Adele’s debut affair remains an impressive work that exhibits a level of strong musicianship and focus that served as a durable foundation for her blossoming career.
Read moreKing Tee’s ‘Tha Triflin’ Album’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary
Akin to the drunken cousin of Ice Cube’s 1991 album ‘Death Certificate,’ King Tee’s third studio affair is arguably his finest achievement on wax to date.
Read moreBelly’s Debut Album ‘Star’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary
Belly’s debut album stirs up an alchemy of jangly folk with dream pop, and ethereality with darkness, to conjure a witchy, slightly macabre fairy-tale world uniquely its own.
Read moreAretha Franklin’s ‘Lady Soul’ Turns 55 | Album Anniversary
Compared to its immediate predecessors, ‘Lady Soul’ is a more refined, yet eclectic rendering of Franklin’s deep soul underpinning.
Read more‘The Graduate’ Soundtrack (1968) Turns 55 | 10 Fast Facts
The soundtrack proved integral in the ascension of Simon & Garfunkel’s musical collaboration, galvanizing sales of their ensuing album ‘Bookends’ (1968).
Read moreWarren Zevon’s ‘Excitable Boy’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary
Zevon died in 2003 at the age of 56, having never quite recaptured the brief fame that his third studio album brought him.
Read moreThe Knife’s ‘Deep Cuts’ Turns 20 | Album Anniversary
On their sophomore album that exists at the lonely intersection of pop and experimental, the sibling duo’s individuality and unique sound sets them apart.
Read moreRufus & Chaka Khan’s ‘Street Player’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary
The album’s enduring artistic merit has been marveled in contemporary R&B circles by several of its key figures, including Erykah Badu & Mary J. Blige.
Read moreAir’s Debut Album ‘Moon Safari’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary
Air’s creativity is the hook throughout ‘Moon Safari’ but the duo’s reverence of a wide array of genres and generations is what sets them apart.
Read moreBruce Springsteen’s Debut Album ‘Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.’ Turns 50 | Album Anniversary
Springsteen’s debut studio affair is singular in his prolific oeuvre because it has everything to prove but has no idea what “prove” really means.
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