Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ Turns 35 | Anniversary Retrospective

September 19, 2026 Stephan Wyatt

The band’s second studio album made us question everything before it, everything during it and everything after it.

Tina Turner’s ‘Break Every Rule’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

September 19, 2026 Matthew Hocter

‘Break Every Rule’ did not need to manufacture another resurrection because Turner had already resurrected herself. Instead, it documented possession: of voice, sexuality, career, image and space.

The Spice Girls’ Debut Album ‘Spice’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary

September 19, 2026 Brian Grosz

Notwithstanding the inevitable backlash it received, the Spice Girls’ debut album is an outstanding record that combines feminism with funk, hip-hop, and R&B.

Wilco’s ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

September 14, 2026 Jeremy Levine

Twin feelings of stability and disorientation define the band’s fourth studio affair, with Jeff Tweedy’s singular, yearning voice giving these fifty-one minutes their gravity.

Tori Amos’ ‘Strange Little Girls’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

September 13, 2026 Erika Wolf

Although the seed of ‘Strange Little Girls’ began with songs by men, it’s really in the end, as it always is with Tori Amos, all about the girls.

WC And The Maad Circle’s Debut Album ‘Ain’t A Damn Thang Changed’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary

September 13, 2026 Jesse Ducker

WC And The Maad Circle Debut Album ‘Ain’t A Damn Thang Changed Turns 35

The group’s debut LP may not be the best-known or most acclaimed album of hip-hop’s golden era, but its relevance and impact endure three-and-a-half decades later.

Nice & Smooth’s ‘Ain’t A Damn Thing Changed’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary

September 12, 2026 Jesse Ducker

Nice & Smooth Ain’t A Damn Thing Changed Turns 35

Greg Nice & Smooth B’s classic sophomore album reflects their multiple talents and represents a triumph of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts.

Tool’s ‘Ænima’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary

September 12, 2026 Stephan Wyatt

Fifteen perfect songs in one lifetime few bands accomplish. Fifteen perfect songs, intricately connected in the Nine Circles of Hell they illuminate, Tool accomplished with their second album in 1996.

Mariah Carey’s ‘Emotions’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary

September 12, 2026 Matthew Hocter

With her second studio affair, Carey crafted a record preoccupied with love not as fantasy, but as something capable of exhilaration, humiliation, spiritual rescue and profound loss.

Cyndi Lauper’s ‘True Colors’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

September 11, 2026 Matthew Hocter

If ‘She’s So Unusual’ introduced Lauper as an explosion of personality, ‘True Colors’ asked what existed beneath it.

Amy Winehouse’s Second & Final Album ‘Back to Black’ Turns 20 | Album Anniversary

Uncomfortable, raw and resoundingly real, the late-great singer’s second and final album is soul music of the highest quality that will stand the test well beyond fifteen years.

XTC’s ‘Skylarking’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

With a bevy of great songs beyond the controversial hit single “Dear God,” ‘Skylarking’ can easily be considered the finest album of XTC’s career.

Black Sheep’s Debut Album ‘A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary

While the Native Tongues influence is unmistakably evident, Black Sheep’s debut LP contains plenty that distinguishes the duo from their musical siblings.