A celebration of the most unfairly maligned musical technology since the electric guitar.

[xrr rating=1.75/5]In 2008, Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III topped the charts and sold a million copies in its first week. Two years later, while Wayne was serving a jail stint, his album I Am Not a Human Being was released, and, while it debuted at number two, it only sold 110,000 units, one tenth of its predecessor. In 2011 Tha …

Sky Blue Sky by Wilco (2007) Drugs help. When Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy went to rehab (no, no, no) in 2004, the band had just come off the masterful one-two punch of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) and A Ghost Is Born (2004), two of the most experimental, sophisticated albums of the decade. Then after he cleaned up, they produced Sky …

Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. It’s hard to believe five years have passed since the world unanimously decreed Lil Wayne to be the absolute best rap artist on the planet. A claim Wayne himself began circulating in 2004, three years later he wound up releasing 77 tracks in a 12 …