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A countdown of the ten most bizarre hidden album tracks released from mainstream pop and rock bands.
It’s 11:00 AM, do you know where your Friday Five is?
Remember the band Player? Sure you do…and even if you think you don’t, it’ll only take three words to remind you who they are: “Baby Come Back.” That’s not by…
Does Taylor Swift’s song have the same weight as Gloria Gaynor’s?
Just because a song gets stuck at #3 on the charts doesn’t mean it’s not an all-time great.
Rob Smith meditates on memory, music, and the Beatles in “The Vinyl Diaries.”
Even in an era of dance crazes not every one took off
Dust of those post-holiday blues with this week’s Friday Five!
“I’ll finish you all now! You’ll pay!” So said Paul McCartney to Ringo Starr when Ringo tried to convince Paul to hold his solo album release so it wouldn’t conflict…
The Blue Sky Riders might be the best band you’ve never heard of (featuring a few people you might be familiar with).
Bay Area songstress Ash Reiter delivers a second full-length album that’s concise, full of exciting modern pop productions, and packed with hit-worthy tracks.
Box sets! Limited editions! Reunions! Oh my!
In 2003, Eric Boehlert (now at Media Matters) wrote an essay for Salon called “The Greatest Week in Rock History” in which he proposed that the week of December 20, 1969,…
Certain albums in this series present a particular challenge, as we’ve noted before: What can one say that’s fresh about some of the most famous albums ever recorded? For that,…
“We made it up as we went along,” McCartney said. Sadly, it often shows.
The Beatles, better known as The White Album, hit #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the week of December 28, 1968, and spent nine weeks at #1 in…
It’s Friday, time to relax, hit shuffle and dig into this week’s Friday Five.
Slightly Stoopid’s DeLa takes time from promoting the band’s new album to give us a soulful list of Desert Island Discs.
Singer, songwriter and musician Tomas Doncker, whose latest project is an album and stage show called “The Power Of The Trinity,” stopped by and dropped off his Desert Island Discs.
As if there wasn’t enough evidence of the vast gulf between record industry marketing practices of the 1960s and today, consider this: less than six months after releasing an album…
In 1965 the Righteous Brothers had a year that has seldom been equaled in the annals of popular music.
If you like music and you like to write, challenge yourself with this task: Say something fresh about Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. When the album’s 40th anniversary was celebrated…
A day late and more than a dollar short, here are my choices for the Top 10 Paul McCartney solo deep cuts.
One of the many fascinating subtexts in the current season of Mad Men involves the seismic shift in youth culture that began in 1966, the year in which the season…