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Gravest Gravy puts Lux and Ivy in context.
Grouper plays the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, DC.
“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.
In his new memoir, the Black Flag frontman writes about the school that shaped him.
“I gargle with razor blades and scream into my pillow every night.”
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.”
An excellent and slightly psychedelic take on Alex North's theme for the 1966 film.
A feature length archival tape collage documentary about The Smashing Pumpkins by Nicky Otis Smith.
The full unedited tape from the intimate July 3, 1975 performance where Dylan debuted "Abandoned Love."
The singer-songwriter performs "Save Me" on The Tonight Show in this early 2000 performance.
The living legend talks about peers of The Beatles and more in this rare interview.
The band play "Go with the Flow" on this May 22, 2003 performance.
The singer-songwriter and Sleater-Kinney guitarist talk about some of their favorite records at KROQ headquarters.
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.