Here's some recent articles I've been enjoying:

for starters - Ernest Hardy is one of the best writers on music I know. He pens mostly for the LA Weekly and much of the time, these days, he's writing on film but he still comes back over to the music side. In last week's LA Weekly he wrote this review of Outkast's much-talked about Speakerboxxx/The Love Below album and provides one of the few critiques I've seen of The Love Below.

If you want even more Outkast musings, check out Sasha Frere-Jones' Slate essay on the group and their album.

Back to the LA Weekly for a second - I found John Powers' review of Kill Bill to be just a touch long in the chompers but overall, I liked and agreed with his critique.