Bob Dylan’s ‘Modern Times’ Turns 20 | Album Anniversary

August 26, 2026 Jeremy Levine

‘Modern Times’ mourns a musical idiom by giving it another good try, because if it’s in your bones, that’s how you grieve stuff anyway.

Bob Dylan’s ‘Blonde on Blonde’ Turns 60 | Album Anniversary

June 14, 2026 Jesse Ducker

Dylan has recorded all manner of music in the 60 years since his seventh studio LP was released, but he has rarely sounded as confident and self-assured as he did on this album.

Bob Dylan’s ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ Turns 60 | Album Anniversary

August 29, 2025 Jesse Ducker

Many Dylan devotees and critics alike still consider ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ to be his most towering achievement across his prolific recording career.

Bob Dylan’s ‘Saved’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

June 22, 2025 Mike Elliott

Where ‘Slow Train Coming’ (1979) had been seen as a curious novelty, ‘Saved’ doubled down on Dylan’s conversion and reinforced that he was serious about this Jesus stuff.

Bob Dylan’s ‘Bringing It All Back Home’ Turns 60 | Album Anniversary

March 21, 2025 Jesse Ducker

Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home Turns 60

As complex and contradictory as all great works of art, Dylan’s fifth studio affair brought forth changes that are now so ingrained into the fabric of music that we assume that they’ve always existed.

Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood On The Tracks’ Turns 50 | Album Anniversary

January 18, 2025 Jesse Ducker

Bob Dylan Blood On The Tracks 50 anniversary

Whether or not ‘Blood On The Tracks’ is based on reality is immaterial. The album still has a power that hasn’t waned in the past five decades.

Bob Dylan’s ‘Another Side of Bob Dylan’ Turns 60 | Album Anniversary

August 4, 2024 Jesse Ducker

Dylan’s fourth studio album was integral in directing the next half century of his storied career, as the alternate side of the singer-songwriter became the prevalent side.

Bob Dylan’s ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’’ Turns 60 | Album Anniversary

January 12, 2024 Sarah Paolantonio

With a stripped-down nature that makes the stories feel close and the emotion raw, Dylan’s third studio LP tackles the American trademarks of racism, poverty, and social change.

Bob Dylan’s ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’ Turns 60 | Album Anniversary

May 21, 2023 Jesse Ducker

With his second studio LP, Dylan was recognized as a serious singer-songwriter in the mold of Woody Guthrie, speaking profoundly about complex issues.

Bob Dylan’s ‘Time Out of Mind’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

September 25, 2022 Jesse Ducker

‘Time Out of Mind’ took risks, succeeded, and was rewarded. There wasn’t a Bob Dylan album like it before, and there likely won’t be another ever again.

The Unspoken Heard’s Debut Album ‘Soon Come…’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

With their collaborative debut, Asheru and Blue Black established that intelligent, immaculately crafted and vibe-heavy music very much had a place in the vital independent hip-hop paradigm.

Slowdive’s Debut Album ‘Just For A Day’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary

From start to finish, the band’s debut affair utterly glows, with its aural atmosphere that is constantly scintillating, building and bursting with sonic energy in incessant crescendoing wah-wah bliss.

Naughty By Nature’s Eponymous Second Album ‘Naughty By Nature’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary

The songs featured here feel authentic and expertly executed, and even the songs that seemed geared toward pop success don’t clash with the group’s sensibilities.