William Rodney Herring

For once in my life, I'm out of things to say. Except: there's been a new issue of Wowee Zowee, the Sordid Sentinels Edition, with a(n absurd) total of 50 tracks--the last 32 of which are b-sides, outtakes, and live tracks. Yeah, that makes this album less all-over-the-place.

1. 'Song Against Sex,' Neutral Milk Hotel
2. 'A Forest,' Okkervil River
3. 'Interlude,' MK Ultra
4. 'Paris 2004,' Peter Bjorn and John
5. 'Five Easy Places,' Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
6. 'Half a Canyon,' Pavement
7. 'Erroneous Escape Into Eric Eckles,' Of Montreal
8. 'Cold Brains,' Beck
9. 'Future & Folly,' Blitzen Trapper
10. 'Pearls on a String,' Ryan Adams

Oh, I'll also say this about the latest Ryan Adams album: "Pearls on a String" is one of the three or four really good songs on it (which of course is what we've come to expect, right?). The problem is, what I consider the best song on the album--"Halloweenhead"--is almost entirely ruined when Adams hollers "guitar solo!" after the second chorus. Is this not the aural equivalent of air guitar? Or am I alone in being annoyed by such a gesture?