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hip hype

Rolling Stone magazine's 1999 Music Awards contrasts critics' choices with readers' favorites-and some interesting juxtapositions arise, Critics picked Rage Against the Machine as Best Artist, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band as Best Tour, and Fatboy Slim's Praise You as Best Video. Readers' picks? Backstreet Boysacross the board. Both sides selected Santana as Most Welcome Comeback, but parted company on the Biggest Hype category. While critics cited "buying records online," readers went with... Backstreet Boys. Suggesting that "hype" may not register as a negative these days.

girl power

The Last Revelation, Eidos' latest entry in the Tomb Raider series, introduces Lara Croft, teenager, and unearths the origins of her fascination with archaeology. In the training level's back story, the 16-year-old tomboy persuades her English, aristocratic father to allow her

OUT mix tapes puff daddy cheating caring about drug abuse to accompany a famed expeditioner, Werner Von Croy, to Cambodia. Croy becomes Lara's nemesis on later levels, as she tries to save the world from Armageddon-a crisis she precipitated when she accidentally freed the Egyptian god Set from his 5,000year imprisonment. (Oops.)

burn your own

As prices drop on CD recorders or "burners," homemade CD compilations are becoming the gift-to-give among teenagers and college students. CD recorders-available as stand-alone units for stereo systems or as built-in or add-on drives for PCs-still have a way to go before they're mass-market affordable, but the demand for blank CD-R audio format discs has already skyrocketed. Sales estimates for this year predict consumers will purchase almost one billion discs. A disc sells for $6, and its price includes copyright royalties to the music industry.