Jon Caramanica

  • Cryin' shame

    Shaped up, shipped out ... and feelin' so blue. The image of the melancholy soldier has become country music's money shot.
  • Sharps & Flats

    Socially conscious hip-hop pioneers the Jungle Brothers find the dance floor. Pointlessness ensues.
  • Sharps & Flats

    Wu-Tang Clan's grandest gastronome, Ghostface Killah, slips between chaotic crime and silly non sequiturs.
  • Sharps & Flats

    A compilation of songs from this year's Grammy nominees aims for the hearts of soccer moms and Shrieking Teenage Girls.
  • Sharps & Flats

    Tina Turner moves into house; Wynonna dives under the covers.
  • Sharps & Flats

    New Jack Swingers Guy killed old-school R&B. On "III," the trio gets what's coming.
  • Sharps & Flats

    Ol' Dirty Bastard, Akinyele and Blowfly deliver sextastic anthems, freaknasty odes to oral sex and chocolate dildos for Christmas.

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