(This is the fifth and final installment of marathonpacks’ Top 50 of the 90s list. To see #50-41, click here. To see #40-31, click here. To see #30-21, click here. To see #20-11, click here.)

10. A Tribe Called Quest-Midnight Marauders (Jive, 1993)

A whittled-down version of The Low-End Theory, Midnight Marauders is, aside from the obvious [...]

(This is the third installment of marathonpacks’ Top 50 of the 90s list. To see #50-41, click here. To see #40-31, click here. The fourth installment, #20-11, will be posted Wednesday.)

30. PJ Harvey-To Bring You My Love (Island, 1995)
The slowly building, primordial guitars of opening track “To Bring You My Love” provide the perfect initiation [...]

I’m posting this list in the interest of providing visitors an idea of what I’d consider my “canon”–for the last five years, at least. Any music aficionado would agree that a list like this actually goes together pretty quickly, by sorting one’s iTunes by year and taking a glance at the CD rack. My main [...]

Ween managed to massively disappoint me and several of my friends last year (the first such disappointment since 12 Golden Country Greats) by cancelling the remainder of their fall tour (including a stop in Bloomington), due to a crucial band member (read: Gene) falling ill. A Ween concert, for the uninitiated, is a 3-plus-hour non-stop [...]