August 11th is being celebrated as the 50th anniversary of the dawn of hip-hop. In honor of DJ Kool Herc's landmark block party, we've collected ten of the groundbreaking and influential albums that came…
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Author Daniel de Visé offers a list of new wave classics, favoring recordings that had real impact, yielded at least one semi-legendary song, feature strong songwriting throughout, emanate a new-wavy…
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In honor of the new year, and to look back on how much the world has both changed and stayed the same, here are 10 hits from 1923 celebrating their 100th birthday.
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Under-the-radar artists like SUSS, Marisa Anderson & William Tyler, and Chuck Johnson represent the vanguard of a surging underground subculture that explores the notion of "Cosmic Americana" from a variety…
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A list of albums from artists who arrived late to the invasion, second-wave bands descended from first-wave bands, and a generation of British folkies who saw A Hard Day’s Night, bought electric guitars,…
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As we look back through the year, our editors highlight the reissues, archival releases, boxed sets and previously-unreleased gems that each of them personally connected with in 2022.
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If you typically despise the repetition of the same ten holiday songs, these alternatives might be what you need to tolerate your family and friends' seasonal cheery obsession.
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