JR White passed away on October 18, 2020, at the age of 40, leaving behind a special body of work as a producer/engineer, and…
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Let’s get the obvious out of the way: Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is a masterpiece. The…
Steve Albini boasts a legacy that is at once massive and, at the same time, pretty fucking stupid. The albums he worked on as…
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After writing the early blueprint for ’90s R&B, Mary J. Blige laid out her own musical foundations on 1994’s My Life. The influence of…
Widely hailed as a major turn in Emmylou Harris’s already illustrious career, the 1995 album Wrecking Ball found the beloved country artist exploring new…
It’s only appropriate that Dusty Springfield’s 1969 record — which found the singer’s vocal sensibilities shifting over to R&B, and to more deliberately paced…
For a band so insistent on defying any and all principles of behavior, even (or perhaps especially) when it meant sabotaging their own success,…
There comes a time in every young pop vixen’s career — usually, after her third or fourth album has dropped and sales slowly start…
It can be tempting to give up early on Radio City — right after album opener “O, My Soul,” the one song here that…