The 00s

R&B and hip-hop continued to dominate popular music as the 2000s began.
Underground musical scenes exploded with the emergence of free, easy music distribution (mainly through the internet). Electro and indie rock began to have more of an impact on the mainstream in the late 2000s.
Portable music devices and online downloads changed the way music was consumed.

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List of albums to be released in September

The new college semester is quickly approaching and new albums are coming out!
What are you expecting this month?

Artist | Album

Aqua - Megalomania
Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
Primus - Green Naugahyde
Anthrax - Worship Music
The Kooks - Junk Of The Heart
Das Racist - Relax
Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
The Devil Wears Prada - Dead Throne
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
The Pack A.D. - Unpersons
We Came As Romans - Understanding What We've Grown to Be
Nick Lowe - The Old Magic
Bush - The Sea of Memories
Thrice - Major/Minor
Opeth - Heritage
Demi Lovato - Unbroken
Tori Amos - Night of Hunters
Kalafina - After Eden
Dead by April - Incomparable
Björk - Biophilia
Steve Hackett - Beyond The Shrouded Horizon
Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
Mastodon - The Hunter
Blink-182 - Neighborhoods
Machine Head - Unto the Locust
Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot III
J. Cole - Cole World: The Sideline Story
Jim Cuddy - Skyscraper Soul
Switchfoot - Vice Verses
Wilco - The Whole Love
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The 90s

The 1990s were one of the most diverse, fractured and explosive musical decades since the 60's.

Things started off strong for hair metal, but it gradually lost audience to a different brand of loud, aggressive, but introspectively emotional music that would be labeled "alternative". The Grunge movement and the Seattle scene dominated both music and fashion at the dawn of the 90's. Partly as a reaction to grunge, British rock enjoyed a bracing revival.

Kurt Cobain playing guitar
Rave and electronic beats would nudge their way into the mainstream. 90's pop music would see a radical transformation of its own, due to the emergence of teen idols and boys/girls bands.

By the end of the decade, rap music and hip hop culture would achieve an almost total dominance over the record industry.



This list was REALLY difficult to make... I'm considering editing this post later and making a top 20. :P
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