20th Anniversary

Rock 

Instinct Blues: The White Stripes’ Get Behind Me Satan Turns 20

June 7, 2025June 7, 2025 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 2005, 20th Anniversary, Blue Orchid, Get Behind Me Satan, Jack White, Meg White, The White Stripes, Third Man Records, V2 Records

Looking back at the Detroit duo’s penultimate LP

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Alternative Rock Rock 

Wishful Thinking: Wilco’s A Ghost Is Born at 20

June 24, 2024June 24, 2024 Justin Cober-Lake 0 Comments 2004, 2024, 20th Anniversary, A Ghost Is Born, Glenn Kotchke, Jeff Tweedy, Jim O'Rourke, John Stirratt, Nels Cline, Wilco

A look back at the Chicago greats’ most divisive album

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Alternative Rock Noise Rock 

Just Being Totally Perfect: Sonic Nurse Turns 20

June 8, 2024June 8, 2024 Dan Weiss 1 Comment 2004, 20th Anniversary, Goo, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Mariah Carey, Murray Street, Rather Ripped, Sonic Nurse, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore

Looking back on a high watermark in the Sonic Youth catalog

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Hard Rock Heavy Metal Rock 

Dimebag Darrell’s Studio Swan Song

February 12, 2024February 12, 2024 Emily Bellino 0 Comments 2004, 20th Anniversary, Bob "Bobzilla" Kakaha, Corey Taylor, Damageplan, Dimebag Darrell, New Found Power, Pantera, Patrick Lachman, Rex Brown, Slipknot, Vinnie Paul

A look back at Damageplan’s sole effort New Found Power

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Indie Rock Pop Rock 

Nothing Like We’d Ever Dreamt: The Shins’ Chutes Too Narrow at 20

October 23, 2023October 23, 2023 Ted Miller 0 Comments 2003, 20th Anniversary, Chutes Too Narrow, Fountains of Wayne, James Mercer, Marty Crandall, Sub Pop Records, The Flamin' Groovies, The Kinks, The Magnetic Fields, The Shins

Looking back on the indie rock greats’ career-defining second album

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Folk Punk Rock World 

Long Shadow: Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros’ Streetcore at 20

October 21, 2023October 21, 2023 Addie Moore 0 Comments 2003, 20th Anniversary, Bob Marley, Joe Strummer, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, Johnny Cash, Rick Rubin, Streetcore, The Clash

Looking back on the British punk great’s final studio salvo

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Indie Rock Rock 

Everyone Chooses Sides: The Wrens’ The Meadowlands at 20

September 19, 2023September 19, 2023 Ryan Maffei 0 Comments 2003, 20th Anniversary, Brian Wilson, Charles Bissell, Greg Whelan, Jerry MacDonald, Kevin Whelan, The Fixx, The Meadowlands, The Wrens

A look back at the classic album that made – and unmade – the Jersey rockers

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Folk Rock 

Please Stay: Warren Zevon’s The Wind at 20

August 26, 2023August 26, 2023 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2003, 20th Anniversary, Billy Bob Thornton, Bruce Springsteen, David Lindley, Don Henley, Dwight Yoakam, Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne, Joe Walsh, John Waite, Keep Me In Your Heart, Mike Campbell, Ry Cooder, T-Bone Burnett, The Wind, Tom Petty, Warren Zevon

Looking back on the acclaimed songwriter’s fateful final album

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jazz Pop Rock 

Slang of Ages: Steely Dan’s Everything Must Go at 20

June 10, 2023June 11, 2023 Ryan Maffei 1 Comment 2003, 20th Anniversary, Donald Fagen, Everything Must Go, Reprise Records, Steely Dan, Walter Becker

A look back at Becker and Fagen’s so-subtle – too subtle? – studio swan song

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Alternative Rock Pop Power Pop Rock 

No Better Place: Fountains of Wayne’s Welcome Interstate Managers at 20

June 9, 2023June 9, 2023 Ryan Maffei 0 Comments 2003, 20th Anniversary, Adam Schlesinger, Chris Collingwood, Fountains of Wayne, Jody Porter, Martin Amis, Stacy's Mom, The Beatles, The Cars, Utopia Parkway, Welcome Interstate Managers

Looking back on the band’s biggest album

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Electronic Hip Hop Instrumental 

Spirit Fingers: Four Tet’s Rounds at 20

May 20, 2023May 20, 2023 Chris Parker 0 Comments 2003, 20th Anniversary, Beats, Domino Records, Four Tet, Fridge, instrumental, Kieran Hebden, Rounds

Looking back on the sonic pointilism of Kieran Hebden’s studio masterwork

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Dance Rock Indie Rock Punk Rock 

Growing Old Under the Gun: Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Fever to Tell Turns 20

April 28, 2023April 28, 2023 Ted Miller 1 Comment 2003, 20th Anniversary, Brian Chase, Fever to Tell, Karen O, Maps, New York City, Nick Zinner, Y Control, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Looking back on the New York City trio’s best album

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Indie Rock Rock 

Nothing But Them and Us: Yo La Tengo’s Summer Sun Turns 20

April 10, 2023April 10, 2023 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 2003, 20th Anniversary, Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan, James McNew, Matador Records, Summer Sun, Yo La Tengo

Looking back on a most underrated YLT album

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Alternative Rock Indie Rock Rock 

When Cloven Hoofprints Turn Up in the Garden: The Mountain Goats’ Tallahassee at 20

November 21, 2022November 21, 2022 Ted Miller 0 Comments 2002, 20th Anniversary, 4AD, All Hail West Texas, Jeff Magnum, John Darnielle, Phil Ochs, Tallahassee, The Beatles, The Mountain Goats

The band’s pivotal, heartbreaking major-indie debut was their first true concept album

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Alternative Rock Folk Rock 

Let the Golden Age Begin: Beck’s Sea Change at 20

September 26, 2022September 26, 2022 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 2002, 20th Anniversary, Beck, Beck Hansen, DGC Records, Dust Brothers, Lost Cause, Mellow Gold, Midnite Vultures, Mutations, Nigel Godrich, Odelay, Paper Tiger, Sea Change, The Golden Age

How a broken-hearted Mr. Hansen expressed himself pastorally

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