Tapestry – Songwriting as Intimacy, Comfort and Quiet Revolution

Artist: Carole King · Year: 1971 · Label: Ode Records · Rolling Stone Rank: 25 /…

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – Pop Music Enters the Psychedelic Theater

Artist: The Beatles · Year: 1967 · Label: Parlophone · Rolling Stone Rank: 24 / 500…

London Calling – Punk Grows Up and Looks at the World

Artist: The Clash · Year: 1979 · Label: CBS / Epic · Rolling Stone Rank: 16…

What’s Going On – Soul Music as a Question to the World

Artist: Marvin Gaye · Year: 1971 · Label: Tamla / Motown · Rolling Stone Rank: 1…

Pet Sounds – When Pop Grew Up

Artist: The Beach Boys · Year: 1966 · Label: Capitol Records · Rolling Stone Rank: 2…

Blue – The Anatomy of a Broken Heart

Artist: Joni Mitchell · Year: 1971 · Label: Reprise Records · Rolling Stone Rank: 3 /…

Rumours – Beautiful Music Made from Broken Hearts

Artist: Fleetwood Mac · Year: 1977 · Label: Warner Bros. · Rolling Stone Rank: 7 /…

Songs in the Key of Life – When One Artist Tried to Contain the Universe

Artist: Stevie Wonder · Year: 1976 · Label: Tamla / Motown · Rolling Stone Rank: 4…

Purple Rain – Rock, Funk and the Making of a Myth

Artist: Prince · Year: 1984 · Label: Warner Bros. · Rolling Stone Rank: 8 / 500…

Blood on the Tracks – Love, Memory, and the Echo of Regret

Artist: Bob Dylan · Year: 1975 · Label: Columbia Records · Rolling Stone Rank: 9 /…

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill – Soul, Vulnerability and a New Blueprint for Hip-Hop

Artist: Lauryn Hill · Year: 1998 · Label: Ruffhouse / Columbia · Rolling Stone Rank: 10…

Revolver – Pop Music Discovers the Fourth Dimension

Artist: The Beatles · Year: 1966 · Label: Parlophone · Rolling Stone Rank: 11 / 500…

Thriller – The Album That Redefined Global Pop Stardom

Artist: Michael Jackson · Year: 1982 · Label: Epic Records · Rolling Stone Rank: 12 /…

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back – Hip-Hop as Sonic Uprising

Artist: Public Enemy · Year: 1988 · Label: Def Jam · Rolling Stone Rank: 15 /…

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Excess, Ego and the Sound of Implosion

Artist: Kanye West · Year: 2010 · Label: Roc-A-Fella / Def Jam · Rolling Stone Rank:…

To Pimp a Butterfly – A Jazz-Rap Epic About Survival and Self

Artist: Kendrick Lamar · Year: 2015 · Label: Top Dawg / Aftermath / Interscope · Rolling…

Kid A at 25 – How Radiohead Deleted Rock and Accidentally Invented the Future

By SlaveToMusic – December 2025 Gloucestershire, Winter 1999 Picture Thom Yorke walking alone in a muddy…

Great Songs #3 – Lenny: When Texas Thunder Whispered Its Heart

In the electric storm of the 1980s blues-rock revival, Stevie Ray Vaughan was a force of…

December Guitar Sessions – Four Sounds, One Story

In December we’re diving into a journey shaped by four different ways of touching the strings.…

When Rock Meets Jazz: Iconic Collaborations That Changed Music

Rock and jazz have always pretended to be distant cousins: one loud and electric, the other…

Larry Carlton: The Man Who Made the ES-335 Sing

Mr. 335 – The Architect of the Smoothest Guitar Sound in History On February 8, 1988,…