30th Anniversary

Power Pop Rock 

LISTEN: Matthew Sweet Talks Girlfriend 30 Years Later

October 22, 2021October 22, 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Funk jazz Pop Soul 

Aaron Neville: Warming Hearts In Crescent City

June 30, 2021August 4, 2021 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, A&M Records, Aaron Neville, Bo Diddley, Bobby Blue BLand, Everybody Plays The Fool, Fats Domino, Linda Ronstadt, New Orleans, Roy Orbison, Tipitina’s, Warm Your Heart

Looking back at the New Orleans icon’s epic 1991

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Folk Rock 

I’m Gonna Break Somebody’s Heart Tonight: Rumor and Sigh at 30

June 29, 2021August 4, 2021 Robert Baird 0 Comments 1952 Vincent Black Lightning, 1991, 30th Anniversary, Alternative Rock, Capitol, Fairport Convention, Mitchell Froom, MTV, Richard Thompson, Rumor and Sigh

Richard Thompson’s opening salvo for the 1990s remains one of the best works in the English guitar maverick’s extensive catalog

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Hip Hop Rap 

How’d You Get My Name and Number?: De La Soul Is Dead at 30

May 20, 2021May 21, 2021 Daniel Offner 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, De La Soul, De La Soul Is Dead, Long Island, Maseo, Plug 1, Plug 2, Plug 3, Posdnuos, Prince Paul, Tom Waits, Tommy Boy, Trugoy, Trugoy The Dove

Still unavailable on streaming services, the second De La Soul albums nevertheless remains a high-water mark in hip-hop creativity

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Alternative Rock Hard Rock Rock 

The Enduring Heartbreak of Temple Of The Dog

May 3, 2021August 4, 2021 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, Chris Cornell, Eddie Vedder, Hunger Strike, L, Mike McCready, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam, Seattle, Temple of the Dog

How an album put together by members of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden as a tribute to Mother Love Bone frontman Andrew Wood took on new meaning five years after the passing of Chris Cornell

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Alternative Rock Funk Ska 

Fight The Youth: 30 Years of a Fishbone Masterpiece

April 24, 2021April 24, 2021 Jason Webber 2 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, Angelo Moore, Fishbone, Nevermind, Nirvana, Norwood Fisher, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Reality of My Surroundings

The Reality of My Surroundings once got me in trouble; it was worth it

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Alternative Rock Pop Rock 

Near Wild Heaven: Out Of Time Turns 30

March 12, 2021March 12, 2021 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, Bill Berry, Losing My Religion, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Near Wild Heaven, Out Of Time, Peter Buck, R.E.M., Scott Litt, Shiny Happy People

Was the biggest R.E.M. album also their best?

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Crush Story: Cereal Killers at 30

March 12, 2021March 12, 2021 Ryan Maffei 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, Blink-182, Cereal Killers, CHEAP TRICK, Giant Records, Martha Quinn, MTV, Sandy Smallens, The Who, Tim Quirk, Too Much Joy

Three decades on, Too Much Joy look back on the album that almost murdered their cult status

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Why Insane Clown Posse Matters

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 Jason Webber 7 Comments 30th Anniversary, Insane Clown Posse, Juggalo March, Juggalos, Shaggy 2 Dope, Violent J, Washington D.C.

In honor of Juggalo Day and the 30th anniversary of their debut, we bring you a full throated appreciation of Detroit rap’s most misunderstood masterminds and unlikely changemakers

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Alternative Rock Power Pop 

It’s an International Pop…OVER-Throw!

February 5, 2021February 5, 2021 David Bash 3 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, International Pop Overthrow, International Pop Overthrow 2019, International Pop Overthrow festival, Jim Ellison, Material Issue, Mercury Records

Celebrating 30 years of Material Issue’s power pop masterpiece

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