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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.
The Kinks were a great, somewhat unheralded band in the mid-1960s. After mass popularity hit, they hit the skids. What year is it (#527)
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.
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.
Full album by the relatively obscure soul group.
The late David Thomas on the show Transmission.
A live album of early versions of many of the songs that would end up on 2007's Person Pitch.
Four and half hours of unedited tapes from the former Beatle's infamous interview with Rolling Stone.
Full album by the late jazz-funk musician.