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“1979” and “The Middle,” two remarkably similar epochal music videos released half a decade apart.
The Doobie Brothers? That “yacht rock” period was bleak.
The absence of soul, emotion, and eros in contemporary pop music.
The visions in my eyes.
The most significant asset that Billy Idol Should Be Dead has is in its title, which is itself a half-hearted dark joke.
Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs That's the Weight of the World) is light on biographical material, but substantial as a work of music criticism.
I don’t understand Bob Dylan’s true believers, but won’t complain too much.
Netflix’s Red Hot Chili Peppers documentary is less interested in the band’s highpoints as it is their musical transformation.
And the years it's endured.
The United Kingdom barring him from performing is indefensible.
A 10-year amplified detour from classical composition.
Brandi Carlile opens The Human Tour in Philadelphia this week.
Dolly Parton's departures and returns.
Defining the most reprehensible period of rock history.
A precursor to something yet to happen.
After the hippies and before the punks, DC's madman helped spearhead rock's degenerate era.
The lyrical evolution from jazz code words to defiant anthems.
Foreign Tongues is one of their greatest albums.
Why Mick Taylor left the “greatest job in rock music.”
Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess is as much about the Jewish experience of the composer as the Afro-American experience it’s meant to depict.
Plus he wrote a song in the voice of a bowling ball.
Author of Recording The Beatles talks vintage synthesizers, mixing desks, and the equipment that The Beatles used throughout their career.
The band play an afternoon set for a bunch of high school students three years before their breakthrough hit Dookie.
The bandmates talk about Skylarking, not touring, working with Todd Rundgren, and more in this June 1987 interview.
The songwriter talks about her work and the burdens of talent and success.
The first 40 minutes of the spin-off channel, including videos by Beck, Iggy Pop, Prince, PJ Harvey, and more.
Newly surfaced footage of the band in Japan in early 1992 with friends Shonen Knife.
The band's 23 minute audition for the record label on January 1, 1962 (they were rejected in favor of Brian Poole and the Tremeloes).
The legendary musician plays originals and covers for 25 minutes in his backyard on August 30, 1974.
The frontman of The Cure talks about touring less, the inspiration behind "Lovesong," and more in this archival interview.