May 2024

Fronted by evocative cover art that depicts Gang Starr’s MC Guru and DJ Premier plotting in a clandestine meeting room decorated with a portrait of...

Any musical composition can be reconceptualized – Franz Liszt arranged his own works for piano and transformed Bach’s organ music – and the best music...

There is an authenticity to Chris Stapleton’s Traveller that helps make it one of the great debut solo albums in modern country music. Stapleton put...

According to Bob Dylan, “And I know no one can sing the blues, like Blind Willie McTell.” Which may be true, but what he should...

The four Beatles all loved Motown, and would search the racks of Brian Epstein’s NEMS record shop for hidden treasures from the Detroit label, hoping...

Six days before Christmas 1973, ABBA’s Agnetha, Björn, Benny, and Anni-Frid were in Metronome Studio in Stockholm, Sweden. They were there to record a song...