Subject: Brill Building

• Rap Gets Puffy

  Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs fathers a return to hip-hop pop.

  October 2, 1997

• Top 10 Reissues of 2008

  Over the next couple of weeks, Backbeat will feature some Top Ten lists from around the Village Voice Media chain. Click here for previous year-in-review coverage from Backbeat and VVM. It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scenes From an Itali

  December 23, 2008

• After Further Review

  Putting the season's major releases to the test.

  December 18, 1997

• Paranoid Park

  Gus Van Sant returns to disaffected youth and shoestring budgets in Paranoid Park.

  March 20, 2008

• More Songs of the Century

  Part two of a pre-millennial trek through a hundred years of pop music.

  July 8, 1999

• The Mellowing of Mr. C

  Elvis Costello isn't angry anymore.

  May 27, 1999

• Lord Knows

  Mary Lou Lord is smarter than the average busker.

  April 2, 1998

• Muscle Bound

  July 3, 1997

• The Prize Patrol

  The biggest musical winners from 1996.

  December 26, 1996