (recently downsized) NYC quartet, the Lunachicks are kinda like a four-pack of Barbie dolls, dressed up by your transvestite brother with plenty of liberally applied makeup mushed all over their faces... more» FEATURED ON THE BOOMBOX!
		Soundlab / Flav-O-Pac: Memeograph I / Soundlab Take recordings of live performances by major illbient artists, cut them up and remix them into a continuous collage of premillennial tension, and what have you got? If you said Flav-O-Pac: Memeograph I then you get the proverbial star on your forehead... more» FEATURED ON THE BOOMBOX!
		The Essex Green / Everything is Green / Kindercore If you're anything at all like me, perhaps you, too have watched A Midsummer Night's Dream and thought "wow, this place sure could use a house band." That's right, a band to play amongst the pixies and sprites and leafy green foliage. Well, fear not, my theatre-going counterparts, for I have found that band and they are The Essex Green... more»
		Fonda / The Invisible Girl / Top Quality Occasionally, no matter how busy the Splendid offices are, a new CD makes the trip from mailbox to CD player in a matter of seconds. Such was the case with The Invisible Girl... more»
		Heather Duby / Post to Wire / Sub Pop If you've heard too many painfully sincere, intensely serious singer/songwriter Lilith Fair types, you're probably a little gun-shy when it comes to female solo artists. Don't make that sort of assumption about Heather Duby... more»
		Luna / The Days of Our Nights / Jericho/Sire Luna's albums have always been a bit gloomy -- in a good way, of course. The Days of Our Nights seems gloomier and more spartan than usual, as if the band knew that former label Elektra was going to drop them shortly before the album's release and wanted to be in the right frame of mind for it... more»
		The Montgomery Cliffs / Millennium: A Pop Opera / RPM USA Millenium: A Pop Opera is a sort of homage to the concept albums and rock theatrics of the late sixties and seventies -- albeit without the fifteen-minutes-each guitar and drum solos...more»
		The Smithereens / God Save the Smithereens / Koch/Velvel Rather than be one of those bands that inspire a lot of head-scratching and muttering (i.e.:"Oh yeah, I remember The Smithereens"), the band got back in touch, convinced the bass player to rejoin, went into the studio and created God Save the Smithereens. A solid album is the result...more»
		Thingy / To the Innocent / Absolutely Kosher How can you argue with lyrics like these: "I'm an imbecile/I'm a big dumb animal/Put my fingers in the fan." And anyway, why would you? Thingy's got all the ingredients in place for cooking up a delicious, quirky, guitar pop stew, and on To The Innocent they've got it just about right...more»
		Unwound / A Single History: 1991-1997 / Kill Rock Stars Compiling the band's singles and compilation tracks, A Single History not only chronicles Unwound's progress through the years as a tight musical outfit, but also outlines the band's varying uses of tempo, intensity and the almighty distortion pedal, proving that the band's tightly coiled, combustible music truly lives up to the name Unwound...more»