In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's Trout Mask Replica, a double-album featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms and guttural bellows, dramatically altered the pop landscape. Learn More
Fourty-four songs recorded on a shoestring and spread over four sides of vinyl, DOUBLE NICKELS ON THE DIME was the Minutemen's crowning achievement. Learn More
While A Tribe Called Quest was a sample-heavy group, they steered away from the ubiquitous funk and old-school samples of their fellow Native Tongue members and embraced rock and roll and jazz; this musical form would become their signature style. Learn More
This collection of stories is neither interpretation nor explanation of PJ Harvey's seminal album of the same name. Nor are Schatz's 14 chapters "covers" of the tracks, although each is based on a song from the album. Learn More
Stephen Catanzarite takes a close look at what many consider to be U2's most fully formed album through the prisms of religion, politics, spirituality, and culture, illuminating its previously unexplored depths, arguing that it's a concept album about love and the fall of man. Learn More
Ignored by virtually everyone upon its release in November 1968, The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society is now seen as one of the best British albums ever recorded. Learn More
At the time of its release in 1996, If You're Feeling Sinister was a romantic and defiantly independent artifact - a fully formed, pristine seashell of an album quietly washed ashore, waiting to be discovered by anyone who cared to look. Learn More
The backside of Nick Drake's headstone, wedged deep into the earth of an English parish church graveyard, reads: 'Now we rise and we are everywhere.' Learn More
The music of bands such as U2 or Rage Against The Machine is as 'inspirational' or 'motivational' as Celine's, but for different subcultural groups. Learn More