Despite its more mainstream appeal and undeniable role in pushing hip-hop to greater global heights, Run-DMC’s third studio affair remains one of the rawest albums of the era.
Read moreDe La Soul’s ‘De La Soul Is Dead’ Turns 30 | Anniversary Retrospective
Anyone with a pulse can benefit from listening to the inspired ‘De La Soul Is Dead,’ the most masterful of De La Soul’s multiple album masterpieces.
Read moreIce-T’s ‘O.G. Original Gangster’ Turns 30 | Anniversary Retrospective
Sprawling and ambitious in scope, the album’s themes and ideas are still pertinent in our current cultural climate, and its lyricism and musicality are timeless.
Read moreGrace Jones’ ‘Nightclubbing’ Turns 40 | Anniversary Retrospective
A genre-fluid, head-bobbing bundle of coolness, Jones' fifth studio album is a decadent, tasty meal of wide-ranging musical flavors.
Read moreEverything But The Girl’s ‘Walking Wounded’ Turns 25 | Anniversary Retrospective
An album that exquisitely merges the cerebral, emotional and physical, Tracey Thorn & Ben Watt’s ‘Walking Wounded’ sounds as sublime as ever 25 years later.
Read moreThe Cure’s ‘Wild Mood Swings’ Turns 25 | Anniversary Retrospective
A vibrant mix of stylistic detours and narrative departures, The Cure’s tenth studio album channels a refreshing curiosity for the possibilities of life.
Read moreDave Matthews Band’s ‘Crash’ Turns 25 | Anniversary Retrospective
More confident, sophisticated, and varied than its precursor ‘Under the Table and Dreaming,’ ‘Crash’ remains DMB’s greatest studio achievement to date.
Read moreLisa Fischer’s Debut (and Only) Studio Album ‘So Intense’ Turns 30 | Anniversary Retrospective
At a time when many were transfixed by the newness of Mariah Carey’s whistle register notes, Fischer had access to the same range and could slip in and out of it gracefully, or lean into it powerfully.
Read moreRhymin’ on the Funk: Remembering Shock G | In Memoriam
Photo: Todd Williamson | Getty Images
As both Shock G and his infamous alter ego Humpty Hump, the inventive Digital Underground frontman was the proverbial life of the party, but one who wielded great wisdom all the while.
Read moreBeastie Boys’ Final Studio Album ‘Hot Sauce Committee Part Two’ Turns 10 | Anniversary Retrospective
Though the trio never got to take a proper final musical bow, their final statement together is very good on its own terms.
Read more