Highlights for Feb. 13-19 include Taylor Dayne, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Mary Bue, Benjamin Booker and Cymande.

Before guitar music succumbed to belching nu metal, rock and roll still thrived. This list focuses on this side of the Atlantic and five iconic post-grunge rock classics from 1995.

"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...