DJ Shadow
The Private Press (MCA)
Eminem
The Eminem Show (Aftermath)

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

For pure vocal wizardry, you can’t beat the new albums by Dizzee Rascal, the British rapper, and Björk, the Icelandic chanteuse.

Cologne’s Kompakt label has gained much unlikely U.S. renown by making techno sort of sweet.

On the experimental, adventurous "Kid A," Radiohead shuns literate wordplay for an abstract, emotional vocabulary of sound.

Rock and roll may be out of fashion, but Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band prove that emotional and artistic daring outlasts pop.

Once just for raves, ecstasy is now all the rage -- the favorite party pill of Wall Streeters, prep-school kids, and mall rats alike. Smugglers (JFK is their favorite route) may be the most ecstatic of all -- but the government is definitely not amused.

Nas seeks out hip-hop supremacy with his double CD Street’s Disciple.

I watch The Apprentice. I like when he tells ’em “You’re fired!”