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Blink 182: Enema Of The State

It's easy to dismiss Blink 182 as pop-punk for Maxim readers: After all, the group's brashly stupid, simple, two-and-a-half-minute songs rarely stray from the limited perspective of a bunch of clueles

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Californication

It can't have been easy for Red Hot Chili Peppers to make Californication, the group's first album since 1995's generally disappointing One Hot Minute. After all, at this point, any Red Hot Chili Pepp

Smash Mouth: Astro Lounge

As the mid- and late '90s become nostalgia fodder, certain songs will inevitably wind up on 2010's equivalent of The Wedding Singer soundtrack: There'll be Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping," of course, and

Pavement: Terror Twilight

It's hard to believe that Pavement has made it to the five-album mark. Formed in Stockton, California, by lo-fi-loving smartasses Steve Malkmus (then just S.M.) and Scott Kannberg (a.k.a. Spiral Stair

The Donnas: Get Skintight

There's a lot of hype about The Donnas right now, but it's been hard to glean much information about the band besides the fact that it consists of four barely post-high-school women who play elemental

The Apples In Stereo: Her Wallpaper Reverie

After dusting off and revitalizing some of the best elements of '60s pop on its most recent album, Tone Soul Evolution, it might seem that The Apples In Stereo has gone to the dark side by releasing a

Ministry: Dark Side Of The Spoon

Al Jourgensen has rarely made it easy on his fans. His band Ministry's most popular album, 1992's Psalm 69, was delayed for ages, ultimately delivering a mere six songs that hadn't already been releas

Sway & King Tech: This Or That

Rap is perhaps the most postmodern of all popular musical genres, with its releases routinely challenging conventional ideas about ownership, authorship, and originality. And perhaps no element of rap

The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin

There's a lot to be said for bands that can strip music down to its rawest essentials, bypassing technique for simple, direct melody and/or power. But there's even more to be said for those who add on

The Chemical Brothers: Surrender

Conventional wisdom dictates that, in order to find mainstream success in electronic music, you'll have to traffic in something more crowd-pleasing than amorphous grinding, tripped-out bleeps and bloo

Lootpack: Soundpieces: Da Antidote!

Alongside like-minded compatriots Tha Alkaholiks, Xzibit, Defari, and WhoRidas, Lootpack is part of a newly revitalized West Coast underground dedicated to creating original, lyrically inventive hip h

Macy Gray: On How Life Is

For much of the '90s, R&B has creatively struggled as a genre, its practitioners frequently torn between the traditions of soul and blues and the cultural juggernaut that is hip hop. Even now, with th

They Might Be Giants: Long Tall Weekend

Emerging MP3 digital-audio technology has already done wonders for acts whose hands have been tied by ill-fitting major-label deals. Web-savvy bands with sizable followings but little mainstream succe

Guided By Voices: Do The Collapse

"Are you amplified to rock?," Robert Pollard asked on the opening track of Guided By Voices' breakthrough album, 1994's Bee Thousand. Part of that album's charm, and GBV's initial appeal, was that Pol

Memphis Bleek: Coming Of Age

Being closely associated with a big star can be both a blessing and a curse. Obviously, Memphis Bleek should be grateful for the attention he's received as Jay-Z's protege and would-be successor, but

Alison Krauss: Forget About It

Kim Richey's songwriting and singing have helped hoist numerous stars onto the country charts, but even 1997's excellent Bitter Sweet failed to find a huge audience for one of Nashville's most deservi

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Echo

In the two decades since the release of the 1979 classic Damn The Torpedoes, Tom Petty has maintained enough creative and commercial consistency to support a great five-disc box set (1995's Playback),

Mary J. Blige: Mary

For much of the '90s, R&B has creatively struggled as a genre, its practitioners frequently torn between the traditions of soul and blues and the cultural juggernaut that is hip hop. Even now, with th

Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire: Oh! The Grandeur

Occasional Squirrel Nut Zippers fiddler Andrew Bird's unveiling as a solo artist could not have been more precariously timed. Arriving with his relatively high-profile Rykodisc debut Thrills just as s

Me'shell NdegeOcello: Bitter

Me'shell NdegeOcello has experienced dizzying hype, a left-field hit (singing alongside John Mellencamp on the 1994 Van Morrison cover "Wild Night"), a bit of a sophomore slump, and now, with Bitter,