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Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger doesn’t feel like a reunion; it’s closer to a restoration.
The Smashing Pumpkins rock the CFG Arena in Baltimore.
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.
Some music is aimed at readers.
Her devastated and victorious new album follows the suicide of her mother Naomi.
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.
A collaboration from the band's 2026 EP Addendum.
The blue eyed soul singer performs at the Memorial Auditorium on November 8, 1974.
The esteemed Groop play songs from their first two albums at Live Groovy Times Mechtem in this September 5, 1992 performance.
A 4-track cassette tape collage by the multimedia artist available on YouTube for the first time.
The Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age frontman talks about desert rock and learning how to play guitar on your own.
The iconic singer-songwriter performs solo work and Fleetwood Mac hits in this fall 2001 show at the Teco Arena in Naples, FL.
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."