Editors' Choice for August 2005
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: No Direction Home – The Soundtrack
Legacy / Columbia/Legacy
Late Registration
Def Jam
Acclaimed rapper's sophomore album takes the art of sampling and emceeing to a new plateau.
Fun House [Deluxe Edition]
Rhino / Elektra
The 1970 sophomore album from the Ann Arbor proto-punks is a denser, more assaultive follow-up to the art-garage noise of their debut.
War Profiteering Is Killing Us All
SideOneDummy
The storied Detroit ska-punks are as tight and fervent as ever here, recapturing and even besting their early sound.