Radiohead! Kanye! My Bloody Valentine! Dylan! Here's what to catch -- and what to skip -- on the festival circuit this summer.
By Judy Berman and Charly Wilder Jun 5, 2008
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The band's new CD debuts at No. 1 on the charts, despite the choose-your-own-price online sales model.
By Farhad Manjoo
January 9, 2008
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How can I go on living in a world where people are so unoriginal?
By Cary Tennis
December 5, 2007
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Just two albums into their career, the members of Arcade Fire are being compared to the legends of rock. Do they deserve it?
March 15, 2007
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As Coldplay's Chris Martin cozies up to Tony Blair, a nation's once proud pop music becomes the sound of its bland, middling, centrist government.
By Brendan O'Neill
June 18, 2005
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The group puts out a physical version of "In Rainbows."
By Farhad Manjoo
January 2, 2008
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A British music site says the band has sold more than a million copies of its name-your-price album.
By Farhad Manjoo
October 11, 2007
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Radiohead's guitarist picks a reggae fave.
March 7, 2007
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Seeing Nirvana's music repurposed to sell video games reminds us of Generation X's failure to produce a rock star of lasting worth.
March 5, 2007
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Results of an informal poll to determine (definitively, of course) the most important band in the world
March 9, 2005
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Forget those boring white boys with guitars. Thanks to Missy, OutKast and Timbaland, for the first time since the Beatles, the most vital forms of pop are found at the top of the charts.
By Thomas Bartlett
January 2, 2004
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Most of Radiohead's new album is pretentious jive. But by fighting their fans' expectations, the dork-rock gods continue to do important things with music -- even if those things aren't musical.
By Joey Sweeney
June 18, 2003
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On their majestic new album, the Icelandic rock orchestrators use maybe a dozen syllables in a made-up language. Fans vote on the translation.
By Dan Kois
November 6, 2002
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Britney grows up, the Strokes get the girls, Bob Dylan pencils a moustache and everyone is mad at the goddamn record industry! Why hype finally failed in 2001.
By Joey Sweeney
December 26, 2001
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Call it the year of the dogs: Woof-woof. Still, there were 25 records worth listening to again and again.
By Joe Heim
December 21, 2000
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By Andy Battaglia, Michelle Goldberg, Andrew Goodwin and Joe Heim
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October 30, 2000
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Is this really an "important" record? Four critics duke it out.
By Andy Battaglia, Michelle Goldberg, Andrew Goodwin and Joe Heim
October 25, 2000
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England's favorite band, Travis, shakes schizophrenia, embraces bummer folk rock.
By Wendy Mitchell
April 20, 2000
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Swing from tall buildings, risk life and appendage ... some people will do anything for attention. Plus: This is Whitney Houston on something, for sure.
By Amy Reiter
March 31, 2000
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Gavin McNett reports from the third annual Tibetan Freedom Concert
By Gavin McNett
June 17, 1998
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Salon contributors answer the question: what was your most significant moment of 1997?
By Cynthia Joyce
December 24, 1997
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By Mark Athitakis
July 17, 1997
Salon's guide to summer music festivals
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