Le Tigre and the Dismemberment Plan Took Punk Into the Next Millennium
How two of indie-rock’s greatest albums broke down every remaining barrier in one day
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1999
The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs, Ranked
A belatedly mathematical celebration of an indie pop masterwork for its 20th anniversary
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We Haven’t Turned Around: Gomez’s Liquid Skin At 20
In 1999, the UK indie rockers released their sophomore set and the music flows naturally
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A Hero In The Suburbs: Richard Thompson’s Mock Tudor at 20
A look back at the British guitar hero’s last album for Capitol
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Sweet Charity: Mr. Bungle’s California Turns 20
The last LP from Mike Patton’s celebrated avant-metal ensemble remains their best
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Three Bugs, A Pound of Dust: Slipknot at 20
From the state that brought us Caucus Fever and “Monday Night Rollins” emerged metal’s greatest oddfellows with a debut LP for the ages
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Santana Speaks
A conversation with the celebrated guitarist and bandleader on the occasion of some momentous anniversaries
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Do The Peppermint Twist: The White Stripes’ Eponymous Debut Turns 20
Recalling when Jack White and his big sister Meg White were the new kids on the block
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Vertical Horizon on Defying Music Execs & Why ‘Everything You Want’ Still Hurts 20 Years Later
Don’t be a snob, you know there is no denying the staying power of these hard rock chart toppers
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Looking Back: 20 Years of Tom Waits’ Mule Variations
Two decades later, this is one ass of an LP we can still get behind
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Your Most Valuable Possession: Ben Folds Five’s The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner at 20
A look back at the pop piano trio’s third and most idiosyncratic LP
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Porcupine Tree’s Stupid Dream Turns 20
Two decades later, the group’s fifth LP and final album of the 20th century grows stranger by the minute
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Richard D. James At The End Of The 20th Century
ΔFex tΣi[N]’s “Σi[[NdσΣ1i cx∈r” t∈ r[N]s 2σ
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Whether You Like It Or Not
Hedwig and the Angry Inch at 20
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Fall Down on the World Before it Falls on You
Sleater-Kinney’s The Hot Rock turns 20
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