A killer bass line fed through one of the fuzziest pedals ever invented. A heavy dose of wah-wah on a two-note guitar solo. A powerful organ blast. A video riffing…
Pink Floyd
The co-founder of Pink Floyd offers bombast and protest during Philadelphia tour’s opening night.
Australian pop-rocker Ivan Beecroft shares a wealth of similarities with many classic-rock artists. He comes from a working class background, suffered tragedy in his life — and has a sound…
The classic Bond songs, shaken, stirred, and disrupted.
Can a song change the world? Popular music has always been looked on as something of a disposable pleasure: reflective of its times, sure, but meant to be played among…
Superstars, secret stars, rising stars, and a ghost from the past hovering over it all.
Before this year closes, here are some more releases we should talk about…
Top Ten lists are inherently flawed in that they are based completely upon subjective opinion. So don’t start complaining that I didn’t mention your favorite album!
For Veterans Day, November 11, here are 11 great songs to help us remember and honor all those who have served in our military.
This week: Liz Phair before she sucked, Pet Shop Boys, Tom Petty and more.
In which we look at once common curiosities of pop culture that don’t exist anymore, be it because of changing tastes, the fragmentation of culture, or merely the fickle nature…
No list of the Seventies’ best albums is complete without Pink Floyd, right? Well, we got two of their albums here!
You can’t say these eight bands didn’t have their chance to do it one last time before the world came to an end.
There are a lot of great music autobiographies out there, but there are great ones still to be written. Chris Holmes counts down the Top 5.
Gasoline might have been in short supply in the ’70s, but mellow tunes were not.
A day late and more than a dollar short, here are my choices for the Top 10 Paul McCartney solo deep cuts.
An unlikely song hit #1 on the U.S. in 1962: “Sukiyaki” by Kyu Sakamoto. It’s the only song in Japanese to top the charts in America, and that’s especially surprising…
Doris Troy may have had only big hit, the 1963 classic “Just One Look,” but she had a long and successful career working with the biggest names in rock and roll.
Sometimes, an album has such a great title that you just have to buy it.
Grunge rock came out of the punk tradition, sidestepping the decade and a half of corporate rock that came in between punk’s prime of 1977 and grunge’s rise in 1991….
Pink Floyd‘s A Momentary Lapse of Reason, alas, was no Dark Side of the Moon. Criticized then as now for being transitional and samey, though, it was far from the…
The What-ing What Project? Never, perhaps, has a figure in rock music been simultaneously so famous and so … anonymous.