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Sleater-Kinney: The Hot Rock

It's way too easy to anoint Sleater-Kinney the savior of rock 'n' roll, as many have since the band's self-titled debut CD came out in 1995: After all, the all-woman trio has energy, chops, and hooks;
The Roots: Things Fall Apart

The continued commercial success of rap music means that the turnaround between the discovery of new talent and superstardom is nearly nil. After all, why sweat the technique when Puff Daddy and Maste
TLC: Fanmail

TLC's most recent album—the 1994 breakthrough Crazysexycool, a collection of laid-back R&B songs that showcase a warm, mature group—sold 10 million copies and earned accolades from countless critics e
Eminem: The Slim Shady LP

Five or six years ago, during the height of Death Row's stranglehold on the hip-hop charts, the release of an album by a Dr. Dre protégé was both a major event and a commercial sure thing. Dre's star
Jim O'Rourke: Eureka

Producer and multi-instrumentalist Jim O'Rourke began making experimental music at a young age, but a funny thing happened years after he rose to international prominence: He started to write songs. C
Silverchair: Neon Ballroom

If Collective Soul can cast off the shackles of warmed-over grunge and make a decent record (this year's Dosage), why not the Australian teen sensation Silverchair? Listening to the opening moments of
Joe Henry: Fuse

Though Joe Henry has always been a fine pseudo-folk-rocker, until the arrival of his most recent album Trampoline, he was often known as Madonna's brother-in-law first and a talented songwriter second
Frank Black And The Catholics: Pistolero

The first track on Frank Black's fifth solo album picks up pretty much where the last one—the self-titled debut of his band The Catholics—left off, and that's not a bad thing at all. An uneven but gen
Crash Test Dummies: Give Yourself A Hand

With "Superman's Song" and the ubiquitous hit "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm," the Canadian band Crash Test Dummies found ample success with novelty songs in the mid-'90s. But both of those tracks were moodier than
Various Artists: Elton John And Tim Rice's Aida

In the booklet for Aida, Tim Rice's introduction contains what sounds like a more honest sentiment than anything contained in his lyrics: "The Lion King was successful, so Disney asked us to write som
Slick Rick: The Art Of Storytelling

If, God forbid, there is ever a Hip Hop Hall Of Fame, Slick Rick deserves to be among its maiden inductees. Starting with his landmark single "The Show" with Doug E. Fresh and his performance of "Trea
Mogwai: Come On Die Young

It's fascinating how the British frequently latch on en masse to music that could never rise above the underground in America. Scotland's Belle And Sebastian, for example, are U.K. magazine staples, w
Nas: i am...

The press materials for i am…, Nas' long-awaited follow-up to It Was Written, unironically refers to the artist formerly known as Nas Escobar as "a hip-hop Nietzsche." And though both men were bedevil
Fountains Of Wayne: Utopia Parkway

Adam Schlesinger's list of accomplishments in the latter half of the '90s is pretty remarkable: He's made fine records as the drummer for the French-accented pop band Ivy. He was nominated for an Acad
The Cranberries: Bury The Hatchet

Most of The Cranberries' recent hits, from "Zombie" to "Salvation," have lamented the world's atrocities within the context of catchy pop singles, serving up sugar-coated melodies to go with all that
Sloan: 4 Nights At The Palais Royale

When the Nova Scotia guitar-pop band Sloan made its U.S. debut with 1993's Smeared, it was met with indifference, becoming another in a mounting number of modern-rock casualties left in Nirvana's wake
Ben Folds Five: The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner

When Ben Folds Five's self-titled debut came out in 1995, the Chapel Hill band seemed doomed to the novelty ghetto: The hit single "Underground" was a cheeky slice of of-the-moment irony, and the trio
Various Artists: Rawkus Presents: Soundbombing II

Mixed by J-Rocc and Babu of the Beat Junkies and featuring an engaging mixture of big names (Eminem), underground heroes (Tash of Tha Alkaholiks, Mos Def, Common, and Sadat X and Grand Puba of Brand N
Moby: Play

Before dubious acts like The Prodigy put a face to electronic music, Orbital was playing huge venues worldwide on the basis of music alone. Brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll were early ambient-techno pi
Various Artists: Fat Wreck Chords Presents Short Music For Short People

Since punk rock is the very embodiment of "loud fast rules," it makes sense that the genre's youthful energy and snotty attitude often results in some pretty short songs. With only rudimentary instrum

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