In a memorable year for film, there were recommendations of blockbusters, tender dramas and coming-of-age-tales. But one title stood out from the rest.
Category: Nineteen Hundred Nineties
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10 Unforgettable Songs From 1999 Movies
Listen to tracks by the Chicks, Aimee Mann, Blink-182 and more linked to moments in a monumentally interesting — and busy — year of cinema.
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Revisiting the Women Who Defined Lilith Fair’s Sound
Hear songs by Sarah McLachlan, Tracy Chapman, Meredith Brooks and more.
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My First Cigarette Was My Last
Thoughts on the coolest boy in Ontario.
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‘The Connector,’ a Show That Asks: Should News Feel True or Be True?
A new musical from Jason Robert Brown, Daisy Prince and Jonathan Marc Sherman explores the diverging trajectories of two young writers in the late 1990s.
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Aaron Rose’s Drunken, Youthful Poems From the ’90s
The artist and former gallerist Aaron Rose had the coolest indie gallery in an era of creative explosion in downtown New York. A new book (of old work) captures that long-lost moment.
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Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Ghost Influencer
Almost 25 years after her tragic death, the lithe blonde is the muse of the season.
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Sean Combs Doesn’t Need to Ask Anyone for Anything
The music mogul, 53, has a new album, a new (psychedelics-fueled) self-image and a fresh sense of purpose.
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Folk Implosion Returns With ‘Music for Kids’
Lou Barlow and John Davis made tracks for the 1995 cultural flashpoint. They split after a 1999 LP, but reunited during the pandemic, and made plans to release more songs.
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Queer History Was Made in ’90s Clubs. These Fliers Captured It.
“Getting In,” a new book from David Kennerley, collects the edgy advertisements for parties at clubs like the Palladium and records a culture forged from defiance.
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A Crash Course in the Elephant 6 Recording Co.
A new documentary explores the lo-fi psychedelic music made by bands including Apples in Stereo, the Olivia Tremor Control and Neutral Milk Hotel.
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Magoo, Rapper and Former Timbaland Collaborator, Dies at 50
Melvin Barcliff, who rapped under the name Magoo, was a teenager in Virginia when he joined a hip-hop scene that still influences music today.