How 9/11 Changed Music – The Wall Street Journal

Sept. 11, 2001, fell on a Tuesday, so, as with every Tuesday between 1989 and 2015, it was the day new albums hit stores in the U.S. Big records often drop in early fall and 9/11 saw the release of “The Blueprint,” by Brooklyn-raised rapper Jay-Z, who had recently come into his own as one of the biggest hitmakers in hip-hop, and the vinyl edition of “Is This It,” an album by up-and-coming New York indie-rock band the Strokes, which was already making waves in the U.K.

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