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AllMusic Staff Pick: Mos Def Black on Both Sides Black on Both Sides is a tour de force by an artist out to prove he can do it all. Its ambition and execution rank it as one of the best albums of...

AllMusic Staff Pick: Miranda Lambert Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Taking her cue from the vengeful spurned woman of "Kerosene," her hit debut single, Lambert has built her second album around a tough-chick...

AllMusic Staff Pick: Suicide Suicide Over the course of seven songs, Martin Rev's dense, unnerving electronics -- including a menacing synth bass, a drum machine that sounds like an idling motorcycle,...

AllMusic Staff Pick: Tom Waits The Heart of Saturday Night If Closing Time, Waits' debut album, consisted of love songs set in a late-night world of bars and neon signs, its follow-up, released 50...

AllMusic Staff Pick: The Tragically Hip Fully Completely Fully Completely is where Kingston, Ontario's Tragically Hip finally come to the apex of their talent. Lead singer Gord Downie sounds crisp and...

AllMusic Staff Pick: Ozark Mountain Daredevils It'll Shine When It Shines Following the success of their self-titled debut, the Ozark Mountain Daredevils' sophomore release, It'll Shine When It...

AllMusic Staff Pick: Mr. Oizo Analog Worms Attack Analog Worms Attack, released 25 years ago today, is an inventive album that somehow marries the experimental side of techno (Cristian Vogel, Laurent...

AllMusic Staff Pick: Handsome Boy Modeling School So...How's Your Girl? This album, released 25 years ago today, ends up as a showcase for their eclecticism, tailoring productions to their...

AllMusic Staff Pick: The Refreshments The Bottle & Fresh Horses For their second album, the Refreshments moved away from the half-serious alt-rock that made their debut effort a minor hit. With the...

AllMusic Staff Pick: Ray Charles The Genius of Ray Charles Some players from Ray Charles' big band are joined by many ringers from the Count Basie and Duke Ellington bands for the first half of this...

AllMusic Staff Pick: Paul Desmond From the Hot Afternoon Paul Desmond's first genuine all-Brazilian album under the Creed Taylor signature was a beauty, a collection of songs by the then-moderately...

AllMusic Staff Pick: James Iha Let It Come Down During lulls on the lengthy Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness tour and before the Smashing Pumpkins returned to the studio to record Adore, James...