The first solo effort by breeders guitarist Kelley Deal lasts a paltry 31 minutes. It makes for a neat demo-tape showcase of her first attempts at songwriting, but as a CD – and carrying a CD's hefty price tag – the project is too slight to get excited over. After Deal completed a rehabilitation program for heroin problems, she recorded Go to the Sugar Altar with members of prominent...

Five years after she debuted as the guitarist for her sister Kim Deal's band, the Breeders, Kelley Deal has made a fun and arty fuck-about of a solo album. Boom! Boom! Boom! is a melee of styles and sounds, with Deal leading the circus: She lets out adolescent shouts over obnoxious, power-punk blasts like "Shag," delivers scratchy-sexy whispers in surreal and moody numbers like "Skylark," and is...

\\Only a handful of die-hards slogged through a muggy D.C. night to hear the controversy-dogged "Other Deal," but sparse attendance didn't bother her four-piece band. Starting with the noisy snare-drum intro of...