Best Albums of 2006

By PopMatters Staff

At long last, the annual rite of passage, the "best of" list... Here's PopMatters picks for the best 60 records of 2006. Stay tuned tomorrow for the best re-issues, as well as ongoing genre top 10s the rest of this week, culminating in the year's best musical events on Friday. [23 December 2006]

Best R&B of 2006

By Mike Joseph

Mike Joseph's picks for the year's best in R&B include manly soul men, retro futurists, sex-you-up lyricists, and one funky Jehovah's Witness. [14 December 2006]

Amel Larrieux: Lovely Standards

By Steven J. Horowitz

On this cover album, Larrieux tries out her R&B chops in a jazz context. [30 May 2007]

Amel Larrieux: Morning

By Quentin B. Huff

An Ode to Amel Larrieux: on how to follow a masterpiece, why the label "Neo-Soul" must be destroyed, and how to deal in The Twilight Zone, oops, I mean "the music industry". [5 May 2006]

Amel Larrieux: Infinite Possibilities

By Colin Ross