The Year In Music

April, 2003

Your backstage pass to a mixed-up musical yearPop Music took on a new sincerity in 2002. Just when it seemed like the tyranny of boy bands, bubblegum teen queens and Scowls-R-Us rap-rockers would never end, something more authentic started to simmer on the charts.A new crop of young, scruffy bands--Strokes, white stripes, hives and vines, linked so often in the media they started to sound like a four-headed beast--made old-fashioned, guitar-drums-and-no-DJ rock feel new again. Meanwhile, some tr...

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