Album reviews: Joey Sweeney, Bottle Rockets, and Xiu Xiu

For the last two decades, Joey Sweeney has created some of this city's most literate and snarky rock-and-roll, starting with the Barnabys in the early '90s and then with The Trouble With Sweeney around the turn of the century. After 2004's Fishtown Briefcase, he set aside his music career and focused on Philebrity, the Philly arts- and-culture website. He returned to the stage in late 2011 with the brash and glammy Arctic Splash. Long Hair is his first album in way too long.