2024

Released on October 7, 1997, Janet Jackson’s sixth studio album, The Velvet Rope, caught a lot of people off guard with its frank exploration of...

In 2003, Ludacris claimed he was the “new phenomenon like white women with ass” on the second cut from his fourth studio album Chicken-n-Beer and, well, he wasn’t lying....

The title of Rise Against’s fifth studio album, Appeal To Reason, had multiple meanings. It’s the name of the socialist newspaper where Upton Sinclair first...

One of the undoubted musical high points of 2002 was the arrival of a young chanteuse from Texas who sang mellow, jazz-inflected pop with a...

It’s hard not to hear the similarities between country and Tejano music, once you lock into them. Tejano is one of the most popular forms...

Side Three of “The White Album” includes some of the heaviest songs in The Beatles’ catalog. But the disc closes with one of their more...