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Oasis gets experimental -- and even a bit modest -- on "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants," but Great Pumpkin Billy Corgan stays self-involved.

As teen pop shimmies up the charts, Air and William Orbit are hooked on classics and Femi Kuti is reinventing Afro pop. Auteurism, anyone?

The magazine heads underground in search of tomorrow's audience.

Hip-hop bootlegging is causing brawls -- even as some industry insiders say it's a blessing.

The drug now threatening clubland is colorless, odorless, and so dangerous even some dealers won't sell it. But you can buy it with a credit card on the Internet.

Rock isn't dead, but it's facing commercial decline, critical dismissals, and even insults from Sting. Three fall releases offer some hope for a cure.

Is this megaclub at the end of its velvet rope?

She reinvented R&B for the nineties with painful, personal songs about love and loss. Now, secure as the self-styled "queen of hip-hop soul," Mary J. Blige is finally getting happy -- her way.

Software millionaires are the new rock stars -- and thanks to Rockstar Games COO Terry Donovan, they're getting a party all their own.