All Stories

Everything we've published, newest first.

An Under Rug Swept CD tilted open beside its sleeve, Alanis Morissette’s flame-haired red-and-blue portrait doubled on disc and cover, on a paint-smeared tabletop

Queen of Pain revisited

Alanis Morissette is light years past the grrls she gets lumped with, but ‘Under Rug Swept’ leaves her where we found her, and overdue a reinvention.

By Igan D'Bayan · June 2, 2002
Road-worn black Fender Precision Bass with a tortoiseshell pickguard on a stand, beside a bass amp topped with a Wi-Fi router, neon-green cables plugged into both

Bass(ic) instinct and the Internet

Before tab sites, you learned Jaco by ear off a worn-out tape. An ode to the low end, written at the dawn of Internet music culture.

By Igan D'Bayan · June 8, 2001