Pop, jazz, and classical.

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• Nature's Rejects The music of the castrati.
  Jan Swafford Nov. 9, 2009
  
• 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
  
• Creed Is Good Scott Stapp's nu-grunge foursome was seriously underrated.
  Jonah Weiner Oct. 21, 2009
  
• Fall in Love With Paramore It's like Green Day fronted by a 20-year-old Christian girl from Tennessee.
  Jonah Weiner Oct. 6, 2009
  
• Can Miley Cyrus Save Health Care Reform? The pop starlet's new single is great, goofy—and bipartisan!—fun.
  Jonah Weiner Sept. 29, 2009
  
• Tramps Like Us The birth of Born To Run.
  Louis P. Masur Sept. 22, 2009
  
• The Last Sellouts Pearl Jam's brilliant new single, brought to you by Target.
  Jonah Weiner Sept. 9, 2009
  
• Beatles for Sale The missing songs that would have made the new box set a classic.
  Colin Fleming Sept. 8, 2009
  
• Silence Is Golden How a pause can be the most devastating effect in music.
  Jan Swafford Aug. 31, 2009
  
• Kind of Blue Why the best-selling jazz album of all time is so great.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 17, 2009
  
• Does This Purple Mink Make Me Look Gay? The rise of no homo and the changing face of hip-hop homophobia.
  Jonah Weiner Aug. 6, 2009
  
• Acquitting Himself Nicely On his new mix tape, R. Kelly returns to his hilarious, virtuosic, pretrial form.
  Jonah Weiner June 23, 2009
  
• How Smart Is Lady Gaga? Pop's most pretentious starlet.
  Jonah Weiner June 16, 2009
  
• This American Composer Why you should listen to Charles Ives.
  Jan Swafford June 1, 2009
  
• Grunge's Long Shadow In praise of "in-between" periods in pop history.
  Simon Reynolds May 29, 2009
  
• "I Am Looking for Wife 1,000" Prince Zimboo, hip-hop's African Borat.
  Jonah Weiner May 26, 2009
  
• Neuromántico Meet the cyberpunk of reggaetón.
  Jody Rosen May 19, 2009
  
• Over the Hump The Black Eyed Peas' inescapable, incoherent, irresistible new song.
  Jonah Weiner May 13, 2009
  
• Do Da Stanky Legg Odd gems from the most indie Billboard chart.
  Jody Rosen May 5, 2009
  
• Dead Reckoning What your favorite Grateful Dead song says about you.
  John Swansburg April 29, 2009
  
• What Is Bob Dylan Laughing At? Singing about love and loss, he still finds something to cackle about.
  John Dickerson April 27, 2009
  
• Flukes of the Universe A brief history of the spoken-word pop hit.
  Douglas Wolk April 20, 2009
  
• Was Limp Bizkit Really That Bad? Why the most hated band ever deserves another listen.
  Jonah Weiner April 14, 2009
  
• When Rock Stars Read Edmund Spenser The eight most pretentious lyrics from the new Decemberists album.
  Jody Rosen April 9, 2009
  
• Kings of Rock Run-DMC at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
  Jody Rosen April 7, 2009
  
• Monk's Art How do you pay homage to the inimitable Thelonious Monk?
  Fred Kaplan March 10, 2009
  
• Great Composers, Lousy Reviews When music critics attack.
  Jan Swafford Feb. 3, 2009
  
• Karaoke Rage When innocent singing turns violent.
  Brian Raftery Jan. 27, 2009
  
• It Was All a Dream How Biggie changed hip-hop.
  Jody Rosen Jan. 15, 2009