There's no denying it. Rock is having a long-overdue new moment. It's the moment we've been craving since Napster and music-stealing just about bankrupted the band biz in '02 . To be clear, the rock resurgence is not happening because the genre changed, but because fans are finally digging deeper again. Between this year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame buzz , a wave of anniversary reissues , and TikTok resurrecting forgotten deep cuts like they’re brand-new releases, listeners are going back into the vault.

Pull out the vinyl and weird import pressings from the ’90s and 2000s and you’re reminded of something playlists will never understand: rock albums used to stash entire secret worlds between the seams . These were not tossed-off experiments or deluxe-edition padding ( Taylor in

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