Plus Lydia Loveless, Bad History Month, Dust from a 1000 Yrs, and Spanish post-punk.

Spanning New Zealand comebacks, instrumental post-rock, and oud music.

Artfully covering Nina Simone, Stonehenge album re-issues, and Brooklyn noise rock.

Digging into the desk's pile of promos for some bullet reviews.

Outliers with post-rock, jazz rock, and dreamy psych-pop stamina.

Dancier than usual our correspondent in Wisconsin explores Spitzer, Ishi and Caveman.

The auteur's "novel" from '98 is the ravings of a lunatic visionary.

From art pop inspired by serial killers to Dutch rappers on Texas labels.

Hipshaking obscure R&B comps, mockeries of "Best Of…" comps, and messy EPs.

Our correspondent in Wisconsin returns with a dedication to his wife, a cancer survivor.

Winners in Grape Soda and Lilly Hiat. Concerns for maybeshewill maybereconsideringthename.

Former Flying Nuns turned New Yorkers, Texas honkey tonk, and dud that fails hard.

A journo's desk in Wisconsin gets less cluttered.

But first, our man in Wisconsin airs out his grievances with VP candidate Paul Ryan.

Back from hiatus, AMH makes sense of the record pile on his desk.