Covering Motown classics can be awfully risky, but you can always trust the Doughboys to do things right.

The John and Paul are pop-rock gourmets with impeccable taste and timing.

Chip Muellemann’s Here’s Chippy offers an album driven by a victorious blend of raw energy and technical triumph.

If there’s one band that has a handle on tweaking traditional pop rock to modern effects, it’s the Britannicas.

Threaded with a hip-hugging hook, this song packs a wallop.

Diligently designed songs, executed with taste, substance, and energy.

Armed with an impressive pop vocabulary, Phonograph should have been huge.

An unjustly forgotten disc any true blue psychedelic fan will fall madly in love with.

Spartan but sturdy arrangements, capped with hummable choruses and spiky breaks.

Decades after their biggest hits, the Standells are still creating garage-shaking rock.