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Hey, hey, it's The Monkees (Photos)
Given the force with which The Beatles exploded in America, it was fairly inevitable that a flurry of entrepreneurs would attempt to replicate the success of the Fab Four. Starting in 1964, the...
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20 years after 'Girlfriend,' Matthew Sweet provides a 'Modern' take on power...
20 years ago this month, Matthew Sweet released his third album, Girlfriend, an instant classic that not only launched Sweet into mainstream success but which helped revitalize power pop, a genre that...
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The Cyberpunk And The Godfather: Pete Townshend's lost sci-fi rock opera
Following the stratospheric success of "Tommy," the Who's 1969 rock opera that catapulted them into superstardom, Pete Townshend embarked upon an audacious and ambitious project called Lifehouse....
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Review: George Harrison – Early Takes Volume 1 (2012)
In 1999, George Harrison invited Billboard’s late editor-in-chief Timothy White to F.P.S.H.O.T. (Friar Park Studio, Henley-on-Thames), to preview recordings of unreleased songs from a series of DAT...
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The Everyday Story of XTC
The true success stories of contemporary music are attributable not only to musical talent but to business savvy and a substantial amount of good luck. Numerous factors come into play when gauging the...
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Michael Nesmith reunites with the Monkees for U.S. tour in November
The three surviving members of The Monkees, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork, are planning to reunite for a 12-show tour of the United States this November, according to Nesmith's...
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Review: Bob Dylan - Tempest (2012) (Photos)
"Bring down my fiddle, tune up my strings," croaks Bob Dylan on "Early Roman Kings" from Tempest, his 35th album in 50 years, which finds him, much like Nero, providing a soundtrack to bleak and...
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Book review: "Mick Jagger" by Philip Norman
Perhaps the most shocking revelation in Philip Norman's new unauthorized biography of the Rolling Stones' frontman, Mick Jagger (Harper Collins, 640 pages) is that Jagger isn't a very interesting...
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David Bowie announces first album in 10 years, video for new single (Photos)
David Bowie made a surprise announcement on his 66th birthday that March would see the release of The Next Day, his first album of original music since 2003's Reality. Produced by Tony Visconti (one...
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Stephen Stills to release career-spanning boxset
On March 26, Rhino Records plans to release Carry On, a four-disc anthology compiling classic and rare material by legendary songwriter and guitarist Stephen Stills. The collection was produced by...
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Book review: "Starting Over" by Ken Sharp
I've read lots of books about John Lennon. Heck, I've read lots of books about John Lennon in 1980. (The most tawdry of which is Frederic Seaman's The Last Days of John Lennon: A...
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Paul McCartney to release "New" album in October
New, Paul McCartney's first album of original compositions since 2007's Memory Almost Full and sixteenth solo album overall will be released in America on October 15th, it has been revealed. In...
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Riot Fest Chicago weekend recap: purists need not apply (Photos)
"There is a perverse pleasure in being disliked, I've found." So said Ben Weasel, sole original member of Screeching Weasel during his band's set on the opening day of Chicago's Riot Fest...
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Arthur Alexander: Muscle Shoals' soldier of love
The history of popular music is filled with what are sometimes unkindly referred to as "footnotes" - artists that, because of bad business decisions, bad timing, or just bad luck, never got the...
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