Squashed flat by deadlines during last week's holiday-shortened frame, I only managed to squeeze out a single measly record review for TONY. I'm glad to have managed that much, though, because Juliana Hatfield's How to Walk Away is among the highlights of a career I've followed since those long-ago Blake Babies days of the late ’80s. The disc actually came out some time in August, but the review was timed to draw attention to her show tonight (Friday, Sept. 12) at the Bowery Ballroom. (No, I won't be there.)

Playlist:

The Residents – Meet the Residents (East Side Digital); Not Available (East Side Digital); The Third Reich 'n Roll (Cryptic/Mute, via Rhapsody); Fingerprince (Cryptic/eMusic); Mark of the Mole/Intermission (Cryptic/Mute); The Tunes of Two Cities/The Big Bubble (Cryptic/Mute); Freak Show (Cryptic/Mute); Wormwood Live (Cryptic/eMusic); Demons Dance Alone (Cryptic/eMusic); The Bunny Boy (Santa Dog/MVD)

Matt Moran's Larobok i – Blurred and Somewhat Indistinct (Geode)

Tony Malaby Trio – Adobe (Free Lance)

N.W.A. – Straight Outta Compton (Ruthless)

Ice Cube – Raw Footage (Lench Mob)

Metallica – Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)

Charles Hamilton – Death of the Mixtape Rapper (Okayplayer mixtape)

Opeth – Watershed (Roadrunner)

Sam Phillips – Don't Do Anything (Nonesuch)

Hans Werner Henze – Die Bassariden Suite; Nachtstücke und Arien; Symphony No. 8 – Claudia Barainsky, Gurzenich Orchestra of Cologne/Markus Stenz (Phoenix Edition)

Jamie Baum Septet – Solace (Sunnyside)