The year 1999 was one of the most lucrative years for pop music, and the turn of the millennium brought with it a whole new trajectory for countless genres. Since so much great chart-topping music ...

“I am not there to be their Patti Smith. That is Polly Harvey’s job,” Hole leader Courtney Love told SPIN in 1998. “I’m going to make music for the people.” The band’s third album, Celebrity Skin, ...

On the song that established “country rap” as a pop-viable signifier with baggage, Robert Ritchie concocted a gun-slinging alcoholic pimp character “straight out the trailer” who hates sheriffs, ...