V/A "The Matrix (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)" (25th Anniversary) 2025-08-01-Fresh Songs that last tell stories

Songs that last tell stories

Hip-hop lifted the New Orleans duo of cousins—Scott Arcenaux

On the rarest of occasions

socializing and solitude

Quavo & Offset and Wyclef Jean

V/A "The Matrix (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)" (25th Anniversary) 2025-08-01-Fresh Songs that last tell storiesEvery decade or so a science fiction film comes along that captures the Zeitgeist and simultaneously casts a searchlight into the murk of whats to come. Such a film was The Matrix. Released in 1999 to a public already grappling with huge technological change and subject to Y2K hysteria whipped up by the media, The Matrix wove such au courant tropes as Japanese anim, Hong Kong martial arts films, cyperpunk sci fi, and hacker hero worship into a tale of