Julie Seabaugh

Even offstage, it seems, there is no Gregg Turkington. There is only the comedian he embodies onstage, Neil Hamburger. Like Andy Kaufman's alter ego Tony Clifton, Hamburger is a larger-than-life lounge lizard whose genius lies in being so bad that he's good. With his incessant throat-clearing, he's made an art...

In a world where the latest Next Big Thing is the subject of tomorrow's VH1 reality show, it's nice to have a band like Relient K around. Even after five albums -- check out this month's Five Score and Seven Years Ago -- the Ohio quintet still crafts solid, frantic...

Self-proclaimed Secret Machines fan David Bowie explored the duality of emotion in "Rebel Rebel" and "Young Americans"; now, Secret Machines have appropriated the theme on their second full-length. Ten Silver Drops' eight tracks drip with the New York trio's trademark psychedelia: trippy, distorted guitarwork la Pink Floyd that's bolstered by...

-- Julie Seabaugh