Features
Friday, December 24 2010
The 60 Best Songs of 2010
Sixty slices of musical greatness highlighted by one of the most delightful expletive-ridden hits in pop music history.
Reviews
Wednesday, August 31 2011
Kanrocksas Music Fest: 5-6 August 2011 - Kansas City, KS
Kanrocksas, while no Lollapalooza, was a fine, inaugural music festival with great potential.
Wednesday, June 15 2011
Bad Meets Evil: Hell: The Sequel
Maybe it's 15 years too late, but Eminem and Royce's resurrection of Bad Meets Evil is mostly a gift hip-hop fans ought to flock to.
Tuesday, June 22 2010
Eminem: Recovery
Eminem finds his fire and his flow again on Recovery, nearly reinventing himself in the process.
Tuesday, May 19 2009
Eminem: Relapse
Some people grow up, and others just get older. Em may be closing in on 40, but his rhymes are more immature than ever. It's getting sad -- Flava Flav sad.
Tuesday, January 2 2007
Eminem: Eminem Presents the Re-Up
The Re-Up is a mix of vintage Eminem production and lyric spitting combined with his only real weakness: the tendency to regress and play down to his crew of less talented jokesters.
Blogs
Monday, February 28 2011
Why Did Eminem Become a Corporate Whore, More?
Did Eminem become more personal by hawking products for two more major corporations? In my view, he probably emasculated his best song (“Lose Yourself”), in…
Wednesday, May 19 2010
Eminem and Jay-Z Ready to Rock Yankee Stadium, Comerica Park
When Jay-Z and Eminem announced last week on ESPN that they'll be doing a double concert at Yankee Stadium and Comerica Park this fall, I…
Wednesday, May 5 2010
Eminem - "Not Afraid" (stream)
In 2009, Eminem -- a poor, scrawny, trailer dwelling kid from the outskirts of Detroit with a liquid flow and acute sense of humor --…
Monday, September 14 2009
Verse-Chorus-Verse: Eminem - "White America"
Pop Heroism, One Song at a Time
Tuesday, May 19 2009
I Guess White Boys Feel It More: On Music Biopics
The way that the films Notorious, 8 Mile, Walk The Line, and Ray lead up to scenes of performances shows the remarkable and subtle endurance of troubling racial stereotypes and ideals.
News
Sunday, February 13 2011
Grammy's boy: a nice recovery for Eminem
Eminem has built his career around the idea that he has two sides — the sly, potty-mouthed battler Slim Shady and the more serious, more…
Monday, February 7 2011
Is Eminem finally safe enough to grab biggest Grammy prize?
CHICAGO — Remember the days when Eminem was considered an outlaw? Remember when a foul-mouthed, equal-opportunity offender sold gazillions of records while the industry that…
