Random Axe’s Eponymous Debut Album ‘Random Axe’ Turns 15 | Album Anniversary

June 8, 2026 Jesse Ducker

Random Axe Eponymous Debut Album Random Axe Turns 15

Though perfectly imperfect, the album brought three superstars—Black Milk, Guilty Simpson and Sean Price—together to record a project solely focused on giving their audience raw hip-hop.

Guilty Simpson’s ‘OJ Simpson’ Turns 15 | Album Anniversary

May 17, 2025 Jesse Ducker

‘OJ Simpson’ meshes both of Guilty and Madlib’s sensibilities, and the result feels like a Blaxploitation-fueled fever dream.

Apollo Brown & Guilty Simpson’s ‘Dice Game’ Turns 10 | Album Anniversary

November 5, 2022 Jesse Ducker

Apollo Brown Guilty Simpson’s Dice Game 2012

A true hip-hop masterclass, ‘Dice Game’ finds Guilty Simpson and Apollo Brown succeeding by playing to their strengths and not complicating matters, dropping sincere rhymes over well-crafted beats.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Debut Album ‘Read My Lips’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

With her debut solo affair, Ellis-Bextor made the dancefloor feel elegant and faintly surreal, a place where heartbreak could wear lipstick and emotional catastrophe could arrive with a four-on-the-floor beat.

Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

Four decades later, ‘Graceland’ remains true to what it was from the start—a beautiful, tangled, genuinely collaborative album that changed what pop music could sound like.

The Rolling Stones’ ‘Tattoo You’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

When listening to ‘Tattoo You,’ you would never know that it is this Frankenstein's monster of an album that was pieced together with songs that came from their most creatively fertile period.