Amy • Breaking down the prettyboy rapper

Jessica • With a collection that spans the full length of her rich career in hand, everyone has a chance to brag about their Tori IQ.

Michelle • For a rocking good time, put “Smoking Banana Peels” on repeat and scream along at the top of your lungs.

Amy • Turn back the clock to 1989

Courtney • FNL was amazing and emotionally tuned-in, but the first season music was so horribly off the mark that I found it distracting.

Liz Belsky • Here’s a look at eight pop stars who bear a striking resemblance to their “Deep House Dish” prototypes.

Amanda • Songs From Instant Star should have made Alexz Johnson a star.

Amanda • Indigo Girls. Live from Berkeley, Ca. Sometimes it’s about the music.

Jessica • Get the dirt on your new favorite band.

Melynee • But can Robbie Williams make it in America?

Amanda • Mandy Moore gives good Coverage.

Brad • Half-naked teenage girls can’t be wrong about Justin and Christina.

Amanda • This will hurt me more than Sarah McLachlan.

P. E. Nelson • Bubba Sparxxx works hip-hop/bluegrass/country fusion.

Amanda • “Not everything is supposed to come true,” says the chorus. And that, right there, is why even adults are watching these so-called teen shows on The N.

Danielle • Nelly Furtado’s latest, Loose, is a formulaic ticket to a house on the hills.

P. E. Nelson • 70s R&B, 80s electro-pop, reggae rock anthems and power ballads.

Amy • Let the sexual growth begin

P. E. Nelson • Kish Kash is a Basement Jaxx smoothie.

Danielle • Sassy songstress Esthero tears it up with man’s best friend at The Independent in San Francisco.

Amy • The most striking thing about Lowery’s lyrics is the beauty in the melancholy.

Shana • Think of Daniel Bedingfield as a control group.

Melynee • At least one item of spandex clothing is also helpful. Semi-skanky boy with gold trophy-chain grinding you from behind is optional.

Amanda • M!ssundaztood is less annoying to listen to than it is to type.

Alex • Why aren’t you listening to this?

Amanda • I heart Toad the Wet Sprocket. When you’re young and depressed, and writing the lyrics to The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven” over and over again in your diary, there’s nothing better than more sad music full of longing.

Jessica • Then I heard it, although I was unable to believe my ears, my pulse began to race, my heart skipping so many beats I began to shake…yes!

Brad • Let me say right off the bat and for the record that The Go! Team live is just as high-energy, fun and off the wall as their album Thunder, Lightning, Strike.

Listening to Beck sing about the tears he’s crying, the lies he’s living, and the loss he’s feeling on “Guess I’m Doing Fine” (the second song on his new album), one would doubt that he’s anywhere near fine. On his…

Courtney • Pinback, The Futureheads and more overlooked gems of 2004