Although Eric B. & Rakim’s musical partnership ended unexpectedly after four albums, they went out on a high note with ‘Don’t Sweat the Technique.’
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The Lemonheads’ fifth studio affair vividly encapsulates the ’90s slacker zeitgeist, by way of ’60s hippie tradition—and it did so even back then as it was happening.
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Arguably Apple’s biggest creative pivot point in her career thus far, her fourth album captures the sounds of a preternaturally gifted singer/songwriter/musician becoming a self-possessed song artisan.
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With peaks stronger than its valleys, ‘Mirage’ returned Fleetwood Mac to rock preeminence after the commercial and critical step back the band took with ‘Tusk’ (1979).
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‘OK Computer’ hits the parts of us we’d rather not talk about, lest we find ourselves alone in the darkness, as we predicted all along.
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‘Shapes and Patterns’ was the crystallization of the group transferring the aesthetics of their musical heroes into a modern context.
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With their 1997 inaugural effort, Capone-N-Noreaga were commissioned to frontline warfare as defenders of hip-hop’s birthplace in New York City.
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After the dust settled following the release of ‘Ziggy Stardust,’ Bowie’s glorious transformation to full-fledged rock & roll star was complete.
Read moreEn Vogue’s ‘EV3’ Turns 25 | Anniversary Retrospective
Downsized from the original quartet to a trio in 1997, En Vogue presented their mature and aptly-retitled third studio affair—a scrappy, sharpened Swiss army knife of R&B, pop, and funk.
Read moreAZ’s ‘Aziatic’ Turns 20 | Anniversary Retrospective
With his previous two LPs not receiving the acclaim of his 1995 debut ‘Doe or Die,’ ‘Aziatic’ thrust AZ back into the conversation of rap’s elite.
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