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Top Decade: The 60s

By Julie Miller • Sep 28, 2015

We hear you: it can be heard to narrow 59 years of music down to just one.

Sleepy Hollow’s Greatest Year(s) in Music: 1997

By Julie Miller • Sep 27, 2015

Julian Booker continues Sleepy Hollow‘s profiles of potential Greatest Years in Music with a look at 1997.

Robert Drake’s Land of The Lost: The Greatest Year(s) of the 80s

By Bruce Warren • Sep 25, 2015

What were the greatest years in music from the 80s? WXPN’s Robert Drake asked the Land of The Lost listeners…

2010: “The Suburbs,” Janelle Monae, Ray LaMontagne

By Julie Miller • Sep 22, 2015

It was the year indie rock disrupted the Grammy Awards (and Twitter).

2001: Alicia Keys, John Mayer, Daft Punk

By Julie Miller • Sep 18, 2015

The turn of the century gave us a new group of musicians to love.

Slacker presents the Greatest Year In Music Radio station

By Bruce Warren • Sep 17, 2015

We’ve teamed up with Slacker Radio to build a Greatest Year In Music radio station.

1998: Neutral Milk Hotel, David Gray, Lauryn Hill

By Julie Miller • Sep 17, 2015

1998 boasts essential XPN albums, a hip hop classic and a cult favorite.

1980: The Buggles, Pretenders, Talking Heads

By Julie Miller • Sep 16, 2015

1980 ushers in a new era of music and popular culture.

1974: Joni Mitchell, Carl Douglas, Dolly Parton

By Julie Miller • Sep 16, 2015

Do stellar albums and one-hit wonders make 1974 the Greatest Year in Music?

1956: Showtunes, Calypso, and Jazz

By Julie Miller • Sep 15, 2015

Harry Belafonte hits #1, Elvis debuts and Bing swings with Satchmo.

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