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Bob Marley & The Wailers

Reggae - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 1 Jan 2002

The classic Marley album, the one that any fair-weather reggae fan owns, Legend contains 14 of his greatest songs, running the gamut from "I Shot the ...

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Grace Jones

Disco - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 1 May 1981

By all means a phenomenal pop album that hit number nine on the black albums chart and crossed over to penetrate the pop charts at number 32, Nightclu ...

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Bob Marley & The Wailers

Reggae - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 1 Jan 1978

The second half of the 1970s was a prolific era for Bob Marley, at the peak of his glory days, during which he was releasing an album a year. After Ra ...

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Bon Jovi

Rock - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 18 Aug 1986

Slippery When Wet wasn't just a breakthrough album for Bon Jovi; it was a breakthrough for hair metal in general, marking the point where the genre of ...

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Tom Waits

Pop - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 1 Aug 1985

With its jarring rhythms and unusual instrumentation -- marimba, accordion, various percussion -- as well as its frequently surreal lyrics, Rain Dogs ...

The Doobie Brothers

Rock - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 1 Oct 2021

Out on the road in the 2020s, the Doobie Brothers feature Michael McDonald, but when it comes time for the group to cut a record, the band whittles do ...

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Woodkid

Alternative & Indie - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 18 Mar 2013

It would be an understatement to say that Yoann Lemoine's latest album was as eagerly-awaited as the name of the new Pope... And so here is Golden Age ...

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Bon Jovi

Rock - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 9 Nov 2010

It’s been a long 16 years since Bon Jovi was last compiled, when Cross Road arrived for the holiday season of 1994, two years after Keep the Faith cap ...

Traffic

Rock - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 1 Jul 1970

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The Cranberries

Rock - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 1 Jan 2002

For the Cranberries, assembling a best-of covering the first decade of their career means compiling their singles in chronological order, which turns ...

Bob Marley & The Wailers

Reggae - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 10 Jun 1980

Uprising would be the final studio album featuring Bob Marley & the Wailers to be released during Marley's lifetime. Prophetically, it also contains s ...

The Killers

Alternative & Indie - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 16 Jun 2021

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Remi Wolf

Pop - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 15 Oct 2021

"Wolf’s brand of humor is just as tapped into current culture as someone like Lil Nas X’s, if not a little more crude and surreal. Wolf has most of th ...

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The Killers

Rock - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 7 Jun 2004

There are so many garage rock/dance-rock tunes perfectly stylized and glamorous for the pop kids in the city and in the suburbs of new-millennium Amer ...

Betty Davis

R&B - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 1 Jan 1975

Funk diva Betty Davis was supposed to break big upon the release of her third album, Nasty Gal. After all, her Just Sunshine Records contract had been ...

Fall Out Boy

Alternative & Indie - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 20 Jan 2015

Returning to full-time status after the resurrection of 2013's Save Rock & Roll, Fall Out Boy quickly bashed out American Beauty/American Psycho, thei ...

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Woodkid

Alternative & Indie - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 25 Sep 2020

Fans of Woodkid have awaited a new album for seven years, but the man is in no rush. After the success of his first LP The Golden Age, Woodkid qu ...

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Sum 41

Rock - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 1 Jan 2001

It would be a mistake to view Sum 41 as just another second-rate band cashing in on the early-'00s punk-pop boom, even if it did recruit Jerry Finn to ...

The Killers

Alternative & Indie - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 21 Aug 2020

Arriving on the heels of an uneven decade -- when a pair of high-charting releases failed to match the sales of their early albums and their founding ...

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The Killers

Alternative & Indie - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 21 Aug 2020

The Killers have never been a band to do things by half, going all the way back to the arch '80s dancefloor drama of their 2004 debut Hot Fuss. Since ...

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The Killers

Alternative & Indie - Released by Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music) on 13 Aug 2021

Less than a year after the release of their critically acclaimed sixth album Imploding the Mirage, the Killers returned with the melancholic Pressure ...

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