Travel with us on a musical journey through the the five boroughs and out to Long Island — as we chronicle our top 20 NYC albums. Our trip is inspired by this Village Voice article about the 50 Most NYC Albums Ever. Meet our featured artists here.

Manhattan

• Like a Virgin: More Than Just Another Dance Album
• Innervisions and Urban Decline in 1970s NYC
• Double Fantasy
• Blakey and the Black Movement
• Parallel Lines and Blondie’s Capture of New York City
• West Side Story = Timeless
• The Strokes’ Is This It?
• The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
• Bridge Over Troubled Water

Queens

• Get Rich Or Die Tryin
• Time Is Illmatic: Nas and the Broken Queensbridge Projects
• Bridge Over Troubled Water

The Bronx

• Views On the 6 Train: JLo’s Claim to Popstardom

Staten Island

• Rocking from the 50s…
• Gil Scott-Heron … to Blondie
• Billy Joel … to Public Enemy
• The 90s
• Moving to the Present Day … with Lana Del Rey
• Like a Virgin: More Than Just Another Dance Album
• Our Artists
• Innervisions and Urban Decline in 1970s NYC
• A Walk Through 52nd Street
• Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuttin Ta Fuck Wit




Brooklyn

• The Blueprint to the success of Jay Z’s career
• feel the city breakin’ and everybody shakin’
• I love it when you call me Big Poppa

Long Island

• Rocking from the 50s…
• Gil Scott-Heron … to Blondie
• Billy Joel … to Public Enemy
• The 90s
• Moving to the Present Day … with Lana Del Rey
• Like a Virgin: More Than Just Another Dance Album
• Our Artists
• Innervisions and Urban Decline in 1970s NYC
• A Walk Through 52nd Street
• Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuttin Ta Fuck Wit