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Lefty weeklies turn on their idols. Plus: Ben is Dead dies, the 17th Annual Testicle Festival and the boy who said yes -- and lived.
By Jenn Shreve
October 8, 1999
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Thug rapper Eve's assertive female raps would sound even more radical at the top of the charts if the countrified Dixie Chicks weren't telling the exact same stories.
By Jon Dolan
October 4, 1999
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Puff Daddy's audacious "Forever" captures a paranoid success spitting in the face of his own demise. Is the Ebenezer Scrooge of rap losing it?
By Jon Dolan
September 16, 1999
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Unable to translate critical success into mainstream sales, Me'Shell Ndegeocello ends up "Bitter."
By Alex Pappademas
September 10, 1999
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Quite contrary: Mary J. Blige transforms herself into the first diva with both feet on the ground.
By Jon Dolan
September 2, 1999
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Who dropped the Bomb? The "Contents Under Pressure" compilation oddly normalizes hip-hop's avant-garde.
By D. Strauss
August 26, 1999
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Kool Keith is an alien. Kool Keith is Elvis. But why isn't the rapper weird anymore?
By Alex Pappademas
August 20, 1999
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On "Juxtapose," the Bristol MC negotiates the tension between B-boy roots and raw, tender soul.
By Michelle Goldberg
August 17, 1999
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I'm the lamest craze: Macy Gray is nothing but a new soul pretender.
By Kandia Crazy Horse
August 10, 1999
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Wigga wit attitude: Why white hip-hopper G. Love needs to ditch his "Amos 'n' Andy" routine.
By Joe Heim
August 3, 1999
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The founder of Def Jam Records brought hip-hop culture into the
American mainstream, and his empire is growing.
By Jeff Stark
July 6, 1999
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Gang Starr introduced the hip-hop nation to jazz, but a new retrospective proves that you don't have to blame them for letting vital music devolve into bourgeois R&B.
By D. Strauss
July 1, 1999
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On Luscious Jackson's new record, "Electric Honey," the all-female hip-hop trio turns 30. And evolves.
By Andrew Strickman
June 30, 1999
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"The Wake-Up Show" DJs Sway and King Tech spin like true old-schoolers. Too bad "This or That" props snotty gangsta bullshit like NWA instead of Afrika Bambaattaa.
By Michelle Goldberg
June 21, 1999
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Cibo Matto's "Viva! La Woman" rewired hip hop in the same way that riot grrrls reinvented punk. What happened on "Stereotype A"?
By Jon Dolan
June 9, 1999
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As Public Enemy embraces new music technology and takes on the recording industry, it's also helping smash the Web's lily-white image.
By Janelle Brown
June 1, 1999
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It's the out-of-touch adults, not kids, who misread music lyrics.
By -- Stephanie Zacharek
April 26, 1999
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By Susan Lehman
November 5, 1998
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Josh Davis, a.k.a. DJ Shadow, goes on the record about his latest project, 'Psyence Fiction,' the debut album from UNKLE.
By Adam Heimlich
September 23, 1998
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Sharps & Flats is a weekly music review roundup in Salon Magazine.
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May 27, 1998
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A review of Morcheeba's "Big Calm" from China Records.
By Frederick Woodruff
March 24, 1998
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Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
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July 25, 1997
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