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  • Burn, sacred cow, burn!

    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

  • Sharps & flats

    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

  • Here comes a Nazarene ... looks good in a magazine

    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

  • Russell Simmons

    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

  • No fear of an MP3 planet

    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

  • Unhip-hop

    It's the out-of-touch adults, not kids, who misread music lyrics.
    By -- Stephanie Zacharek April 26, 1999

  • I wrote about Michiko Kakutani and lived to tell the tale

    By Susan Lehman November 5, 1998

  • The Shadow Sheds Light

    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

  • The Connells

    Sharps & Flats is a weekly music review roundup in Salon Magazine.
    By Gavin McNett May 27, 1998

  • Sharps and Flats: Morcheeba

    A review of Morcheeba's "Big Calm" from China Records.
    By Frederick Woodruff March 24, 1998

  • G-love and Special Sauce

    Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
    By Natasha Stovall November 11, 1997

  • Sharps and Flats: wyclef jean

    By Natasha Stovall July 26, 1997

  • Carnival

    By Natasha Stovall July 25, 1997

  • Easy Listening for Armageddon

    By Roni Sarig July 24, 1997
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