One of our favorite long-held Riot Fest traditions each year features a handful of beloved artists performing their most iconic and seminal albums front-to-back—often in celebration…Read more
Tag: Full Albums
For the series premiere of 'The Greatest', Annie Fell explores the darkness—and the light—surrounding Cat Power's 1998 masterpiece, 'Moon Pix'.Read more
“The Plan” keeps coming up again. It comes up on your good playlists, usually first. It’s always in your rankings of “Best Damn Kickoff Tracks…Read more
This past March marked twenty years of one of the biggest releases in the history of ska: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ Let’s Face It. Set…Read more
I only knew of The Lawrence Arms as a symbol before I knew they were a band.In high school, a lot of the punks I…Read more
As most rock nerds know by now, Big Star were the quintessential "should have been huge" band. In their short time as a group, the…Read more
They never had any massive hits like Nirvana or Pearl Jam; they never so defined a sub-genre, nor generated as many direct copycats, as My…Read more
In the summer of 1992, I was 15 years old and struggling desperately to find out everything I could about underground music–something I’d only recently…Read more
An itemized inventory of Wu-Tang Clan’s Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers): nine cigarette cherries glowing beneath the caged walkways of Staten Island’s Stapleton Projects; nine…Read more
Last month, we unveiled eight of the ten full-album performances to happen at Riot Fest 2017. Now we reveal the final two albums; Danzig III:…Read more