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AC/DC: Stiff Upper Lip

There's something oddly reassuring about AC/DC. Now 34 years and 17 albums into its career, the band still churns out the kind of juvenile hard rock it was making when its members were, well, juvenile

Oasis: Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants

Like the group's heroes in The Stone Roses, Oasis rose to international fame and fortune by creating perfect three-minute pop tracks, then promptly decided that what the public really wanted was endle

Rollins Band: Get Some Go Again

It's easy to bag on Pantera for its hair-metal roots—especially when the band is so hell-bent on suppressing them while voicing its abhorrence of all things trendy—but at least it's stuck to the bruta

Steely Dan: Two Against Nature

Steely Dan was one of the most curious—and, by nature of its mammoth popularity, most subversive—bands of the '70s. Songwriters Walter Becker and Donald Fagen refused to tour, choosing instead to retr

Beanie Sigel: The Truth

In hip-hop, establishing yourself as part of a powerful label and crew is as close as a new act can get to being a commercial sure thing. Beanie Sigel has the good fortune to have Jay-Z as a mentor, b

The Smashing Pumpkins: MACHINA / the machines of God

Though he's frequently maligned as a bombastic, egomaniacal control freak, it seems Billy Corgan's fans don't want him any other way. How else to explain the deafening backlash that greeted him upon t

Nerf Herder: How To Meet Girls

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

Black Rob: Life Story

In hip-hop, establishing yourself as part of a powerful label and crew is as close as a new act can get to being a commercial sure thing. Beanie Sigel has the good fortune to have Jay-Z as a mentor, b

Pedro The Lion: Winners Never Quit

Defining music by genre often entails the application of a prefix to the word "rock," like "indie-rock," "emo-rock," "stoner-rock," and so on. That sort of shorthand is an inevitable yet inherently di

dead prez: Let's Get Free

The political impulse in rap music tends to come and go, but the past few years have been extraordinarily good for enlightened hip-hop, with stellar releases by Black Star, Mos Def, Lauryn Hill, The C

Joe Satriani: Engines Of Creation

Among the many lasting cultural changes wrought by alternative rock is a general public disdain for guitar gods, the axe-wielding superstars whose notes-per-second agility and technical prowess make t

Eels: Daisies Of The Galaxies

Electro-Shock Blues, Eels' 1998 album, is a stunning song cycle about death, grief, and transcendence. It also raised the question of how the band could ever match such a conceptually pure record. Dai

Pantera: Reinventing The Steel

It's easy to bag on Pantera for its hair-metal roots—especially when the band is so hell-bent on suppressing them while voicing its abhorrence of all things trendy—but at least it's stuck to the bruta

Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now

"The Last Time I Saw Richard," the closing track of her 1971 masterpiece Blue, finds a disillusioned Joni Mitchell spending time "hidin' behind bottles in dark cafes" while thinking of a way out. A so

Aqua: Aquarius

It's the same old story, if not the same old sound: Big in Britain for a few years, the Welsh band Catatonia now faces the daunting prospect of trying to make it in America. But, unlike many of its co

Death Cab For Cutie: We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes

When it comes to diversity, pop music puts the Reform Party to shame: For a brief time, the would-be reformers included Jesse Ventura, Warren Beatty, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and more. But pop as a g

Patti Smith: Gung Ho

Patti Smith treats her profession less as an occupation than as a revival of some long-forgotten class of warrior poet. She may be the only one capable of pulling it off, but she's so good at it that

Goldfinger: Stomping Ground

Goldfinger's new single, "Counting The Days," is an arena-sized pop-punk anthem that's so chant-along catchy, it can't help but prolong the group's stay in the nation's limited pop-cultural memory ban

Common: Like Water For Chocolate

The artist formerly known as Common Sense first appeared on the hip-hop scene in the early '90s as a Chicago B-boy peddling clever, facile, punchline-heavy rhymes packed with pop-culture references. I

Smog: Dongs Of Sevotion

For most of the '90s, Bill Callahan (a.k.a. Smog) was revered as the moody king of the home-recording ring. His last few releases, however, have revealed a newfound affinity for high fidelity, a chang