Music

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the third album by Marshall Mathers (otherwise known as Eminem) The Eminem Show.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the new CD by Andrew W.K. Its called I Get Wet.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Bonnie Raitt's new album, Silver Lining.

The Oh Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack sold more than 4 million copies. This surge of interest in american roots music prompted many of the performers to go on the road together in the Down From the Mountain tour. Critic Milo Miles caught up with them in Boston.

Rock historian Ed Ward profiles Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks. There's a new compilation of their music, The Most of Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks.

World music critic Milo Miles profiles Indigedisc, a new record label that specializes in vintage and current African pop.

Rock critic Ken Tucker looks at two very different female musicians: Gillian Welch, whose new CD is Time The Revelator, and Nikka Costa, whose debut release is Everybody Got their Something.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Thrill Jockey, the new CD from the Chicago Underground Quartet. He also talks about a new re-issue of Miles Davis Live at the Fillmore East recordings.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews –Fear Not the Obvious— (Bloodshot Records) the debut album by a group called the Yayhoos.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews the New edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians.