- May 17, 1999
- Mi Vida Loca
One song at the Grammys changed Latin pop star Ricky Martin's life -- but newly minted crossover status doesn't guarantee a good record.
- April 12, 1999
- Learning to Reed
Downtown Jewish jazz artists are coming out of the closet, blowing contemporary twists on klezmer riffs for enthusiastic audiences. Is anyone uptown listening?
- March 29, 1999
- Voodoo Child
The willfully unpredictable jazz singer Cassandra Wilson -- equally comfortable with Cyndi Lauper and Bill Evans -- conjures the spirit of Miles Davis on her new album.
- March 22, 1999
- Grass Roots
Country renegade Steve Earle defied his record label -- and gave up his contract -- to make a traditional bluegrass album with the Del McCoury Band.
- February 22, 1999
- Rushmore: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
- February 22, 1999
- Glamorama
Theater and rock have made many an ill-fated match, but the cast album of the Off Broadway glam-rock musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" proves a thrilling exception.
- February 1, 1999
- I'm With the Band
Righteous rocker Ani DiFranco, famous for doing it all herself, puts together her very first group -- and creates her best album yet.
- January 18, 1999
- Is Glass Half Empty?
Philip Glass still can't get the respect of the music Establishment -- not because he's too minimalist and post-modern; now it's because he's too lush and romantic.
- September 28, 1998
- Love and Desire
Hole's new album finds Courtney Love reinventing herself as a rocker (that again); on "Is This Desire?," P. J. Harvey tries just about everything on for size.
- September 28, 1998
- In Brief:
Robbie Fulks, Divine Comedy, and Elliott Smith

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