Pop, jazz, and classical.

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• Top 10 Jazz Albums of 2008 Crowned by one immortal recording.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 18, 2008
  
• Beethoven and the Illuminati How the secret order influenced the great composer.
  Jan Swafford Dec. 8, 2008
  
• What's an 808? A drum machine's journey from obscurity to ubiquity.
  Chris Richards Dec. 2, 2008
  
• Kanye West Throws a Pity Party Is 808s and Heartbreak his most vulnerable album or his most arrogant?
  Jonah Weiner Dec. 2, 2008
  
• Doppelgänger Pop Does Beyoncé Knowles really need an alter ego?
  Jonah Weiner Nov. 25, 2008
  
• Welcome to the Jumble Axl Rose and the epically messy Chinese Democracy.
  Jody Rosen Nov. 21, 2008
  
• Ladies! I Can't Hear You! No, Really, I Can't Hear You! Where did all the female rappers go?
  Jonah Weiner Nov. 6, 2008
  
• Still Current Thirty years of AC/DC.
  James Parker Oct. 29, 2008
  
• Learning by Ear The many moods of John Adams.
  Nathan Heller Oct. 14, 2008
  
• The Big Rewind How The Rest Is Noise changes our understanding of 20th-century music.
  Jan Swafford Sept. 23, 2008
  
• First Diva Carla Bruni proves that it's possible to be too French.
  Jody Rosen Sept. 16, 2008
  
• The New Outlaw in Town Why you should listen to Jamey Johnson.
  Jody Rosen Sept. 9, 2008
  
• Korean Parents for Sale Randy Newman's on-target race humor.
  Jeff Chang Sept. 2, 2008
  
• Ligeti: A Sound Odyssey Remembering the genius whom Stanley Kubrick stole music from.
  Jan Swafford July 29, 2008
  
• Extraordinary Renditions The problem of cross-genre covers.
  Jonah Weiner July 18, 2008
  
• ****** ** Why do bands give themselves unprintable names?
  Hua Hsu June 23, 2008
  
• The Cure for the Common Coldplay The band's surprising new album.
  Jonah Weiner June 16, 2008
  
• Bach on Top How one of the most esoteric musical works ever written became an unlikely hit.
  Jan Swafford May 13, 2008
  
• Bigger Than Elvis Why the haters are wrong about Mariah Carey.
  Jody Rosen April 29, 2008
  
• The Gnarls Barkley Problem They want to be Sly Stone. They're more like Beck.
  Jody Rosen April 9, 2008
  
• Death by Oboe How acoustic instruments torment their players.
  Jan Swafford April 8, 2008
  
• Words Words Words Are excessive lyrics ruining pop music?
  William Weir March 11, 2008
  
• The Salinger of Indie Rock What happened to Jeff Mangum?
  Taylor Clark Feb. 26, 2008
  
• Silent, Spooky The soundtracks for No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood.
  Jan Swafford Feb. 19, 2008
  
• Dark Star Why Amy Winehouse is not just a celebrity train wreck.
  Jody Rosen Feb. 12, 2008
  
• Hazlewood Rebooted Lost treasures from the psychedelic cowboy whom rock snobs love to love.
  Jody Rosen Jan. 30, 2008
  
• We Should Be Whispering All the Time A new album from the Magnetic Fields.
  Jody Rosen Jan. 15, 2008