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Puff Daddy: Forever

It is sometimes said that each decade and generation gets the musical superstars they deserve. So it's perhaps appropriate that the tacky, glossy, irony-free late '90s should be afflicted with Puff Da

Prince: The Vault... Old Friends 4 Sale

Back before he started releasing virtually everything he recorded and changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol, Prince's vaults were legendary, said to be filled with songs for which the many boo

Rammstein: Live Aus Berlin

One of the more surreal side effects of April's Columbine massacre was the onslaught of press releases from silly bands that were suddenly forced to publicly distance themselves from their two most mi

The Magnetic Fields: 69 Songs About Love

Stephin Merritt is nothing if not ambitious. As the songwriter, instrumentalist, and/or singer for such conceptually ambitious bands as The Magnetic Fields, The Gothic Archies, The 6ths, and Future Bi

Eve: Ruff Ryders' First Lady

At 20, the artist formerly known as Eve Of Destruction has already experienced a career's worth of highs and lows. After a brief stint as a stripper, Eve received a big break that wasn't (a deal with

Iggy Pop: Avenue B

Iggy Pop, an icon of rock's self-destructive impulses, turned 50 a couple years ago, the sort of irony few would have predicted during Pop's days with The Stooges, or during his tumultuous, Bowie-affi

Tori Amos: To Venus And Back

Tori Amos has consistently blurred, moved, or altogether erased the line separating absurdity and profundity, from her cryptic/silly lyrics to her daffy interviews, all the way down to liner notes tha

Stereolab: Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night

Stereolab spearheaded the exotica revival, reminded fans of the wonders of krautrock, and helped ensure that Burt Bacharach's inevitable return would meet with at least a modicum of fad-fueled appreci

Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals: Burn to Shine

Ben Harper has never feared the dangers that come with stylistic risks, having tried his hand at everything from hard-rock muscle-flexing to jam-band noodling, to singer-songwriterly balladeering. He'

Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile

Crossover popularity tends to corrupt an artist's standing as an independent creative entity: Sell too many records and you're dismissed as a cog in a giant, lucrative machine. International stardom m

Underworld: Beaucoup Fish

Just as quickly as Underworld emerged at the forefront of the media-constructed electronica movement with the unlikely hit "Born Slippy [Nuxx]" (from the Trainspotting soundtrack), the techno trio shi

Noreaga: Melvin Flynt Tha Hustler

As half of the hip-hop duo CNN, Noreaga helped spark a Queensbridge renaissance with The War Report. But after that release, his partner Capone was sent away to prison for an extended stay, while Nore

Everything But The Girl: Temperamental

For much of the '80s, Everything But The Girl remained a beautiful but forgettable cult act, like Sade minus the boffo lite-rock success. But things changed in the band's favor when house maven Todd T

Indigo Girls: Come On Now Social

After more than a decade of relative stardom, Emily Saliers and Amy Ray aren't about to mess with their formula: Divided about evenly between strident, rough-edged, down-home attitude (songs sung by R

Method Man & Redman: Blackout!

Even before they began collaborating regularly, Method Man and Redman shared more than just similar names. Both established themselves as standout members of prominent crews, both developed their skil

Creed: Human Clay

As much as everyone bags on Michael Bolton, he seems to have been as powerful an influence on popular dirge-rock bands as the more obvious culprits, Alice In Chains and Pearl Jam. Granted, you'd have

Supergrass: Supergrass

Supergrass' self-titled third album opens with "Moving," a track so stirringly bright that it sets an almost impossibly high standard for the songs that follow. A string-laden bit of acoustic contempl

Paul McCartney: Run Devil Run

It's the end of the 20th century, in case you haven't been paying attention, and as it comes to a close, so does the first half-century of rock 'n' roll. And just as the general cultural climate feels

The Bloodhound Gang: Hooray For Boobies

There's perverse irony in the history of Nerf Herder: Perhaps the most calculatedly disposable band in modern-day rock history, it's one of the few to achieve immortality, recording the unmistakable t

David Bowie: hours...

It's the end of the 20th century, in case you haven't been paying attention, and as it comes to a close, so does the first half-century of rock 'n' roll. And just as the general cultural climate feels