| | The Year in Music - Our critics list the best music of 2003. By Sasha Frere-Jones, Keith Harris, and Rob Sheffield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | The saddest album art of the year is the CD insert for the new Kelis record, where the onetime avatar of R and B quirk is stripped down to a lame sash and PhotoShopped to look like an alien goddess from a Frank Frazetta painting. |
 | | Before we say what kind of year this was, let's differentiate between the year in music and the year in corporations making money from music. |
 | | We still haven't dealt with the three strongest genres of the year: hip-hop, dancehall, and microhouse, or addressed the trouncing Timbaland gave the Neptunes this year. |
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