Robin Myrick

The Mavericks Trampoline MCA Mavericks lead singer/songwriter Raul Malo has always harbored ambition as soaring as his gorgeous voice. But for him and his band, the focus of those ambitions is constantly shifting. On their major-label debut, 1990's From Hell to Paradise, Malo possessed the unfettered ambition to write Bakersfield...

The Presidents of the United States of America II Columbia Records Waiting for the arrival of the Presidents's sophomore effort, after the pleasant Top 40 experience that was the Seattle band's eponymous 1995 debut, was a little like anticipating Men at Work's second release, Cargo. The first one was great,...

Linda Perry In Flight Rockstar/Interscope "Simplify, don't amplify" is Linda Perry's mantra these days. On her solo debut, In Flight, Perry leaves behind her platinum success story, 4 Non Blondes, and sets out to create a headphones-friendly CD along the lines of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. She...

Wilco Being There Reprise Leave it to Jeff Tweedy to take a rock-star notion as pretentious as the double-length concept album and reduce it to something about as nonchalant as a trip to the corner store for cigarettes. Tweedy was, after all, the less-affected of the two songwriters behind roots-rock...

Throughout his scrappy '80s career with seminal hard-core pop threesome Husker Du, his '90s stint with the more accessible power trio Sugar and spurts on his own, Bob Mould has never been one to cling to an idea with an expiration date -- or to stick around any place for...