A white boy’s relation to rap music is a precarious thing. Sure, white folks had previously infiltrated jazz and almost completely conquered rock and roll, African Americans’ previous musical inventions...
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Here are a few more-than-worthy albums to round out my year in review. Dig in. Other Notable Albums of 1994 As always, you can jump to the playlist at the bottom of each...
Read MoreWe have a very strong tail-end of the year in review here. Almost all the albums in my top 30 installment I’d originally penciled in as top 20 material. In...
Read MoreMy top 20 felt almost impossible to select. 1994 was a strong year. Let’s get to it. Eight More Albums, for My Top 20 Albums of 1994 As always, you...
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Nowadays, Built to Spill is considered one of the original mainstays of indie rock, with a trio of mid-to-late-‘90s albums under their belt considered indie-rock classics. But they were fairly...
Read MoreThe top six of 1994 were pretty clear-cut—for me, at least. For much of the rest of my year in review, the choices were more difficult. When I look back...
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My exposure to rap music during my first couple years of grad school (1993-95) was quite limited in comparison to what it had been in undergrad. I really don’t remember...
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The story of Portishead can be told as a tale of three albums. On Dummy (1994), Portishead created a masterful blast of recombinant culture. They started with Gibbons’ torch song...
Read MoreIt’s 1994; by year’s end, the ‘90s will be half over. In the worst genocide since WWII, Hutu extremists in Rwanda massacre about 800,000 Tutsi in just 100 days. In...
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I tend to be the type of music fan who likes to hear a little edge or irregularity or pushing of musical boundaries when I listen. Straight-up singer-songwriter stuff doesn’t...
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