Music Archive: N

Nåid

• Waking Up (Hip-O)

Németh

• Film (Thrill Jockey)

N-Toon

• Toon Time (Dreamworks)

N.E.R.D.

• Fly or Die (Startrak/Virgin)
• N.E.R.D.: Seeing Sounds

N.O.R.E.

• Noreality (Babygrande/Thugged Out Militainment)

N.W.A.

• Straight Outta Compton (Reckless/Priority)
• Feature: Part 4: Heaven 17 to N.W.A. (1981-1988)

N.W.A.

• Straight Outta Compton: 20th Anniversary Edition (Priority)

NMS

• Imperial Letters of Protection (Big Dada)

NOFX

• The Greatest Songs Ever Written By Us (Epitaph)
• The War on Errorism (Fat Wreck)
• They've Actually Gotten Worse Live! (Fat Wreck)

NOMO

• New Tones (Ubiquity)

NRBQ

• Scraps (Rounder)
• Dummy (Edisun)

NY Oil

• Concert: 30 January 2007: Pyramid Club — New York, NY

Na Leo Pilimehana

• Hawaiian Memories (NLP Music)

Naam Brigade

• Early in the Game (ArtistDirect/BMG)

Nachtmystium

• Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1 (Century Media)

Nada Surf

• The Proximity Effect (Mardev)
• The Weight Is a Gift (Barsuk)
• Lucky (Barsuk)
• 20 Questions: Nada Surf

The Nadas

• Transceiver (Authentic)

Nadja

• Touched (Alien8)
• Guilted By the Sun (Elevation)

Marissa Nadler

• Songs III: Bird on the Water (Kemado/Peacefrog)

Leona Naess

• I Tried to Rock You But You Only Roll (MCA)
• Leona Naess (Geffen)
• Comatised (MCA)

Nagisa Ni Te

• Dream Sounds (Jagjaguwar)

Yael Naim & David Donatien

• Yael Naim & David Donatien (Tot ou Tard/Atlantic)

Sacha Nairobi

• News: Pretty and tough, singer Sacha Nairobi is up for any gig

Motohiro Nakashima

• And I Went to Sleep (Lo Recordings)

Naked

• Let's Get Naked...and Start a Revolution (Megamania)

Naked Eyes

• Fumbling with the Covers (Oglio)

Naked Music NYC

• Reconstructed Soul (Om/Naked Music)

Namelessnumberheadman

• Wires Reply (Scatterplot Sounds/St. Ives)
• Feature: The Best Indie-Pop of 2007

Nanang Tatang

• Muki (Tiger Style)

Nanook of the North

• The Täby Tapes (Parasol/Hidden Agenda)

The Naomi Star

• The Naomi Star (Pleiades)

Napalm Death

• The Code Is Red... Long Live the Code (Century Media)

Nappy Roots

• Wooden Leather (Atlantic)

Andy Narell

• Tatoom (Heads Up)

The Narrator

• Such Triumph (Flameshovel)
• All That to the Wall (Flameshovel)

Nas

• Hip Hop Is Dead (Def Jam)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  In a fall where many stumbled and even Jay-Z slipped up, Nas is back with a record for history.

   
• Feature: Hip Hop Is Dead: Art, Culture, & Tradition
• Column: The NAACP’s Mock Burial of Its Relevance
• Street's Disciple (Sony Urban/Columbia)
• God's Son (Columbia)
• Lost Tapes (Columbia/Sony)
• Stillmatic (Sony)
• Illmatic [Anniversary Edition] (Sony)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  While the critical success of Illmatic has helped Nas's career immeasurably, it has also been his greatest enemy. Subsequent albums have all been unfairly weighed against Illmatic.

   
• Nastradamus (Sony/Columbia)

Ted Nash & Odeon

• La Espada de la Noche (Palmetto)

Graham Nash

• Songs for Survivors (Artemis)

Kate Nash

• Made of Bricks (Interscope/Geffen/Polydor)

Leigh Nash

• Leigh Nash Remix Project (Nettwerk)

Nashville Pussy

• High as Hell (TVT)
• Say Something Nasty (Artemis)

Nassau

• Machines to Paradise (Outside Music)

Nina Nastasia

• On Leaving (Fat Cat)
• Run to Ruin (Touch & Go)
• Dogs (Touch and Go)

Nina Nastasia & Jim White

• You Follow Me (FatCat)

Nanette Natal

• Column: A Critic's Grab-Bag

Natalie

• Everything New (Universal/Republic)

Nathan

• Key Principles (Nettwerk)

Nathan Lawr and the Minotaurs

• A Sea of Tiny Lights (Minotaur Music)

Matt Nathanson

• Beneath These Fireworks (Universal)
• Some Mad Hope (Vanguard)

The National

• Concert: 29 May 2007: Bowery Ballroom — New York, NY

National Eye

• Roomful of Lions (Park the Van)
• The Meter Glows (Feel)

The National Gallery

• Performing Musical Interpretations of the Paintings of Paul Klee (Fallout)

The National Lights

• The Dead Will Walk, Dear (BloodShake)

The National Rifle

• The National Rifle: Wage Life

National Skyline

• National Skyline (Hidden Agenda)
• Exit Now (File 13)
• This = Everything (File 13)

The National Trust

• Dekkagar (Thrill Jockey)

The National

• Alligator (Beggars Banquet)
• Alligator (Beggars Banquet)
• Feature: Grand National: An Interview with the National
• Boxer (Beggars Banquet)

  Featured Article

  

  Brooklyn's band of brothers spins dark, sardonic songs about love and life, adorned with orchestral flourishes and aching with romantic desperation... an early bid for album of the year.

   
• News: Band is building a buzz with one of the best albums of the year
• A Skin, A Night & The Virginia EP (Beggars Banquet)
• Concert: 23 January 2007: City Recital Hall Angel Place — Sydney, Australia

Natural Calamity

• Peach Head (Nickelbag)

The Natural History

• Beat Beat Heartbeat (StarTime International)

Diana Navarro

• News: Diana Navarro takes on traditional Flamenco style

Kiko Navarro

• Perceptions of Pacha (Swank/Pacha)

Nawal

• Aman (Nawal)
• Feature: Kids Don't Go and Buy Anything Out of This Section: World Music 2007

Jacqui Naylor

• Smashed for the Holidays (Ruby Star Records)

The Naysayer

• Heaven, Hell or Houston (Carrot Top)

Nazz

• Nazz Nazz (Rhino)

Me'shell Ndegeocello

• The Spirit Music Jamia: Dance of the Infidels (Shanachie)

Meshell Ndegeocello

• The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams (Emarcy)

  Featured Article

  

  The iconoclastic bassist/singer/songwriter returns with her most complete, accessible and daring recording in a decade.

   

Ne-Yo

• In My Own Words (Def Jam)
• Feature: Best R&B of 2006
• Because of You (Island Def Jam)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  R&B singer/songwriter comes close to perfection while defining the antithesis of a sophomore slump.

   
• News: Ne-Yo discovers the price of fame

Necrophagist

• Epitaph (Relapse)

Nedelle

• From the Lion's Mouth (Kill Rock Stars)
• The Locksmith Cometh (Tangram 7s)

Nedelle and Thom

• Summerland (Kill Rock Stars)

Need New Body

• Where's Black Ben? (5RC)
• UFO (File 13)

The Need

• The Need Is Dead (Chainsaw)

Negativland

• No Business (Seeland)

Neighborly

• Grass Is Greener (Sun Sea Sky Productions)

Casey Neill

• Brooklyn Bridge (In Music We Trust)

Neimo

• Neimo (Shangri-La)

The Nein

• Luxury (Sonic Unyon)
• Wrath of Circuits (Sonic Unyon)
• The Nein (Sonic Unyon)

Nekromantix

• Return of the Loving Dead (Hellcat)

Nelly

• Nellyville (Universal)
• Sweatsuit (Universal)

Beaver Nelson

• Little Brother (Louisiana Red Hot)
• Undisturbed (Black Dog)

Bobbie Lee Nelson

• News: Willie Nelson's older sister steps out of his long shadow

Oliver Nelson

• Screamin' the Blues (Prestige)

Rick Nelson

• The Best of Rick Nelson (20th Century Masters: the Millennium Collection) (20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection)
• Various Artists: Easy to be Free

Ricky Nelson

• Greatest Love Songs (Capitol)

Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Ray Price

• Last of the Breed Volume 1 (Lost Highway/Mercury)

Willie Nelson

• You Don't Know Me: Songs of Cindy Walker (Lost Highway)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Willie sings from the Great American (Country and Western) Songbook.

   
• Songbird (Lost Highway)
• Willie Nelson and Friends: Live and Kickin' (Lost Highway)
• Teatro (Island)
• Rainbow Connection (Island)
• Me and the Drummer (Luck)
• The Great Divide (Lost Highway)
• The Troublemaker (Columbia)
• Countryman (Lost Highway)
• The Essential Willie Nelson (Legacy)
• Songs (Lost Highway/Hip-O/UTV)
• Moment of Forever (Lost Highway)
• One Hell of a Ride (Sony)
• Stardust (Legacy Edition)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  In celebration of its 30th anniversary, Willie Nelson’s classic 1978 interpretation of the Great American Songbook receives a double-disc makeover.

   

Neon Blonde

• Chandeliers in the Savannah (Dim Mak)

Neon Neon

• Stainless Style (Lex)

  Featured Article

  

  Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys and hip-hop beatman Boom Bip get elbow-deep in '80s synth-pop with a concept album about John DeLorean.

   

Neon Thrills

• Sweet Cactus (Bad Beat)

Neotropic

• Prestatyn (Net31)
• White Rabbits (Mush)
• La Prochaine Fois (N Tone)

The Neptunes

• Clones (Arista)

Nerf Herder

• IV (Oglio)

The Nervous Exits

• Get Out (Super Secret)

Silje Nes

• Ames Room (FatCat)

Ann Nesby

• This Is Love (Shanachie)

Nethers

• In Fields We Will Lie (Box Theory Records)

Neu!

• Neu! 2 (Astralwerks)

Neurosis

• The Eye of Every Storm (Relapse)
• Given to the Rising (Neurot)
• Feature: The Best Metal Albums of 2007

Nevada Bachelors

• Hello Jupiter (PopLlama)

Neve

• Neve (Portrait/Sony)

The Never

• Antarctica: A Storybook Record (Trekky)

Neverending White Lights

• Act II: the blood and the life eternal (Maple Music)

Nevermore

• This Godless Endeavor (Century Media)

The Neville Brothers

• Valence Street (Columbia)

Aaron Neville

• Nature Boy: the Standards Album (Verve)

The New Amsterdams

• Never You Mind (Heroes & Villains/Vagrant)
• Worse for the Wear (Vagrant)

New Atlantic

• The Streets, the Sounds, and the Love (Eyeball)

New Bloods

• The Secret Life (Kill Rock Stars)

New Bomb Turks

• Nightmare Scenario (Epitaph)

New Buffalo

• The Last Beautiful Day (Arts & Crafts)
• New Buffalo EP (Arts & Crafts)

The New Constitution

• On 4 (Audello)

New Duncan Imperials

• In-A-Gadda-Da-Vegas (Pravda)

New Edition

• One Love (Bad Boy)

New Found Glory

• New Found Glory (Drive-Thru/MCA)
• Sticks and Stones (MCA/Drive-Thru)

New London Fire

• I Sing the Body Holographic (Eyeball)

The New Loud

• Me (Secrets) You (I Heard You Wanna Fight Me)

New Model Army

• Great Expectations: the Singles Collection (Superfecta Recordings)

New Monsoon + End of Time Observatory

• Concert: 9 February 2008: The Fillmore — San Francisco, CA

The New Normal

• The Sprightly Sounds of the New Normal (Mallard Pointe)

New Order

• Get Ready (Reprise)
• Live in Glasgow [DVD] (Rhino/Warner)

The New Pornographers

• Concert: 27 September 2007: The Boulder Theater — Boulder, CO
• News: New Pornographers cast themselves as challengers, not champions

The New Pornographers

• Twin Cinema (Matador)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Highly anticipated third full-length from Vancouver collective offers up another round of smart, audaciously engaging pop.

   
• Mass Romantic (Mint)
• Electric Version (Matador)
• Challengers (Matador)
• Challengers (Matador)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Roger Holland thinks Challengers is what the New Pornographers always wanted to sound like and that it just took them four albums to get there.

   

New Radiant Storm King

• The Steady Hand (Darla)

The New Rags

• Take Jennie to Brooklyn (Silent Stereo)

New Riders of the Purple Sage

• New Riders of the Purple Sage (Columbia/Legacy)

New Salem Witch Hunters

• New Salem Witch Hunters (Get Hip)

New Sense

• Flowers Before Hours (Brilliante)

New Sweet Breath

• Acceleration & Distortion (Mag Wheel)

New Town Animals

• Is Your Radio Active? (Mint)

The New Transit Direction

• Wonderful Defense Mechanisms (Some)

New Wet Kojak

• Do Things (Beggars Banquet)
• This Is the Glamorous (Beggars Banquet)

New Year's Day

• New Year's Day (TVT)

The New Year

• The End Is Near (Touch and Go)
• Newness Ends (Touch & Go)

New Years Day

• My Dear (TVT)

New York City Smoke

• Musique Noir (Electric Howieland Recordings)

New York Dolls

• One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This (Roadrunner)
• Live at the Fillmore East (Sony BMG)

The New York Dolls

• I'm a Human Being / Red Patent Leather / Seven Day Weekend (Trojan)

New York Voices

• A Day Like This (MCG Jazz)

The New Yorker

• The New Yorker (self-released)

New Young Pony Club

• New Young Pony Club (Modular)
• Fantastic Playroom (Modular)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  There can be little doubt that this is the most impressive and assured debut record to come down the pike in many a year.

   
• Feature: The Best Albums of 2007
• Feature: The Best Electronica of 2007

The New

• Here Comes Everybody (Poptones)

Carrie Newcomer

• Regulars and Refugees (Philo/Rounder)
• Betty's Diner: the Best of Carrie Newcomer (Philo)

A.C. Newman

• The Slow Wonder (Matador)

Harris Newman

• Accidents with Nature and Each Other (Strange Attractors)

Mark Newman

• Must Be a Pony (Danai Music, LLC)

Randy Newman

• Feature: MacGuffin Pop

Joanna Newsom

• Feature: Best Singer/Songwriter Albums of 2006
• Ys (Drag City)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  And we all fall down slack-jawed to marvel at Joanna Newsom.

   

Joanna Newsom

• Concert: 13 November 2006: Webster Hall — New York, NY

Newton Faulkner

• Hand Built By Robots (Sony/RCA)

Next

• Welcome II Nextasy (Arista)

Scout Niblett

• Kidnapped By Neptune (Too Pure/Beggars)

Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh

• Daybreak: Fainne An Lae (Compass Records)

The Nice Boys

• The Nice Boys (Birdman)
• Feature: Such Nice Boys: An Interview With Terry Six

Jeb Loy Nichols

• Easy Now (Rykodisc)

Joe Nichols

• Feature: The Best Country Music of 2007

Jon Nicholson

• A Lil Sump'm Sump'm (Warner Bros.)

Shane Nicholson

• Faith & Science (Virt)

Nickel Creek

• Reasons Why: The Very Best (Sugar Hill)
• This Side (Sugar Hill)
• Why Should the Fire Die? (Sugar Hill)
• Nickel Creek (Sugar Hill)
• Concert: 18 August 2007: Mann Center for Performing Arts — Philadelphia, PA

Stevie Nicks

• Trouble in Shangri-La (Reprise)
• Feature: Stevie Nicks: Dreams Unwound

Nicolay

• Here (BBE Records)

Nicolay & Kay

• Time:Line (Nicolay Music)

Steve Nieve

• News: Costello keyboardist Nieve finds his own voice

Night Marchers

• See You in Magic (Swami/Vagrant)

Night Ranger

• The Best of Night Ranger (MCA)

Robert Nighthawk

• Live on Maxwell Street 1964 (Deluxe Edition) (Deluxe Edition)

Nightingales

• Concert: 9 March 2007: The Abbey Lounge — Somerville, MA

The Nightingales

• What's Not to Love? (Caroline True)

Nightmares on Wax

• In a Space Outta Sound (Warp)
• Mind Elevation (Warp)

Nights Like These

• The Faithless (Victory)
• Sunlight at Secondhand (Victory)

Nightwish

• Once (Roadrunner)
• Dark Passion Play (Roadrunner/Nuclear Blast/Spinefarm)
• Feature: Taking Their Passion Play to the Road: An Interview with Nightwish

Nik Bärtsch's Ronin

• Holon (ECM)

Nikki and the Corvettes

• Nikki and the Corvettes (Bomp!)

Nile

• Annihilation of the Wicked (Relapse)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  The American death metal masters return with what could be their best album to date.

   

Willie Nile

• Streets of New York (00:02:59)

Nilsson

• Nilsson: Son of Schmilsson

Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald

• Ultimate Divas (Verve)

Nina Sky

• Nina Sky (Universal)

Nine Black Alps

• Everything Is (Interscope)
• Nine Black Alps EP (Tiny Evil)

Nine Inch Nails

• And All That Could Have Been (Nothing/Interscope)
• With Teeth (Interscope)
• Things Falling Apart (Nothing)
• The Downward Spiral [Deluxe Edition] (Nothing/Interscope)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  From destructive start to hurtful finish, The Downward Spiral remains, ten years after, a major contribution to the world of popular music.

   
• Year Zero (Interscope)
• Feature: Grappling with NIN's noise at Year Zero
• News: Nine Inch Nails scares up sales with 'Ghosts'
• Ghosts I-IV (The Null Corporation)
• The Slip (The Null Corporation)
• The Slip (The Null Corporation)

Nine Pound Hammer

• Mulebite Deluxe (Acetate)

Nineteen Forty-five

• I Saw a Bright Light (Daemon)
• Together We'll Burn Like Autumn Leaves (Daemon)

Nirvana

• With the Lights Out (Geffen)

Takeshi Nishimoto

• Monologue (Buro/Forced Exposure)

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

• Will the Circle Be Unbroken Vol. III (Capitol)

Nixon's Head

• Take It! (Groove Disques)

Mojo Nixon

• Feature: Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper, Bo-Day-Shus!!! (1987)

Niyaz

• Niyaz (Six Degrees)

No Age

• Weirdo Rippers (Fat Cat)
• Nouns (Sub Pop)

  Featured Article

  

  Never has so much kaleidoscopic noise been produced from such meagre resources: one guitar and one drum kit.

   

No Doubt

• Rock Steady (Interscope)

No Kids

• Come Into My House (Tomlab)

No Knife

• Fire in the City of Automatons (Time Bomb)

No Limit Records

• Feature: Deadly Packaging: The Cover Art of No Limit Records

No Luck Club

• Prosperity (Igloo Cartel)
• Prosperity 2.0 (Expansion Team)

No More Kings

• No More Kings (Astonish)

No Neck Blues Band Meets The Clear People with Mystery Gypped

• Live at Ken's Electric Lake (Locust)

No Use for a Name

• The Feel Good Record of the Year (Fat Wreck)

The No WTO Combo

• Live from the Battle in Seattle (Alternative Tentacles)

No Wait Wait

• About You (Chairkickers)

No-Neck Blues Band and Embryo

• Embryonnck (Staubgold)

The No-No's

• Let Your Shadow Out (Animal World)

Noahjohn

• Water Hymns (Killdeer)

Nobody

• Revisions Revisions: The Remixes 2000-2005 (Plug Research)
• And Everything Else... (Plug Research)
• Soulmates (Ubiquity)
• Western Water Music Vol. II (Ubiquity Records)

Nobody & the Mystic Chords of Memory

• Tree Colored See (Mush)

Noctorum

• Offer the Light (Heyday)

Papa Noel and Papi Oviedo

• Bana Congo (Tumi Music)

Yoko Noge

• News: Singer Yoko Noge left Japan for Chicago with nothing but her love of the blues

Jim Noir

• Tower of Love (Barsuk)
• Jim Noir (Barsuk)

Noiseshaper

• Real to Reel (Miracle Sounds)

The Noisettes

• What's the Time, Mr. Wolf? (Universal/Motown)
• Feature: One of Those Bands: An Interview With the Noisettes

Nomeansno

• All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt (AntAcidAudio)
• No One (Alternative Tentacles)

Klaus Nomi

• Za Bakdaz (Heliocentric)

Non

• Children of the Black Sun (Mute)

Non-prophets

• Hope (Lex)

Nonloc

• Between Hemispheres (Strange Attractors Audio House)

Nonpoint

• Statement (MCA)

Nord Express

• Loveland 1995-2005 (Peapod)

Siiri Nordin

• Me Too (Next Big Thing)

Norfolk & Western

• A Gilded Age (Hush)
• The Unsung Colony (Hush)
• Winter Farewell (Film Guerrera)
• Dusk in Cold Parlours (Hush)

Tujiko Noriko

• Solo (Editions Mego)

Norman Kelsey

• A Talent for Loving (Self-released)

Normanoak

• Born a Black Diamond (Secretly Canadian)

Nortec Collective

• News: Nortec Collective makes music without borders

North Mississippi Allstars

• Hill Country Revue (ATO)
• Polaris (ATO)
• Electric Blue Watermelon (ATO)
• Shake Hands with Shorty (Tone-Cool)
• News: Mississippi trio returns to its blues-rock roots

The North Sea

• Exquisite Idols (Type)

Northern Alliance

• For the Grains of Sand (45B/Fence Records)

A Northern Chorus

• Before We All Go to Pieces (Black Mountain Music)
• Spirit Flags (Sonic Unyon)
• The Millions Too Many (Sonic Unyon)

Northern Portrait

• The Fallen Aristocracy (Matinee Recordings)

Northern State

• Dying in Stereo (StarTime International)
• Can I Keep This Pen? (Ipecac)

Northernblues Gospel All Stars

• Saved! (NorthernBlues Music)

Norton

• Kersche (self-released)

Anders Norudde

• Himself (Northside)

Odd Nosdam

• Pretty Swell Explode (Anticon)

Nostalgia 77

• The Garden (Ubiquity/Tru Thoughts)
• Everything Under the Sun (Ubiquity)

The Nostalgia 77 Octet

• Weapons of Jazz Destruction (Tru Thoughts)

Not Breathing

• The Black Old Pueblo (Sublight)

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto

• insen (Asphodel)

The Notorious B.I.G.

• Duets: the Final Chapter (Bad Boy)

The Notwist

• The Notwist / Nook (Community/Bubblecore)
• 12 (Community/Big Store Music)
• Different Cars and Trains (Domino)
• 12 / Shrink (Community)
• Neon Golden (Domino)
• The Devil, You + Me (Domino)

Faris Nourallah

• Near the Sun: The Best Songs of Faris Nourallah (Green Ufos)
• King of Sweden (Baryon)

Salim Nourallah

• Beautiful Noise (Western Vinyl)
• Polaroid (Western Vinyl)
• Snowing in My Heart (Tapete)

Nouvelle Vague

• Bande a Part (Luaka Bop)

Novillero

• Aim Right for the Holes in Their Lives (Mint)

Now It's Overhead

• Dark Light Daybreak (Saddle Creek)
• Now It's Overhead (Saddle Creek)

Ted Nugent

• Full Bluntal Nugity (Spitfire)

KK Null

• Fertile (Touch)

Num9

• The Glow-Worm's Resistance (Acuarela)

Gary Numan

• Pure (Spitfire)
• Live in London (Eagle)

The Number Twelve Looks Like You

• Mongrel (Eyeball)

Nurse & Soldier

• Marginalia (Jagjaguwar)

Nurse with Wound

• Rock 'N Roll Station (Beta-lactam Ring Records)

Nuspirit Helsinki

• NuSpirit Helsinki (Guidance)

Paolo Nutini

• Live Sessions (Atlantic)

Sally Nyolo and the Original Bands of Yaoundé

• Studio Cameroon (Riverboat)

Laura Nyro

• Eli and the Thirteenth ConfessionGonna Take a MiracleNew York Tendaberry (Columbia/Legacy)
• Live: the Loom's Desire (Rounder)