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Nature's Rejects
The music of the castrati.  
Jan Swafford   Nov 09, 2009   Music Box  
Is It OK To Like Chris Brown's New Single?
What to do when a bad person makes a good song.  
Jonah Weiner   Oct 29, 2009   Music Box  
Creed Is Good
Scott Stapp's nu-grunge foursome was seriously underrated.  
Jonah Weiner   Oct 21, 2009   Music Box  
Fall in Love With Paramore
It's like Green Day fronted by a 20-year-old Christian girl from Tennessee.  
Jonah Weiner   Oct 06, 2009   Music Box  
Can Miley Cyrus Save Health Care Reform?
The pop starlet's new single is great, goofy—and bipartisan!—fun.  
Jonah Weiner   Sep 29, 2009   Music Box  
Tramps Like Us
The birth of Born To Run.  
Louis P. Masur   Sep 22, 2009   Music Box  
The Last Sellouts
Pearl Jam's brilliant new single, brought to you by Target.  
Jonah Weiner   Sep 09, 2009   Music Box  
Beatles for Sale
The missing songs that would have made the new box set a classic.  
Colin Fleming   Sep 08, 2009   Music Box  
Silence Is Golden
How a pause can be the most devastating effect in music.  
Jan Swafford   Aug 31, 2009   Music Box  
Kind of Blue
Why the best-selling jazz album of all time is so great.  
Fred Kaplan   Aug 17, 2009   Music Box  
Does This Purple Mink Make Me Look Gay?
The rise of no homo and the changing face of hip-hop homophobia.  
Jonah Weiner   Aug 06, 2009   Music Box  
Acquitting Himself Nicely
On his new mix tape, R. Kelly returns to his hilarious, virtuosic, pretrial form.  
Jonah Weiner   Jun 23, 2009   Music Box  
How Smart Is Lady Gaga?
Pop's most pretentious starlet.  
Jonah Weiner   Jun 16, 2009   Music Box  
This American Composer
Why you should listen to Charles Ives.  
Jan Swafford   Jun 01, 2009   Music Box  
Grunge's Long Shadow
In praise of "in-between" periods in pop history.  
Simon Reynolds   May 29, 2009   Music Box  
"I Am Looking for Wife 1,000"
Prince Zimboo, hip-hop's African Borat.  
Jonah Weiner   May 26, 2009   Music Box  
Neuromántico
Meet the cyberpunk of reggaetón.  
Jody Rosen   May 19, 2009   Music Box  
Over the Hump
The Black Eyed Peas' inescapable, incoherent, irresistible new song.  
Jonah Weiner   May 13, 2009   Music Box  
Do Da Stanky Legg
Odd gems from the most indie Billboard chart.  
Jody Rosen   May 05, 2009   Music Box  
Dead Reckoning
What your favorite Grateful Dead song says about you.  
John Swansburg   Apr 29, 2009   Music Box  
What Is Bob Dylan Laughing At?
Singing about love and loss, he still finds something to cackle about.  
John Dickerson   Apr 27, 2009   Music Box  
Flukes of the Universe
A brief history of the spoken-word pop hit.  
Douglas Wolk   Apr 20, 2009   Music Box  
Was Limp Bizkit Really That Bad?
Why the most hated band ever deserves another listen.  
Jonah Weiner   Apr 14, 2009   Music Box  
When Rock Stars Read Edmund Spenser
The eight most pretentious lyrics from the new Decemberists album.  
Jody Rosen   Apr 09, 2009   Music Box  
Kings of Rock
Run-DMC at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  
Jody Rosen   Apr 07, 2009   Music Box  
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