Chris Herrington

Each of Atlanta duo Outkast's three previous records refined their Dixie-fried funk a little bit more, but Stankonia -- hard, fast, and chaotic -- is a dramatic leap forward. This is the sound of Prince and George Clinton hooking up with Public Enemy's Bomb Squad for a chitlin circuit tour...

Rising out of the Mississippi hill country earlier this year on the strength of an engaging if uneven debut album, Shake Hands with Shorty, and some overripe hype (a Time magazine spread a few months back was so heavy on down-home mystique that it should have made any actual Southerner...

In terms of quantity and quality of music produced during the decade, Polly Jean Harvey can make as much of a claim to being most significant music maker of the Nineties as anyone. But while all five of her previous albums are astounding aesthetic artifacts, it's hard to put them...

G.O.A.T. stands for “Greatest of All Time,” and while LL Cool J may or may not be the greatest MC ever (I'm sure there's a fella named Rakim who would take exception to that, and Kool Moe Dee is bound to be getting riled up right now just thinking about...

The smart, unflashy white guitar rock known as emo has become the faceless new face of indie, and, in the form of its sophomore effort, Four Cornered Night, genre standard-bearer Jets to Brazil has released the music's most high-profile album. Throughout the record's first five songs, Four Cornered Night sounds...