Jamiroquai’s sophomore album, released in 1994, two years after their UK-chart topping debut Emergency on Planet Earth and two years before their American breakout release Traveling Without Moving. Tracks from Space Cowboy have been sampled by Missy Elliot and Tupac Shakur and used in the video game. Despite the party-friendly sonic veneer, there is lyrical […]

Welcome to Billy Joel’s magnum opus, The Stranger. Recorded in 1977 in New York City and produced by legendary producer Phil Ramone (Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Elton John, Bono, The Band, Madonna, John Coltrane, Pavarotti, Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Paul Simon, the list goes on), this was Joel’s breakthrough album, and it catapulted his career […]

Welcome to Wildflowers, the late great Tom Petty’s second solo record. Released in 1994, It was a rough time for Petty. At age 44, he was on the verge of divorce with the mother of his two daughters, and he was in the clutches of a hardcore heroin addiction. The intensity and desperation come through […]