A Pocket Full of Horses: Prince’s 1999 at 40
Looking back at the Purple One’s breakthrough double LP
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Cosmopolitan Blood Loss: Glassjaw’s Worship & Tribute At 20
Looking back at the Long Island post-hardcore mavens’ complicated sophomore classic
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Paul Simon at 50: Warm, In Your Coat
Half a Century nn, Paul Simon’s self-titled solo album reflects essential independence
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A Queens Boy Under African Skies: Paul Simon Is 80
How Graceland helped guide me to a lifelong love for global music
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ALBUMS: New Flaming Lips Record Writes a Requiem for Stoner Suburbia
‘American Head’ grew up in the 60s and 70s, just like we did
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California Suite: The 25th Anniversary of Orange Crate Art
How the unsung 1995 collaboration between Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks resonates even more in 2020
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Listen to the Music: Producer Ted Templeman’s Vivid, Likable Memoir
The A&R guy who signed the Doobie Brothers and Van Halen looks back on a ‘Life in Music’
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The Night ZZ Top Burned New Orleans Down: 45 Years of Fandango!
Blues, boogie and sleazy swing = the greatest half-live album ever
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Satan’s Coming ‘Round The Bend: Black Sabbath At 50
The Jazz! The Devil! The Downtuning! It was all part of the recipe for the LP that defined heavy metal
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Gonna Take Off My Pants: Randy Newman’s Born Again at 40
Was the pop bard simply not made for the times in 1979?
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Don’t Let the Perfect Jenny Lewis Be the Enemy of the Good Jenny Lewis
Is the former Rilo Kiley singer’s fourth solo album too manicured for its own gain?
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A Modern Bluesman’s Political Awakening
Gary Clark Jr. holds nothing back on his third album This Land
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A Fraction of the Sum
Built to Spill’s Keep It Like a Secret at 20
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Sing Me Back Home
The Everly Brothers’ Roots at 50
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Know One Knows
Inside Badfinger’s Warner Bros. era
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