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Mister, I’m sticking with The Boss! What year is it? (#571)
The Cars represented a break from the hippies and heavy rock pervasive at the time.
Looking back at two standout 1985 songs.
Ask J.D. King for advice. What year is it (#557)?
One to One: John & Yoko is a fine archival documentary on the couple’s turbulent first 18 months in New York.
The Twilight Sad’s masterpiece reissued.
Investigating the roots of shoegaze in the 1960s.
Peter Gabriel's breakthrough and the real meaning of "Solsbury Hill."
What chances would Eric Satie have if he were around today as an unknown?
On Chris Barnes, death metal pioneer and noted "cookie-monster" vocalist.
Ron Howard's Beatles '64 documentary isn't revelatory, but it's enjoyable celebration of the greatest band of all time.
Skeptical curiosity about A Complete Unknown and revisiting Bob Dylan’s 1974 tour.
Die young and leave a pretty corpse.
The clairvoyance of a true poet.
Perhaps music is adaptive, its purpose soothing fussy babies (and their parents).
Radiohead meets Bill Evans and Thomas Merton.
Doechii is changing the game.
The ring is set: hip-hop’s current showdown.
The best of the worst songs for the season.
Interlopers and songbirds, rookies and hurtin' Albertans: they all helped make this a great year.
The greatest hits afterparty with Graham Nash, Quaaludes, and Polly.
Jazz funk album from Italy in the mid-1970s.
The jazz legend performs with Stan Getz, Wynton Kelly, Oscar Peterson, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb in this set recorded in Germany in 1960.
The jazz legend performs with Mike Stern, Marcus Miller, Al Foster, Bill Evans, and Mino Cinelu on Italian television in 1982.
Including "Looking Glass," "Funnels," and more.
The drummer for At the Drive-In and Sparta talks to Dean Delray about the difficulties of getting the band back together.
The Philadelphia soul legends perform their signature song on television in 1973.
German television documentary on the band made in the year 2000.
An obscure single from the late 1960s featuring Hazlewood and Ann-Margret on vocals.
The third single from the band's comeback album Instant Holograms on Metal Film, out everywhere this Friday.