All hail Fleetwood Mac‘s Rumours, this 1977 paean to Love, American-style — or California-style, anyway. Memorably cinematic, it chronicled with a lush directness (quite literally, it turned out) the way…
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Thirty years in, no one would have been surprised if the Rolling Stones simply ground to a halt in the 1990s. Instead, they managed a small, very late career resurgence.
The very ubiquitousness of the Beatles sometimes makes for difficult wading when you’re trying to remember what made them great in the first place. Here are a handful of deeper cuts that we’re not sick of yet.
Often situated in a pillowy cloud of opaque neo-funk, saxophonist David Sanborn’s talents are understandably obscured. The arrangements on his records, like much of the smooth-jazz movement that he still…
Amidst all the talk of rock music’s Seminal Works, Forgotten Gems, and Timeless Standards, there remain a few things that should have been left unsung. And we don’t mean unsung in the good way.
The 1970s weren’t all shag carpeting and plaid pants. OK, they were. But not all of it sucked. Really.