Critical Mass: A Catholic Education at 30
Talking Teenage Fanclub with Matador Records co-founder Gerard Cosloy about the Scottish pop greats’ debut album
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1990
“Over My Hot Head, The Wire Was Sparking”: The Breeders’ Pod At 30
Many great albums are defined by a singular theme or context, but finally unleashed, Kim Deal feels everything at once on her quintessential band’s debut LP
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Vows Are Spoken To Be Broken: Thirty Years Of Depeche Mode’s ‘Violator’
Looking back at when the world’s biggest synth band plugged in and played the blues
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A Buyer’s Guide to The Black Crowes
Where to start and what to ditch if you’re fixing to dive into the Atlanta band’s catalogue
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Building Quirky Birdhouses: They Might Be Giants’ Flood at 30
Why we need the levity of John Flansburgh and John Linnell’s college radio classic now more than ever
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Flesh Cartoons: Robyn Hitchcock’s Eye at 30
In 1990, the chief Egyptian casts his vision towards further fancies
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Touch Me, I’m Sick: The Cramps’ Stay Sick! at 30
Basing themselves in L.A., 1990 saw the band usher in the last decade of the 20th century with a renewed vigor and purpose
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