Music: Pick of the Season

An informal consumer guide to current rock and pop

Check them out, tune them in, slip them on, let them spin. Herewith, a spring garland of rock and pop, with a few sprigs of hemlock for good measure.

Public Image Ltd.: Second Edition (Island/Warner Bros.). The weather forecast on the far frontiers of rock is a little cold and spooky, if this record is any indication. Alternately rigorous and unhinged, steam-heated and strangulated, Second Edition is the collective work of the band John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten) formed when he broke with the Sex Pistols. The Pistols' music was like a mugging; Public...

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