Northern State, 'Can I Keep This Pen?' (Ipecac)

Post-major label, New York rap gals sing for their supper.

By immediately bragging about their superlative mic skills and overall fly-ness on this third album, the ladies of Northern State prepare us for a hip-hop record similar to their first: goofy, Beastie Boys-style bravado with an erudite twist.

Jill Cunniff, 'City Beach' (The Militia Group)

Breezy, low-key tunes from former Beastie confrere.

On her languid solo debut, Jill Cunniff suggests we "start the century again at a slower pace." The former Luscious Jackson frontwoman is obviously nostalgic for a time -- the mid-'90s, to be exact -- when it was somehow possible for a shambling all-girl funk band from New York to have a gold record.

Spray Anything

The most talented creators of American graffiti paint the town
The most talented creators of American graffiti paint the town red (and other colors) in Autograf

 

Forever Young: Alexis Bledel

Confronting teen immortality in Tuck Everlasting, Gilmore Girl Alexis Bledel plays a role she knows all too well
Confronting teen immortality in Tuck Everlasting, Gilmore Girl Alexis Bledel plays a role she knows all too well

Northern State Start the Party

Northern State
Dying in Stereo
(Startime)

Northern State
Dying in Stereo
(Startime)

Pills, Thrills, and Bellyaches

She bitches, she broods, she has her roommate committed, but Michelle Williams is still the sanest person in Prozac Nation
She bitches, she broods, she has her roommate committed, but Michelle Williams is still the sanest person in Prozac Nation
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