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35 years ago today (10/15/90) Ride released its debut LP Nowhere, considered by many to be the shoegaze movement’s greatest triumph. With its hazy psychedelic presentation and crossovers to dream-pop, Ride effortlessly helped launch a couple of genres, yet still placed the band alongside My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, and Lush…

40 years ago today (10/14/85), Iron Maiden released their double-live album: Live After Death. This 102-minute opus showcases Maiden at the peak of their powers with its Bruce Dickinson-helmed lineup that was heavy on Number of the Beast, Powerslave, and Piece of Mind material. No symphonies back up the band,…

20 years ago today (10/10/05), MF DOOM and Danger Mouse released their lone album as Danger Doom – The Mouse and the Mask. It was one of the most imaginative and conceptually tight hip-hop records of the 2000s as it emerged from DOOM’s post-Madvillainy hot streak and Danger Mouse’s newfound…

25 years ago today (10/9/00), Canadian post-rock band released their second LP Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven. The four primary instrumental tracks on Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven are composed of individually named internal movements, evoking rumbling and thought-provoking soundscapes with titular buildups. Check…

45 years ago today, on October 8, 1980, Talking Heads released their fourth studio album, Remain in Light. This time, the band, along with producer Brian Eno, decided to experiment with African polyrhythms and recorded the instrumental tracks as a series of samples and loops. Additional musicians were frequently used…

25 years ago today (10/7/00), following the last stop on their 2000 tour, a show in Mountain View, California, Phish went on hiatus, which lasted 815 days. This was the first break of any sort since the band formed in 1983 and spent 17 plus years forming the bedrock of…

25 years ago today (10/3/00), The Cars’ co-lead-singer and bass player Benjamin Orr died of cancer at home in Atlanta at the age of 53. Orr sang lead vocals on familiar Cars hits like “Just What I Needed”, “Bye Bye Love”, “Moving In Stereo”, “Let’s Go”, “It’s All I Can…

When ranking Iron Maiden albums from worst to best, you’ll more likely than not find the two ’90s albums that Blaze Bayley sang lead vocals on as the worst (The X Factor and Virtual XI), although technically, there is no such thing as a bad Iron Maiden album. But how…

40 years ago today (September 30, 1985), Tom Waits released Rain Dogs, his ninth studio album and one often referred to as his strongest. It’s the second installment in what fans often call his “Frank’s Wild Years” trilogy, framed around stories of outsiders, drifters, and the forgotten souls of the…

45 years ago today (September 29, 1980), Kurtis Blow released his self-titled debut album, a pioneering work in hip-hop. The debut holds an important place in hip-hop history as one of the very first full-length rap albums released by a major label (Mercury Records). Blow had already made waves the…