Send us Fan Mail By 1994, the UK music scene was swept up in the bright, celebratory wave of Britpop, but Manic Street Preachers responded by releasing a harrowing, uncompromising masterpiece that completely defied expectations. The Holy Bible traded the…
Send us Fan Mail By 2004, the indie rock scene was dominated by loud, sprawling collectives, but Leslie Feist stepped away from the noise of Broken Social Scene to release a delicate, intimate masterpiece that completely defied expectations. Let It…
Send us Fan Mail By 1994, the Seattle grunge explosion was starting to fracture, but Soundgarden responded by releasing a massive, hour-plus behemoth that completely defied expectations. Superunknown traded the straight-ahead aggressive metal of their earlier work for a dark,…
Send us Fan Mail Before rock and roll became completely polished and stadium-ready, there was the Faces. In 1971, they captured the absolute pinnacle of sloppy, joyous, blues-soaked rock with A Nod Is as Good as a Wink… to a…
Send us Fan Mail Nick Lowe is the unsung hero of the late-70s British music scene. As the legendary in-house producer for Stiff Records, he helped launch the punk and new wave movements, but on his 1979 solo album Labour…
Send us Fan Mail In 1972, Curtis Mayfield was tasked with scoring a gritty blaxploitation film. Instead of just providing background music, he delivered a socially conscious, funk-driven opus that completely eclipsed the movie it was written for. Super Fly…
Send us Fan Mail If you want to know exactly when the 1960s British Blues explosion caught fire, look no further than this 1966 landmark. Fresh off his departure from The Yardbirds, a young Eric Clapton teamed up with blues…
Send us Fan Mail What happens when a studio prodigy locks himself in a room and decides to play literally every instrument himself? You get Todd Rundgren’s sprawling 1972 double album, Something It’s an audacious, chaotic blend of perfect power-pop,…
Send us Fan Mail Recorded in just two midnight sessions with nothing but a guitar, a piano, and a single microphone, Nick Drake’s Pink Moon (1972) is a haunting departure from the lush orchestrations of his earlier work. It’s a…
Send us Fan Mail In 1994, The Tragically Hip were the biggest band in Canada, but instead of playing it safe after the massive success of Fully Completely, they went to New Orleans to get weird. The result was Day…