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Dilated Peoples: The Platform

Cali Agents' super-duo pedigree and underground reputation have led some to dub members Rasco and Planet Asia a West Coast Black Star. But that label is misleading: While Black Star's debut was a dee

Deltron 3030: Deltron 3030

Irresistible enough to give both supergroups and concept albums a good name, Deltron 3030 features Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and the production genius of Dan The Automator (Handsome Boy Modeling Schoo

Bright Eyes: Fevers And Mirrors

Former prodigy Conor Oberst first attracted attention as the 14-year-old leader of Commander Venus in the early '90s. But if you can't stay 14 forever, what do you do? If you're Oberst, you morph into

Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem's angry, profane, nihilistic, and undeniably pop-savvy Slim Shady LP made him a huge star, gave him money, power, and influence, and made him a reluctant teen idol. That last side effect helps

Kid Rock: History Of Rock

You'd never know it from his recent Best New Artist Grammy nomination, but Kid Rock has been around for more than a decade, peddling his blend of Southern-rock aggression and mack-daddy posturing to c

Zion I: Mind Over Matter

If hip-hop is the dead horse its detractors accuse it of being, someone neglected to tell Zion, Khalid, and Amp Live, the three ambitious, idealistic members of Zion I. Like many great rappers from un

Billy Bragg & Wilco: Mermaid Avenue Vol. II

If the whole of American music were reduced to a few key figures, one would surely be Woody Guthrie. The composer of thousands of songs and singer of many more, Guthrie gave back to the American folk

Kasey Chambers: The Captain

Despite nearly unanimous critical acclaim, some have suggested that country singer Kasey Chambers' Australian origins make her debut album The Captain less authentic than the work of her American coun

Belle And Sebastian: Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant

Wit, tunefulness, and emotional directness rarely combine as well as they do for Glasgow's Belle And Sebastian. In many ways, it's seemed too good to last, leading pessimists to look for the first chi

Queens Of The Stone Age: Rated R

Most trends in popular music ultimately do more harm than good: Even if the standard-bearer hits on something special—like, say, Nirvana—the genre du jour almost invariably devolves, producing awful c

Slum Village: Fantastic, Vol. 2

The sonic architect behind A Tribe Called Quest's last two albums, as well as Q-Tip's underwhelming solo debut, producer Jay Dee boasts one of hip-hop's most distinctive production styles, an instantl

Modest Mouse: The Moon & Antarctica

Every once in a while, in an effort to appear cutting-edge and daring, major record labels fall all over themselves trying to sign volatile, prolific, inconsistent, willfully uncommercial bands to lon

Jurassic 5: Quality Control

Reverence for the old school and its musical pioneers has long been a calling card of hip-hop's underground. But few have taken their affection for the genre's fabled beginnings as far as Jurassic 5,

k.d. lang: Invincible Summer

If there has been one unifying factor in k.d. lang's path to stardom, it's been her willingness to take risks, whether by expanding the boundaries (momentarily, anyway) of what could be played on coun

Busta Rhymes: Anarchy

Like Ice Cube, another star drowning in a sea of extracurricular activities, actor, clothing designer, Flipmode kingpin, and Mountain Dew pitchman Busta Rhymes seems less a rapper than a walking, talk

Saint Etienne: Sound Of Water

In 1998, Saint Etienne recruited Cardigans producer Tore Johansson for Good Humour, an album of glorious pure pop that sounded like the best Cardigans record the Cardigans never made. Alas, for an enc

Richard Ashcroft: Alone With Everybody

After seven years of turmoil and a called-off breakup, the career of Northern England's The Verve climaxed in 1997 with the pop classic "Bitter Sweet Symphony." Based on a sample from an orchestral ve

Uncle Kracker: Double Wide

You'd never know it from his recent Best New Artist Grammy nomination, but Kid Rock has been around for more than a decade, peddling his blend of Southern-rock aggression and mack-daddy posturing to c

Coldplay: Parachutes

It's a common and time-honored practice to lament the shortcomings of chart-topping music, but today's most popular acts do seem to lack one crucial element: warmth. With notable exceptions (such as R

Canibus: 2000 B.C.

Canibus' hotly anticipated debut, 1998's underrated Can-I-Bus, was the victim of a largely undeserved backlash that had little to do with its quality and much to do with the hype and controversy surro