Of all the iconic groups to emerge from CBGBs, New York’s legendary dive bar and cradle of punk, Blondie were by far the most versatile. Whi...
Of all the iconic groups to emerge from CBGBs, New York’s legendary dive bar and cradle of punk, Blondie were by far the most versatile. Whi...
In the discography of any other pop band, a collection that offers “Nowhere Man,” “Drive My Car,” and “In My Life” would rank as a never-to-...
As the 9/11 anniversary approached, Chris Martin and his three pals unveiled their sophomore effort, penned (and designed) with a feeli...
On one level Clouds seems fairly unexceptional, another instance of the age-old tryst between singer and acoustic guitar. But in truth i...
A double album is all too often synonymous with self-indulgence or a lack of creative discipline. In the final few weeks of the ’70s The Cla...
PRINCE'S SECOND ALBUM WITH THE REVOLUTION SAW A SHIFT FROM THE COMMERCIAL SOUND OF 1984'S PURPLE RAIN AND INTO PSYCHEDELIC CLIMES TH...
Near the start of their career, with just a six-song EP of demos to their name, Fleet Foxes issued an almost apologetic note to listeners wh...
Το καλοκαίρι του 1966 ο Van Morrison είχε ερωτευτεί μια Αμερικανίδα, την Janet Planet . Οι δυο τους συνέχισαν τη σχέση τους και το 1967, ...
By 1974, it was clear to those around Neil Young (and to a deeply apprehensive Elliot Roberts in particular) that the 28-year-old Canadian w...
Few albums have contained with their grooves as huge an amount of energy, creativity and sheer songwriting exuberance as Songs In The Key Of...
Thriller is surrounded by a cloud of statistics—the biggest album in history, it sold more than 40 million copies on its first release; it ...
1983 began with the Police at AIR Studios in Montserrat working on what would be their fifth and final studio album, Synchronicity . An...
“Who’s N ext” should have been a paradigm, a watershed, a groundbreaking extravaganza bursting through the bounds of what rock could, and h...
On its 11th record, Fleetwood Mac crafted a bittersweet masterpiece fuelled by perhaps one of rock’s most infamous melodramas. Released in ...
Always ones for the big entrance, Emerson, Lake, And Palmer premiered their rocked-up version of Russian composer Modeste Mussorgsky's c...
W hile the American music scene of the 1960s certainly produced a broad range of seminal acts, there was always something about The Velvet U...
Updating the avid experimentalism of their debut album, 1966's Fresh Cream, by infusing it with the psychedelic tricks of the trade pre...
It was in November 1976, when the son of French film composer Maurice unveiled his third studio offering. While the likes of Tangerine Dream...
Even the most devoted fan would probably admit that Sir Elton John has spent the last 40 years failing to match up to the albums he released...
The impact of Dead Kennedys’ debut album stretches so far and wide it’s barely calculable. It contains testimonial quotes from cross- genera...