The notion that the gangsta lifestyle often has dire consequences, and overall, crime does not pay echoes throughout Ice-T’s second (and greatest) album.
Read moreDigital Underground’s ‘Who Got The Gravy?’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary
The group released some of the most creative music of their career with their fifth LP, fully re-embracing the love of fun and sex that characterizes their earliest releases, while adding in other crucial ingredients.
Read moreJanelle Monáe’s ‘The Electric Lady’ Turns 10 | Album Anniversary
However understated, ‘The Electric Lady’ was Monáe’s first time peeking out from behind her protective Cindi Mayweather shield.
Read moreHole’s ‘Celebrity Skin’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary
Courtney Love has a reputation as a feral, wild woman, alternately lovelorn and savage, Hollywood glamour and boulevard trash, and she uses all of it on ‘Celebrity Skin.’
Read moreBelle & Sebastian’s ‘The Boy With The Arab Strap’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary
By employing a more democratic distribution of duties among the band members, the group’s third LP offers a much more universal view of 20-something adulthood, albeit one that’s still precarious.
Read moreJ-Zone’s ‘Peter Pan Syndrome’ Turns 10 | Album Anniversary
‘Peter Pan Syndrome’ is thus far the best project hip-hop artists reckoning with their own middle age.
Read moreX’s ‘More Fun in the New World’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary
X’s fourth studio album incorporates a rockabilly sound mixed in with insightful sociopolitical commentary to give the band the best album in their catalog.
Read moreThe National’s ‘Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers’ Turns 20 | Album Anniversary
Bluesy and boozy, The National’s second studio LP warms you like a stiff drink, and suddenly in a daze, you, the listener, are pulled into that dark den, too.
Read moreMariah Carey’s ‘Music Box’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary
Carey’s mega-selling third studio affair proves that even when tasked with holding her breath in service of the masses, her soul is irrepressible.
Read moreThe Daktaris’ ‘Soul Explosion’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary
It's fascinating that an album as arcane as Soul Explosion was an integral part of the vintage soul/funk revival. It’s even more fascinating that the “hustle” feels as authentic as the music that it was inspired by.
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