Let’s Go Crazy: Celebrating 25 Years of Purple Rain

By PopMatters Staff

Some 25 years after it was released, PopMatters proudly celebrates Purple Rain in its entirety, looking at the album and film from every angle. [5 June 2009]

More Candy 4 Us: Prince Is Back with 3 Albums

By Quentin B. Huff

Never one to do things the easy way, Prince delivers a concept album, a collection of dance tracks, and a protégée. [9 April 2009]

The Critical Untimeliness of Ultimate Prince

By Dante A. Ciampaglia

A look at the Ultimate Prince that almost never was, the two Prince fans caught up in this final Warner Bros. project, and the prince of the SuperBowl XLI halftime show who may, ultimately, save the record. [2 February 2007]

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]

The Purple Experience: Your PopMatters Primer on Prince’s Pop Life

By Quentin B. Huff

So many Prince albums, but where do you start? Here's a funky little list designed to aid your quest. [5 February 2007]

(more Busted Headphones)

Prince: Planet Earth

By Quentin B. Huff

Looking at the world through purple-colored glasses, opinions about music, especially Prince's, are all over the map. [27 July 2007]

Prince: Prince and the N.P.G.: Diamonds and Pearls [DVD]

By Kelley Schei

Prince's pansexual, pan racial, and Dionysian vision remains genuinely inspired, and inspiring, to this day. [12 December 2006]

Prince: 3121

By Scott Hreha

Many of the classic elements of a Prince record are here, but it also feels considerably safer -- like a poorly concealed attempt to recapture past glories at the expense of his wilder creative muse. [30 March 2006]

Prince

By David Powell

Prince: Musicology

By Zeth Lundy

While Musicology isn’t a brilliant brushstroke or a complete return to his past, it is without a doubt the best record Prince has made in a long time, a release that provides plenty to be excited about while he continues to find his way back to pop bliss.

Prince, The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale

By Mark Zeltner

Prince: Dirty Mind

By Charlotte Robinson

While Prince has made several groundbreaking albums, 1980’s Dirty Mind, which was only a minor commercial success, still provides the most satisfying listen.

Mixed Media: Prince - “Crimson and Clover” (video)

Sound Affects: Old Skewl B.S. aka Morality Police Bite

Artists continually suffer for refusing to bow to the morality police. Yet, like this Kentuckian, we are all Unbridled Spirits, refusing to conceit to itty bitty morality pity. It’s a shame that one has to chant louder, write faster, read quicker, exercise harder, know more and listen with more compassion, isn’t it? Naw, that’s just old skewl. [1 April 2009]