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Aaliyah's second album, One In A Million, reached its 30th anniversary earlier this month, marking three decades since the record transformed her artistic direction and helped define a new generation of R&B production.

Eels' 1996 debut established Mark Oliver Everett's band with a distinctive blend of pop, melancholy and outsider storytelling.

Thirty years after its release, Sublime's self titled third album remains one of alternative music's most enduring records, transforming a California underground band into a global phenomenon only after the death of frontman Bradley Nowell.

Thirty years on from its original release, George Michael's Older is being reassessed as a pivotal mid-career statement, arriving after a prolonged legal dispute and delivering a run of UK chart records that reshaped his commercial standing in the 1990s.

The Smashing Pumpkins will mark 35 years of their debut album Gish with new vinyl editions, revisiting the record that introduced The Smashing Pumpkins as a formidable force in alternative rock.

Three decades on, 2Pac's landmark double album All Eyez On Me remains one of the most consequential releases in hip-hop history, capturing an artist at the centre of fame, controversy and cultural change.

The death of Greg Brown, founding guitarist and key songwriter of Cake, removes one of the most distinctive creative voices to emerge from American alternative rock in the 1990s, with Brown's work continuing to resonate deeply across generations of musicians and listeners.