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With "Dangerously in Love," Beyonce Knowles serves up a sultry solo debut oozing with '70s-style R&B. She's got real diva-superstar potential -- but is that a blessing or a curse?
By Shannon Zimmerman
July 1, 2003
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For all his excellent hair and alterna-hunk packaging, prospective rock god Pete Yorn is no Bruce in waiting. In fact, he's everything that's wrong with rock right now.
By Kevin Canfield
May 27, 2003
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Kelly Clarkson has a golden future, right? Maybe so. But the "American Idol" winner and her fellow finalists had to sign virtually their entire careers away to the show's producers for one shot at stardom.
By Eric Olsen
September 18, 2002
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Nick Krgovich and Larissa Loyva's debut album, "When It's Dark and It's Summer," invites listeners on an experimental, chilled-out pop adventure. Listen in.
By Murray Jason
August 29, 2002
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Insiders suggest that the broadcasting giant gave an obscure singer major airplay to promote its pricey new market-research program.
By Eric Boehlert
June 25, 2002
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Radio-station owners are shocked -- shocked!-- as the music industry's payola scandal widens. Record-label execs aren't buying it (and neither should you).
By Eric Boehlert
June 25, 2002
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Anointed by the desperate music media as pop's new king, Moby brings electronica to the masses with "18." (Now if only he would stop trying to sing.)
By Michelle Goldberg
June 4, 2002
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Part '80s musical retrospective, part angry social document and all booty-thumping housequake, Prince's 1987 classic stands as pop's last great double album.
By Bomani Jones
March 11, 2002
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The father of a 5-year-old gets lost in a world of slutty virgins, massive makeup cases and frighteningly accurate anatomically correct dolls.
By Jim DeRogatis
December 3, 2001
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Famous virgin Britney Spears now admits she's tempted. Something's changing in the way she teases us.
By Chris Colin
May 29, 2001
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Just because you've never heard of the Chicago quintet Frisbie doesn't mean that they're not one of the best, most ambitious pop bands in America.
By John Jeremiah Sullivan
August 2, 2000
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Why now, after 34 years, is Brian Wilson revisiting "Pet Sounds"?
By Geoff Edgers
August 2, 2000
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Everclear take one last swing at the great entirety of American pop music. Whiff!
By Joey Sweeney
August 1, 2000
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Soul singer Kina has a background like Sheryl Crow, a voice like Tina Turner and a debut record so good it makes you forget how silly the words are.
By Bruce Van Ness
July 25, 2000
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Singer k.d. lang's lazy, languorous voice finds itself an "Invincible Summer."
By Charles Taylor
July 10, 2000
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Teen trio Hanson grows up on "This Time Around." But will they still have an audience willing to listen?
By David Cantwell
May 11, 2000
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The hip-hop songstress says she wrote and produced her multiplatinum album. A lawsuit contends that's not the whole truth. Behind the case is a bigger question: What is a pop song, anyway?
By Rodd McLeod
May 10, 2000
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As a band, Sarge never knew how good they were. Fortunately, their post-break album "distant" makes a decent epitaph.
By Charles Taylor
May 4, 2000
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Listening to the sound of deserts and canyons, Beachwood Sparks ride a California dream.
By Carrie Havranek
April 17, 2000
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Swedish popsters Cinnamon have the singer, the songs and the sheen. They're like the Cardigans -- for smart people.
By Joey Sweeney
April 12, 2000
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The new reality series "Making the Band" exposes the emasculating truth about boy bands.
By Joyce Millman
April 3, 2000
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Aqua's radio confections match pomo knowingness with sugar-shocked swells. The insidious result: Pop that eats itself.
By Michelle Goldberg
March 28, 2000
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On "Buildings and Grounds," Boston trio Papas Fritas prefer precious pretense to prescient emotion.
By Seth Mnookin
March 7, 2000
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Iran's strict laws have created two cultures: The official and the real.
By Vivienne Walt
February 24, 2000
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Tina Turner moves into house; Wynonna dives under the covers.
By Jon Caramanica
February 18, 2000
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