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Six String Soul: 30 Years of the Chicago Blues with Dave Specter

January 13, 2022January 13, 2022 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 2 Comments 1991, Barkin' Bill Smith, Billy Branch, Bluebird Blues, Dave Specter, Delmark Records, Jack McDuff, Jimmy Johnson, Jorma Kaukonen, Junior Wells, Magic Slim, Otis Clay, Otis Rush, Ronnie Earl

The Windy City guitarist reflects back while looking ahead in this exclusive chat

Heavy Metal Progressive Rock

Rat Or Angel?

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021 Nathan Carson 1 Comment 1991, Angel Rat, Canada, Denis “Piggy” D’Amour, Heavy Metal, Jean-Yvez “Blacky” Theriault, Nothingface, Pink Floyd, Quebec, Rush, The Beatles, Voivod

30 years of grappling with Voivod’s disasterpiece Angel Rat

Alternative Rock Irish Rock

Don’t Let The Bastards Grind You Down: Achtung Baby At 30

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 Kara Tucker 3 Comments 1991, Achtung Baby, Adam Clayton, Bono, Daniel Lanois, Larry Mullen Jr., One, The Edge, The Fly, U2, Zoo TV

U2 kicked off their 90s with a landmark album they have yet to top

"Shoegaze" Alternative Rock Dream Pop

For The Love Of Loveless

November 5, 2021November 5, 2021 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, album, Blinda Butcher, Colm O'Cloisig, Creation Records, Kevin Shields, Loveless, My Bloody Valentine, Only Shallow, Sire Records

Looking back on 30 years of My Bloody Valentine’s enduring masterpiece

Indie Rock

Miracle On 8th Street: American Music Club’s Everclear at 30

October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, Alias Records, American Music Club, Bruce Kaplan, California, Danny Pearson, Engine, Everclear, Mark Eitzel, Mike Simms, The Restless Stranger, United Kingdom, Vudi

Beloved by rock critics and record store clerks across the land, the fifth AMC LP remains an essential listen

Power Pop Rock

LISTEN: Matthew Sweet Talks Girlfriend 30 Years Later

October 22, 2021October 30, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, Girlfriend, Greg Leisz, Ivan Julian, Lloyd Cole, Matthew Sweet, Richard Lloyd, Robert Quine, Zoo Entertainment

The alternative rock great chats exclusively with Rock & Roll Globe about his forever masterpiece

Hip Hop

The Future?: To Whom It May Concern… at 30

October 8, 2021October 9, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, A Tribe Called Quest, Aceyalone, De La Soul, Dr. Dre, Flying Lotus, Freestyle Fellowship, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Kamasi Washington, Kendrick Lamar, Myka 9, Open Mic Eagle, P.E.A.C.E., Self Jupiter, Snoop Dogg, To Whom It May Concern

It was three decades ago today when Freestyle Fellowship took rap music to its threshold of enlightenment with influential debut

Art Pop Hip Hop

P.M. Dawn’s American Utopia

September 28, 2021September 28, 2021 Jason Thurston 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, Arrested Development, Digable Planets, Gee Street, Hieroglyphics, KRS One, Minutemix, Of the Heart, Of the Soul and Of the Cross: The Utopian Experience, OutKast, P.M. Dawn, Paper Doll, Prince Be, Set Adrift On Memory Bliss, Spearhead

Looking back on 30 years of the debut album by one of hip-hop’s most misunderstood acts

Hip Hop jazz

Back In The Days When I Was A Teenager: The Low End Theory at 30

September 27, 2021April 3, 2022 Daniel Offner 0 Comments 1991, A Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Check The Rhime, Jarobi, Jazz, Phife, Phife Dawg, Q-Tip, Ron Carter, Scenario, Skypager, The Low End Theory

How A Tribe Called Quest’s sophomore masterpiece put the spotlight on their secret weapon and changed the course of rap music

Alternative Rock Hard Rock Indie Rock Noise Pop Post-Hardcore Post-Punk Power Pop Punk Rock

Oh Well, Whatever: ‘Nevermind’ at 30

September 23, 2021April 3, 2022 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1991, Breed, Dave Grohl, DGC, Garth Brooks, Geffen, In Bloom, Krist Noveselic, Kurt Cobain, Mariah Carey, MC Hammer, Nevermind, Nirvana, On a Plain, Polly, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Territorial Pissings

The breakout success of the second Nirvana album was both a gift and a curse for Kurt Cobain

Alternative Rock Irish Rock

Kirsty MacColl: They (Still) Don’t Know

September 1, 2021September 1, 2021 Steve Holtje 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, Desperate Character, Electric Landlady, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Marr, Kirsty MacColl, Steve Lillywhite, They Don't Know

It’s been 30 years since she released one of the best albums of 1991 with Electric Landlady; her flowers are long overdue

adblock Alternative Rock Hard Rock Rock

Pearl Jam and Me: The First Six Years

August 29, 2021August 29, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1991, 1996, 25th Anniversary, 30th Anniversary, Alive, Dave Abbruzzese, Dave Kruzen, Eddie Vedder, Evenflow, Jack Irons, Jeff Ament, Mike McCready, No Code, Pearl Jam, Porch, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stone Gossard, Ten

Celebrating two key album-versaries from America’s most important rock band

Alternative Rock

Teenage Kicks at the First Lollapalooza

August 15, 2021August 15, 2021 Ron Hart 2 Comments 1991, Body Count, Butthole Surfers, Henry Rollins, Ice-T, Jane's Addiction, Living Colour, Lollapalooza, Nine Inch Nails, Rollins Band, Siouxsie and the Banshees

30 years ago, me and a bunch of my friends stood at the precipice of Perry Farrell’s “Alternative Nation” and lived to tell the tale

Heavy Metal Metal!

Metallica Season Is Upon Us

August 12, 2021August 12, 2021 Lily Moayeri 1 Comment 1991, Alessia Cara & The Warning, Cliff Burton, Dave Gahan, J Balvin, James Hetfield, James Newsted, Juanes, Kamasi Washington, Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich, Metallica, Moses Sumney, Phoebe Bridgers, Robert Trujillo, Rodrigo y Gabriela, St. Vincent, The $24.95 Book, The Blacklist

40 years for the band, 30 years for their biggest album and a $24.95 Book that chronicles it all

Dance Pop

A Future Love Paradise: Seal at 30

July 22, 2021July 22, 2021 Thomas Inskeep 2 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, Acid House, Adamski, Crazy, Future Love Paradise, George Michael, Killer, Seal, Sire, Trevor Horn, Violet

His debut is still a stunner three decades later, and still the best Seal album

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