It Was 20 Years Ago…

Somewhere between a man beating himself bloody with spoons and a producer ripping a door off its hinges, Soundgarden made the record they'd been waiting…

It's hard not to work through the what if's of Live Through This. What if the world had gotten a proper introduction to this album?

The Wu-Tang Clan introduced themselves to the world cloaked in a shroud of mystery. Claiming the hip-hop hinterland of Staten Island as their homeland, the…

The Blue Note Records catalogue dates back to 1939 — and names like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman are just the tip of…

During his first three seasons on Saturday Night Live, Adam Sandler's best and funniest characters included a mushmouthed man-child in a straw hat, a hanky-waving…

In 1993 at the age of 26, Juliana Hatfield was in the eye of the alternative-rock storm. She'd made a name for herself as one…

In 1992, it might have looked like Soul Asylum were a band nearing the end of their career, not one about to embark on a…

In 1993, no rock record was as divisive as Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville. With her 18-song double-LP debut, Phair pried the lid off her…

PJ Harvey has a walloping, 50-foot-tall legacy — musicially and emotionally raw when stadium angst was a boys club; opening the door for everyone from…

Los Angeles was the molten-hot core of hip-hip in the early '90s, and no year was more heated than 1993. The feud between Dr. Dre…

It's easy to forget just how weird the landscape of popular music was in the early-to-mid-'90s. The success of bands like R.E.M., the Red Hot…

The jangle and rasp of "Low," the leadoff track from Cracker's 1993 platinum album Kerosene Hat, was a ubiquitous signpost of the alternative-as-the-new-mainstream era. As…

With lyrics comparing cops to Klansmen, a free-noise breakdown, and a bridge containing "FUCK YOU" repeated no less than 16 times, rap-rock agitators Rage Against…

Bikini Kill were more than a band — and intentionally so. They were a beacon and a call to arms. They were "Girl you can…

"I was such a fan of the band," says parody kingpin "Weird Al" Yankovic about Nirvana. "I heard Nevermind and I thought, Oh this is…