New Music with Jeremy Taylor

The eighth solo album from smart singer-songwriter Aimee Mann - perhaps most famous for her songs on the Magnolia film soundtrack - has some smart, literate and robustly tuneful songs; a new solo album from co-founder of Sonic Youth Lee Ranaldo delivers acoustic 'adult indie' rock much gentler than that band's jarring dissonance; and a retro-guitar comeback LP from 'I Love Rock'n'Roll' hitmaker Joan Jett, sounding a bit like Hole.