By the time Queen released The Miracle , many of their hard-rocking contemporaries had tried to market themselves to the hair metal crowd. ...

Ever since Neil Young got divorced, his albums have increasingly referenced his own life, more directly and blatantly than they did for the...

Back in 1965 somehow an 18-year-old kid got the attention of Shel Talmy, the expatriate American producer who’d already started making hits...

Only two installments into the Dead’s “From The Vault” series came another release program that actually became an ongoing series that last...

By now the Beach Boys were in direct competition with the Beatles, and Brian Wilson was determined to make albums of their quality, even in...

By now it should have been clear that Paul Weller wasn’t kidding about this whole Style Council thing. Two albums, as well as several singl...

We can’t think of anyone whose first nine albums included three collections of singles and B-sides, but that’s just one thing that makes Mo...

Ben Folds is a strangely divisive performer—it seems people either love or hate him. His particular brand of geek-rock can be grating to nay...

Somehow Tom Verlaine still had a record deal, so right on schedule he went back in the studio with his usual sidemen and recorded another a...

Aerosmith was on a roll as well as a winning streak, so they holed up in a converted convent and, by their own admission, spent as much tim...

Even if the Kinks had become something of an oldies act, their following was still fervent. So when they finished their most recent tour, t...

Given his higher profile from the Rolling Thunder Revue and the success of his Cardiff Rose album, one might think Roger McGuinn would bu...

The British blues scene of the early ‘60s was rife with important individuals who may not have become household names, like Alexis Korner, ...

After a quarter-century of people possibly knowing his name and what he did for a living, Daniel Lanois decided to make himself the subject...

Another memoir composed on his phone coincided with a fresh batch of Robyn Hitchcock songs. The events of Stranded In The Future cover his...

The ‘80s saw a lot of surprising comebacks, and one of the biggest was that of Yes. Having imploded and scattered following the poor recept...

It’s tough enough when one of your siblings is famous, and worse when you’re trying to make a name for yourself. Michael Penn has never (to...