Ever wonder why this country seems to have gone to hell? Watch Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story and wonder no more.

Author, critic, and self-confessed “drooling fanatic” Steve Almond’s latest rock and roll offering has a little something for fans and “fanatics” everywhere. Christopher Long shares the adoration.

Royal Lunch (Important Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

For weeks, the media has been awash in the tide for and against Michael Moore’s latest bombshell – Fahrenheit 9/11, which among other things investigates connection between the Bush and bin Laden families. James Mann explains why it is about more than your politics.

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I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House has been raising eyebrows this summer with their gutsy new disc and phenomenal live show. Frontman Mike Damron takes on Charlton Heston, Courtney Taylor, George Bush and much, much more in a no-punches-pulled interview with Steve Stav.

Noam Chomsky’s name is bound to raise hackles on the right and tears of joy on the left. His actual views aren’t as easy to pigeonhole, as James Mann attests.

James Mann asks, “Where’s the plane”? Actually, he doesn’t so much ask, as wonder why we aren’t asking.

“Step right up! America is for sale!” Greg Palast shows us how the powers that be got that way. It ain’t pretty. James Mann reviews The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.

Belated thoughts on the presidential election and about 50 million cd reviews, it must be the return of David Lee Beowulf, fighting fit and Angry Ink.