New Yorker Pop Roundup:
Twelve Favorites from Our 2001 CD Rotation

• Aaliyah: Aaliyah (Blackground)
• Nikka Costa: Everybody Got Their Something (Virgin)
• Bob Dylan: Love and Theft (Columbia)
• Missy Elliott: Miss E . . . So Addictive (Elektra)
• Gorillaz: Gorillaz (Virgin)
• Jay-Z: The Blueprint (Roc-A-Fella)
• Langley Schools Music Project: Innocence and Despair (Bar None)
• Sparklehorse: It's a Wonderful Life (Capitol)
• Nortec Collective: The Tijuana Sessions Vol. 1 (Palm)
• Prince: The Rainbow Children (NPG)
• The Strokes: Is This It? (RCA)
• Gillian Welch: Time (The Revelator) (Acony)