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Friday, January 21 2011

N.E.R.D. -  Best of N.E.R.D.

A "Best of" album only featuring songs from the band's first two albums? Yep, it's a former record label attempting to cash in; stay far away from this.


Friday, December 4 2009

Britney Spears: The Singles Collection

"'Sharing the same heart'? That's like some... Britney Spears sh*t, man!" -- Jay (Romany Malco) The 40 Year Old Virgin.


Tuesday, November 24 2009

Shakira: She Wolf

When it works, She Wolf is a sexy modern-day disco stunner. When it doesn't, it's pretty embarrassing for everyone involved.


Thursday, March 20 2008

Kelis: The Hits

With four crazed, wildly different albums of spaced-out R&B-pop, Kelis proves hard to define and even harder to write off as "just that 'Milkshake' girl."


Friday, December 21 2007

The Best Albums of 2007

From tech house to Radiohead and Americana to indie and everything in between, PopMatters picks the best 60 albums of 2007.


Tuesday, December 11 2007

The Best Hip-Hop of 2007

From Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five to a dope album named Desire, hip-hop showed growth in 2007.


Friday, November 9 2007

Jay-Z: American Gangster

American Gangster may never be seen as Jay-Z's defining moment, but it marks his comeback far more effectively than Kingdom Come ever even tried to.


Monday, December 4 2006

Snoop Dogg: Tha Blue Carpet Treatment

Snoop Dogg invites a bunch of friends to the studio, records a small army of songs, accomplishes not much of anything.


Wednesday, September 24 2003

The Neptunes: Clones


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