Fishbone’s second album proved that the band was so much more than simply a ska/funk/rock novelty act, as some critics had previously (and naively) assumed.
Read moreMC Lyte’s Debut Album ‘Lyte As A Rock’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary
On her debut album, MC Lyte uses her tremendous verbal ability, husky voice and conversational flow to create wicked rhymes to go along with the neck-snapping beats.
Read moreEazy-E’s Debut Album ‘Eazy-Duz-It’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary
While it’s fair to say that N.W.A’s debut ‘Straight Outta Compton’ is the better overall album, Eazy-E’s debut solo album is a more cohesive piece of work.
Read moreIce-T’s ‘Power’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary
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.
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