- March 6, 2000
- Bold Ambition
As teen pop shimmies up the charts, Air and William Orbit are hooked on classics and Femi Kuti is reinventing Afro pop. Auteurism, anyone?
- February 14, 2000
- Soul's Survivor
D'Angelo will sing no line before its time. But after a five-year wait, "Voodoo" is still spontaneous, dynamic, and sometimes oddly unfinished.
- December 6, 1999
- Sale of a Century
Imagine the twentieth century without Elvis. Sony already has (for $329), but smaller labels are reeling in the last 100 years more intelligently.
- November 29, 1999
- Funk Soul Brothers
Their names are Beck and Prince (or something like that), and they are funky. Unfortunately, they're also very conflicted.
- November 8, 1999
- Chart Failure
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.
- October 11, 1999
- Rockin' Country's Boat
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.
- September 6, 1999
- Sour Puff
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.
- August 9, 1999
- True Believer
Rock and roll may be out of fashion, but Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band prove that emotional and artistic daring outlasts pop.
- June 28, 1999
- Missy in Action
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.
- June 21, 1999
- House Afire
The media has gone gaga for European electronica, but the real story in dance music is happening right here in the New York clubs.

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