Bruce Warren
Bruce Warren is assistant general manager for programming of WXPN in Philadelphia. Besides serving as executive producer of World Café, Warren also contributes to Paste magazine and writes for two blogs: Some Velvet Blog and WXPN's All About The Music Blog.
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At the close of every year, there's always this question: "What records from this year, that we're raving about now, will we actually be listening to in 20 years?" Turns out, 2002 was a strong one.
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Two decades ago at this time, we were looking back on a year punctuated with big pop hits and a ton of breakouts throughout rock, indie-rock, hip-hop and alternative music.
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The year saw seminal releases from Radiohead, Outkast and Steely Dan, Outkast, D'Angelo and Coldplay.
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The last year of the 1990s may have carried the semi-imposing threat of the Y2K millennium bug, but it also managed to deliver some excellent music.
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In 1998, we saw the release of Air's Moon Safari, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel, Lauryn Hill's legendary Miseducation, Elliott Smith's XO and many more. Let's take a look back.
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While 1997 was a breakout year for boy bands, the pop landscape was marked by a handful of influential hip-hop, R&B and dance music releases.
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It turned out to be one of the best years for music of the entire decade, with releases that remain indelible and influential.
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It was the year that music fans saw "grunge" going out of style, with the mainstream steadily leaning more into pop, hip-hop and alternative.
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Pop punk, slacker rock, hip-hop, Brit pop, singers and songwriters: Musically, 1994 had it all.
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