Hall of Fame

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Slipknot’s Iowa is a masterpiece of pain

A look back at the metal group’s anguished album at 20, and its heavy emotional resonance.

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How The Shins’ Oh, Inverted World captured a timeless simplicity

The cult favorite turned indie smash turns 20; we take a look back.

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Neurosis’ Through Silver in Blood pushed metal to its limits

The band’s 1996 album is maybe the heaviest album ever recorded.

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Spoon redefined themselves on Girls Can Tell

How the Austin group made their best album after their career stalled

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Kid Cudi’s Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager captured a harsh comedown

Looking back at 10 years of an ambitious, introspective concept album.

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‘The River’ at 40: Bruce Springsteen vs. Real Life

A look back at the double-album that took a hard look at the dreary reality of adulthood.

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Talking Heads’ Remain in Light is a work of ecstatic maximalism

As the new wave icons’ fourth album turns 40, we take a look back at its strange magic.

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Rancid’s ‘…And Out Come The Wolves’ is punk rock’s saddest masterpiece

A look back at the Bay Area punk band’s greatest moment 25 years later.

Camera and crystal ball: Public Enemy’s Fear of a Black Planet at 30

A look back at a crucial political hip-hop document at 30.

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Deftones traded aggression for mystique on White Pony

How the Sacramento group escaped “nu metal” and carved their own strange path.

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40 Years of ‘Melt’: Peter Gabriel’s catalytic third album

Gabriel’s third album was infused with an overarching feeling of panic and menace.

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Explosions in the Sky’s ‘The Earth is Not A Cold Dead Place’ built a place of refuge

A titanic entry in the post-rock canon that feels all too appropriate right now.

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Exploring the Universe of Flying Lotus’ ‘Cosmogramma’

The moment where Steven Ellison launched himself into the cosmos.

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John Zorn’s Naked City was a gleeful noise-jazz science experiment

The jazzgrind classic is still fun, hilarious and wild after 30 years.

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Morphine’s The Night is a ghostly album nearly lost to time

The Boston trio’s fifth and final album could have been a game changer; now, it barely exists.