Ric Ocasek

It's like 1979 all over again. With its clenched-distortion guitar hook and airy come-hither
chorus, "The Next Right Moment" – the first song on the new solo album by the Cars'
main-wheel man, Ric Ocasek – is the spitting, turn-of-the-'80s image of that band's
black-pearl melodic polish and cat's-purr locomotion. And that's no bad thing. Ocasek's
biggest hits with the Cars were always catchy but disquieting things: airtight roc... More >