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Day One find beauty in the sidewalk cracks without glossing over the British lower-middle-class milieu.
By Michelle Goldberg
March 6, 2000
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Air's "Virgin Suicides" soundtrack sparkles with the sublimated passion of teenage occultism.
By Michelle Goldberg
February 29, 2000
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Cure fans know the band was at its best making shiny, happy pop. So why have the cartoon necrophiliacs gone back to wallowing in muddy gunk?
By Michelle Goldberg
February 17, 2000
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For all its pretentions, William Orbit's "Pieces in a Modern Style" makes for seductive secret listening.
By Michelle Goldberg
February 15, 2000
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On the scattered "Passport," Khan's musical shortcomings upstage a compelling multiple-personality crisis.
By Michelle Goldberg
February 1, 2000
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"Early Modulations" captures the important (and unlistenable) history of turntablism, electronica and drum 'n' bass.
By Michelle Goldberg
January 20, 2000
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Sure, Nancy Sinatra was a lightweight, but 30 years later, the queen of cool still sounds fresh.
By Michelle Goldberg
January 6, 2000
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Creepy and romantic, subtle and strange, the music from "Being John Malkovich" is good enough to stand on its own.
By Michelle Goldberg
December 24, 1999
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On his debut solo album, A Tribe Called Quest rapper Q-Tip shores up his street cred.
By Michelle Goldberg
December 10, 1999
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For some reason, the Underworld let remixers with a lot less talent rework the U.K. outfit's songs.
By Michelle Goldberg
December 7, 1999
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Lauryn Hill and Bob Marley, together at last. But what's Aerosmith doing on this shameless collection of posthumous duets?
By Michelle Goldberg
November 23, 1999
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Forget the solipsistic neurotica of Fiona Apple. On "To the Teeth" righteous babe Ani DiFranco feels the funk and represents Buffalo, N.Y.
By Michelle Goldberg
November 17, 1999
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Aphrodite's first commercial drum 'n' bass record gets at the difference between music for the DJ and music for your stereo.
By Michelle Goldberg
October 27, 1999
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The Charlatans U.K. aren't really an innovative band, but they've got a world-weary confidence that makes for good rock 'n' roll.
By Michelle Goldberg
October 12, 1999
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"Little Louie" Vega's mix of early '90s dance remembers a time when electronic music was still sexy.
By Michelle Goldberg
October 1, 1999
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A new record suggests that Tori Amos' power is inversely proportional to the number of instruments involved.
By Michelle Goldberg
September 22, 1999
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Gay Dad are a controversial sensation in England, proving once again that the only thing that the Brit press likes better than pure pop is overbearing hype.
By Michelle Goldberg
September 20, 1999
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Four years ago, Leftfield were contenders in the Fatboy Slim-Chemical Brothers-Prodigy poptronica pantheon. Now they're back, but where's the hype?
By Michelle Goldberg
September 17, 1999
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The annual Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert invents a hyper-real space, a republic of drugs, nudity and spectacle.
By Michelle Goldberg
September 8, 1999
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The "Stigmata" soundtrack stars Smashing Pumpkin Billy Corgan and his experimental art of demonic composition.
By Michelle Goldberg
September 3, 1999
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DJ Raymond Roker's bleak and claustrophobic "Altered States of Drum & Bass" crushes the warm beats of hip-hop and strangles the gasping voice of house.
By Michelle Goldberg
August 18, 1999
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Growing up all wrong: The anti-electronic anthems of Bis make hypocrites out of youngsters who should know better.
By Michelle Goldberg
August 16, 1999
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The novelist explores the repercussions of a violent act in a town where life ends with high school.
By Michelle Goldberg
July 28, 1999
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With a series of dark acoustic records, Throwing Muses singer Kristin Hersh transformed herself from a post-punk Ophelia into a macabre folk singer. On "Sky Motel," she plugs in again.
By Michelle Goldberg
July 16, 1999
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On "The Seduction of Claude Debussy," Art of Noise offer a playfully pretentious tribute to the father of modern music.
By Michelle Goldberg
July 13, 1999
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