Music Music
by Chuck Eddy
Exactly two-thirds of the current releases recommended below (and 80 percent of the ones containing new rather than old music) come from women who rock. But only a couple come from women usually thought of as “rock”—and not the one with the AC/DC cover, the one with the Def Leppard and Lee Dorsey/Devo covers, or the one with the song that sounds almost exactly like Billy Squier’s “Everybody Wants You.” Go figure.
DAVE EDMUNDS
From Small Things: The Best Of
(Columbia/Legacy ’70s–’80s pub-rockabilly reissue)
KATRINA ELAM
Katrina Elam
(Universal pop-country album)
“No End in Sight” (Real Audio)
THE LITTLE WOMEN BAND
The Little Women Band
(thelittlewomen.com pop-country album)
“Without Me” (MP3)
“Sister to Sister” (MP3 clip)
MALIBU STORM
Malibu Storm
(Rounder pop-bluegrass album)
“The Bird Song” (MP3)
“Photograph” (MP3)
For more songs or to download the album, go here.
MIA
“Galang”
(XL Recordings pop-bhangra single)
miauk.com (Click on Music to hear “Galang.”)
YOLANDA PEREZ
Aquí Me Tienes
(Fonovisa pop-banda album)
Yolanda Perez at fonovisa.com (in Spanish)
SHAKIRA
Live & Off the Record
(Epic Latin pop album-plus-DVD)
SIT N’ SPIN
Doin’ Time With Sit N’ Spin
(Blood Red glam-rockabilly album)
OMAR SOSA
Mulatos
(Otá Latin jazz album)
Mulatos at omarsosa.com
TEXAS TERRI BOMB!
“Your Lips . . . My Ass!”
(TKO punk album)
Song samples at texasterri.com
EL TRI BUTO
(WEA International banda compilation)
eltri.com.mx
RITMO AFRO-CUBANO
(Festival ’50s-’90s Latin jazz reissue compilation)