Pearl Jam started out angry, became eccentric, and finally ended up as classic rock. Too bad their new album won't stand the test of time.

Teen pop may be the future of the music business, but its marketing -- and sound, in Hanson's case -- owe more to another decade: the fifties.

Neil Young sings paeans to Buffalo Springfield as he cashes in on CSNY nostalgia. Of all his musical personas, maybe band member was best?

On his new album, Elliott Smith sounds like the man who came in from the home studio. And he's all the better tackling the world outside his navel.

Cabaret and "Cabaret" star Ute Lemper invites a new generation into the genre by singing Costello and Cave.

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