Husker Du's 'Metal Circus' retrospect. Reviews of Stagnant Pools (Bloomington, IN), Midnight Reruns (Milwaukee) and Rip Owczarski and The Morning Afters (Bloomington, IN).

We review releases by Barsuk act Maps and Atlases (Chicago), Margot and The Nuclear So and So's (Indianapolis), The Hussy (Madison, WI) and Community Currency (Bloomington, IN).

We review releases by No Idea band Shores, Suicide Squeeze band Tammar, Joyful Noise's Stationary Odyssey and Susstones artist BNLX.

We review releases by The Harlequins, Eric Radoux, Torch Singer, The Size of Color and a half-assed live review/rant of Maps and Atlases.

Punknews.org staff reviewer Greg Simpson and pal Greg Moore discuss new releases by midwest artists, known and unknown, from a wide variety of genres.