January 2024

Marvin Gaye’s In Our Lifetime? was an album with a long and often unhappy history, and one which came to mark the end of his...

Only a handful of artists have the cultural magnetism that enables their work to impact our lives, even beyond their musical comfort zone. It was...

Here’s a story about perseverance, featuring a band who slowly but surely built an audience through much of the 1970s, and got their rewards. The...

The Rolling Stones No.2, the second album from the then young British R&B band, remains a special one for Mick Jagger and co because it...

Succession star Sarah Snook has revealed that she was once called a “nobody” by casting directors and that she was told to “lose weight” among...

The double-album Hooker ’N Heat, which was released on January 15, 1971, is a fascinating meeting of mentor and protégés. Canned Heat had long admired...