Music

  • Features ziggy

    Partying Like It’s 1979

    Vinyl is the ultimate analog format in a digital age. So why is it making such a huge comeback?

  • Soundboard Living Colour

    The Sounds of Colour

    Living Colour’s The Chair in the Doorway reminds one humble fan why they’re one of rock’s most important bands.

  • Features Disney/Pixar

    Farewell to the Aughties

    The decade between 2000 and 2009 was the stuff of our wildest dreams and our darkest nightmares. Here’s SPJ’s final farewell to a great ten years of entertainment.

  • Features outkast

    Top 10 Albums of the Aughties

    Our picks of the best albums from a decade that brought classics from OutKast, Radiohead, The Strokes, and more.

  • Features dark-night1

    The Best Albums of 2009

    All this talk about the end of the decade (including our own in the next couple of weeks) has obscured the usual year-end superlatives that give critics a reason to live in December.

  • Roundtable u2batman

    A Remembrance of Soundtracks Past

    We take a look back at some of our favorite soundtracks from the golden age of movie/music corporate product synergy: the 90s.

  • Features radiohead

    Top 10 Musical Artists of the Aughties

    Who are the musicians that defined the first decade of the new millennium? Here are our picks of the biggest innovators and hitmakers of the Aughties.

  • Listed michael_jackson

    7 Songs That Wouldn’t Exist Without Michael Jackson

    Michael Jackson is among the most sampled artists ever, but quite a few songs take their cues from his hits without even sampling him.

  • Taste Batman Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

    Batman – Prince

    Twenty years later, despite its unfortunate place in film history, Prince’s homage to the Caped Crusader works better than ever.

  • Fresh flaminglips

    Flaming Lips Drop Details on New Album(s)

    Frontman Wayne Coyne hopes the group’s new 2 disc record joins the double album pantheon with Physical Graffiti and The White Album