30th Anniversary

Alternative Rock Dance Rock New Wave Pop Rock 

Condemnation: Depeche Mode’s Songs of Faith and Devotion at 30

March 22, 2023March 22, 2023 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1993, 30th Anniversary, Alan Wilder, Andy Fletcher, Condemnation, Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, Flood, I Feel You, In Your Room, Jane's Addiction, Judas, Martin Gore, Reprise Records, Sire Records, Songs of Faith and Devotion, Walking In My Shoes

Looking back on the group’s darkest album

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Alternative Rock Pop Power Pop Rock 

Best Wishes, Simpleton: 30 Years of Jellyfish’s Spilt Milk

February 11, 2023February 11, 2023 Rachel Linhart 0 Comments 1993, 30th Anniversary, Andy Sturmer, Chris Manning, Eric Dover, Jason Faulkner, Jellyfish, Roger Joseph Manning, Skylarking, Spilt Milk, Tim Smith, XTC

Looking back on the classic album that destroyed the band but cemented its legacy

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Alternative Rock Rock 

Start Choppin’: Dinosaur Jr.’s Where You Been at 30

February 9, 2023February 9, 2023 Ryan Maffei 0 Comments 1993, 30th Anniversary, Dinosaur Jr., Get Me, J Mascis, Lou Barlow, Michael Azzerad, Mike Johnson, Murph, Sire Records, Start Choppin', Where You Been

Looking back on the band’s best album from their Sire years

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Beatle Pop Rock 

Looking For Changes: Paul McCartney’s Off The Ground at 30

February 2, 2023February 2, 2023 Gillian G. Gaar 1 Comment 1993, 30th Anniversary, Biker Like An Icon, Capitol Records, Elvis Costello, Linda McCartney, Off the Ground, Paul and Linda McCartney, Paul McCartney, The Beatles

Is it an underappreciated gem or Macca’s weakest solo album?

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Alternative Rock Dream Pop Pop Rock 

Put On Your Black Dress: Belly’s Star Turns 30

January 25, 2023January 25, 2023 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1993, 30th Anniversary, 4AD, Belly, Chris Gorman, Feed The Tree, Fred Abong, Gail Greenwood, Gepetto, Reprise Records, Sire Records, Slow Dog, Star, Tanya Donelly, Tom Gorman

Revisiting the band’s classic 1993 debut LP

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Classical Pop 

This Sad Burlesque: Elvis Costello’s The Juliet Letters at 30

January 19, 2023 Lee Zimmerman 2 Comments 1993, 30th Anniversary, Elvis Costello, Ian Belton, Jaqueline Thomas, Michael Thomas, Paul Cassidy, The Brodsky Quartet, The Juliet Letters, Warner Bros. Records

The New Wave icon entered 1993 with strings attached

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Funk Hip Hop Rap 

Let Me Ride: Dr. Dre’s The Chronic at 30

December 22, 2022February 9, 2023 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1992, 2Pac, 30th Anniversary, Aftermath Records, Death Row Records, Dr. Dre, Dre Day, Eazy-E, Jimmy Iovine, Kurupt, Let Me Ride, N.W.A, Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang, Snoop Dogg, Snoop Doggy Dogg, The Chronic, The DOC, The Lady of Rage, Tupac, Tupac Shakur

Looking back on the stickiest, ickiest hip-hop album of 1992

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Rock Stones 

Wicked As It Seems: Keith Richards’ Main Offender at 30

October 19, 2022October 19, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1992, 30th Anniversary, and bac, Bernard Fowler, Charley Drayton, Eileen, Ivan Neville, Keith Richards, Main Offender, Mick Jagger, organ, piano, producer, Sarah Dash, Steve Jordan, The X-Pensive Winos, Waddy Wachtel, Wicked As It Seems

Looking back at the Rolling Stones guitarist’s second solo album

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Alternative Rock Folk Rock 

Blood Makes Noise: Suzanne Vega’s 99.9F° at 30

October 11, 2022October 11, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1992, 30th Anniversary, 99.9F°, Blood Makes Noise, Bruce Thomas, Jerry Marotta, Mitchell Froom, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Pete Thomas, Richard Thompson, Suzanne Vega

A quick chat with the acclaimed singer-songwriter about her most adventurous LP

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Alternative Rock Folk Rock 

Sweetness Follows: R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People at 30

October 6, 2022October 6, 2022 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1992, 30th Anniversary, Andy Kaufman, Automatic For The People, Bill Berry, Drive, Everybody Hurts, Kate Pierson, KRS One, Man on the Moon, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Montgomery Clift, Peter Buck, R.E.M., Scott Litt

Looking back on a timeless time capsule of an album

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Alternative Rock Hard Rock Heavy Metal Rock 

Empty Fossil of the New Scene: Alice In Chains’ Dirt at 30

September 29, 2022September 30, 2022 Nathan Carson 0 Comments 30th Anniversary, Alice in Chains, Dam That River, Dirt, Facelift, God Smack, Jerry Cantrell, Layne Staley, Mike Starr, Rain When I Die, Rooster, Sean Kinney, Sick Man, Them Bones, William DuVall, Would?

Nathan Carson checks out the band’s sophomore classic for the very first time

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Psychedelics Rock Southern Rock 

Tones of Home: Blind Melon at 30

September 22, 2022September 30, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1992, 30th Anniversary, Blind Melon, Capitol Records, David Briggs, No Rain, Rick Parahar, Shannon Hoon

The ill-fated band’s indelible debut makes its mark

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Alternative Rock Electronic Industrial Rock 

We Get What Pigs Deserve: Nine Inch Nails’ Broken EP at 30

September 21, 2022September 21, 2022 Ted Miller 1 Comment 1992, 30th Anniversary, Adam Ant, EP, Grammys, Happiness in Slavery, Nine Inch Nails, Pinion, Pretty Hate Machine, Suck, Trent Reznor, Wish

Looking back on the harshest music to ever win a Grammy

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etc. Experimental Noise Rock 

The Earth Died Screaming: Bone Machine Turns 30

September 6, 2022September 6, 2022 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1992, 30th Anniversary, Bone Machine, David Hidalgo, Island Records, Keith Richards, Larry Taylor, Les Claypool, Los Lobos, Tom Waits

Looking back on Tom Waits’s most visceral sack of gold

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Alternative Rock Post-Punk Punk Rock 

The Act We Act: 30 Years of Sugar’s Copper Blue

September 5, 2022 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1992, 30th Anniversary, Changes, Copper Blue, Creation Records, Dave Barbe, Grant Hart, Husker Du, If I Can't Change Your Mind, Loveless, Malcolm Travis, My Bloody Valentine, Rykodisc, Sugar, The Act We Act

Looking back on a high watermark in the career of Bob Mould

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