reDiscover The Beach Boys’ ‘Surfer Girl’
Ever since The Beach Boys had a Top 20 US hit with their second single, “Surfin’ Safari,” the group were under pressure to deliver. Their...
DJ Shadow’s ‘Endtroducing’ Explained
To listen to DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing is to hear sampling approached as a spiritual practice, an aural document of one man’s lifelong reverence for hip-hop...
‘Top Priority’: Why You Need To Hear This Rory Gallagher Album
It was Rory Gallagher’s then label, Chrysalis Records, who inadvertently named his tenth album. Top Priority, the brisk follow-up to 1978’s well-received Photo-Finish, arrived on...
‘Laughing Stock’: The Timeless Appeal Of Talk Talk’s Final Album
Guided by their single-minded frontman, Mark Hollis, Talk Talk recorded a trio of career-defining albums during the late 80s and early 90s. The band hit...
‘That’s Where It’s At’: The Last Hit Of Sam Cooke’s Life
‘Sam Cooke’s switch from gospel to secular music yielded a remarkable 20 songs that made the R&B Top 10, six of them No. 1s, in...
George Harrison – The First Beatle On American Soil
In the summer of 1963, the Beatles had some time off, and while the other three members of the band went on holiday to Europe,...