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Our picks for the Best Reissues and Collections of 2002: bonuses] 1) Best of 1990-2000 & B Sides by U2 2) The Velvet Underground & Nico, remastered by Velvet Underground 3) Elvis 30 #1 Hits by Elvis Presley 4) Nirvana by Nirvana 5) Forty Licks by The Rolling Stones 20 …

Our picks for Rock Album of 2002: 1) Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco 2) Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age 3) When I Was Cruel by Elvis Costello 4) The Rising by Bruce Springsteen 5) White Blood Cells by the White Stripes

Our picks for Songwriter of 2002: 1) Jeff Tweedy 2) Elvis Costello 3) Eminem 4) Beck Norah Jones

Our picks for song of 2002: 1) “Into the Fire” by Bruce Springsteen 2) “Work It” by Missy Elliott 3) “Hot in Herre” by Nelly 4) “PDA” by Interpol 5) “45” by Elvis Costello “Hate to Say I Told You So” by The Hives “Fell in Love With a Girl” …

Just in time to laugh at the Grammys, The Critiquees (“Cri-teek-ees”), the Blogcritics.org music awards for 2002 are here! Results are based upon a poll of our critics and readers. If you want to stock up on the best of 2002, you could do worse than snapping these babies up …

A couple of days ago we mentioned the blockbuster hippie-fest Bonnaroo Music Festival coming to Tennessee this June – there’s another camp and jam extravaganza featuring some of the same artists coming to West Virginia in May: Thursday, May 15 to Sunday, May 18, 2003 7th Annual ALL GOOD MUSIC …

Ah gee, another New Order “Best-Of” collection. What is this now – their third or fourth? I’m gonna be upfront about this: any New Order disc purporting to be the creme de la creme that does not include “Temptation” (the “Oh, you’ve got green eyes/Oh, you’ve got blue eyes” song) …

Check out the serious reefer-sucking lineup for the 2003 Bonnaroo Music Festival June 13-15: three days of camping and jam band-big groove-acoustic roots-world beat-bluesy love everybody vibe headed up by the newly rechristened “The Dead.” 2003 Bonnaroo Confirmed Artists: The Dead Widespread Panic James Brown The Allman Brothers Band Ben …

We mentioned back in January that Sarah Lewis, singer/songwriter of Jag Star, Knoxville’s spirited modern pop-rock band, won the national USA Songwriting Competiton. As a result of that triumph, the band has been selected to entertain American forces in the “‘Stans”: Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and Qatar. They leave Monday …

Fans of the spare, arid beauty of the desert Southwest will find the new Friends of Dean Martinez 2-CD set On the Shore the perfect soundtrack to their lives. The Friends were formed in 1994 as an instrumental side project by members of Giant Sand, but the glory of their …