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

D'Angelo will sing no line before its time. But after a five-year wait, "Voodoo" is still spontaneous, dynamic, and sometimes oddly unfinished.

Imagine the twentieth century without Elvis. Sony already has (for $329), but smaller labels are reeling in the last 100 years more intelligently.

Their names are Beck and Prince (or something like that), and they are funky. Unfortunately, they're also very conflicted.

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.

On Garth Brooks's new album, the cat in the hat comes back -- as a greasy-haired rock star with a soul patch and an attitude.

Hard on the heels of his recent arrest, Puff Daddy releases his long-awaited album. Does it explain the life of rap's most celebrated producer? Nah.

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

Hip-hop is still responding to the sonic gauntlet thrown down by Missy Elliott on her debut. On 'Da Real World,' she rises to her own challenge.

The media has gone gaga for European electronica, but the real story in dance music is happening right here in the New York clubs.