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bLISTerd: The 100 Best Albums of the ’90s: The Top Ten!!

by MJ on Nov 4, 2011 • 5 Comments

Pearl Jam has two albums in the Top 10, but do they lay claim to the #1 spot on our list of the ’90s best albums?

New Release Report 9/27/11: Oh Well, Whatever. Nevermind (Again)

by MJ on Sep 27, 2011 • 5 Comments

hip-hop / Indie Rock / music / New Release Report / New Releases / news / Pop Music / rock music / soul music

Twenty years ago this week, a trio of wildly influential albums came out. Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Blood Sugar Sex Magik gave that L.A.-based band their biggest success, turned rock/rap into an official “thing” and gave Rick Rubin producer cred after a couple of years in the wilderness. A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory turned that group from De La Soul Jr. into one of hip-hop’s most original and inventive acts. Meanwhile, Nirvana’s Nevermind helped bring alternative rock […]

Spin Cycle: “Newermind”

by Zachary Stiegler on Aug 26, 2011 • 2 Comments

Album Reviews / music / New Releases / rock music / Spin Cycle

Nirvana’s breakthrough album turns 20 this year (we can’t believe it either). Although the official commemoration won’t occur until the anticipated reissues this fall , culturally we’re already reflecting on the album’s music and impact. Much like it’s celebration of Prince’s Purple Rain two years ago, Spin magazine’s latest edition has a feature on Nevermind that includes stories behind the album and reflections from a veritable who’s who of rock on what Nevermind means to them. Also included is a free download of Newermind, […]

Chart Stalker Extra: It Was Twenty Years Ago Today…(Almost)

by MJ on Jul 14, 2011 • 3 Comments

Country Music / hip-hop / pop culture / Pop Music / rock music

When you see that there’s a Chart Stalker Extra, you know it means one thing. This week’s Billboard chart is boring. As. Shit. Really, it is. There weren’t any major new releases last week, so that means Beyonce holds on for a second frame at Number One, moving a still impressive 115,000 units. She’ll cross the Gold sales threshold next week, but her stint at the top will be over by that point. It looks like next week’s chart champ […]

Blerd Briefs Extra: Classic (and Not So Classic) Albums Get the Reissue Treatment!

by MJ on Jul 1, 2011 • 2 Comments

music / New Releases / news / reissues / rock music

If you’ve been following the “Flashback ’91” posts over at Popdose , then you are well aware that a lot of classic albums reach their 20th anniversary this year. 1991 was a watershed moment for pop music-the year alternative fucked up the mainstream and killed the hair-band era, the year hardcore hip-hop stopped being urban America’s secret, and the year U2 and R.E.M. went from being great bands to being legendary bands. Bono and the boys are jumping onto the reissue […]

Award Show Sundays: The Nirvana Concussion Episode

by MJ on Sep 5, 2010 • 1 Comment

award shows / rock music / TV

I didn’t have MTV until 1994, by which time I was 18 years old. Well, slight correction-there was MTV available in my various residences from 1984-1994, but I wasn’t allowed to watch it on the rare occasions when I was even allowed to control the TV that had cable (long story). I was lucky, however, because for a few years in the late Eighties and early Nineties, the MTV VMAs would run on network TV (usually Fox, but I could […]