Falling James

Let other punk rock bands sing about anarchy and nuclear destruction. The Buzzcocks specialize in affairs of the heart, and singer-guitarists Steve Diggle and, especially, Pete Shelley have penned an endless series of love songs that distill all of the euphoria and misery of romantic attraction into perfectly hooky three-minute......

During the first concert of Paul McCartney's sold-out, two-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl, it was sometimes hard to tell who was having the better time. Was it the fans, who were delirious to see their hero in this historic, relatively intimate amphitheater (albeit at a steep ticket price)? Or......

The Quick, Mondo Deco (Radio Heartbeat Records; www.radioheartbeat.net) In this nostalgia-mad music era, when seemingly everything worthwhile has already been rediscovered and fully explained a long time ago, it's more than a little ironic that a band called the Quick had to wait three decades for its debut (and only)......