Features
Friday, November 11 2011
Why Not Pink Floyd?
Pink Floyd is perhaps the first truly underground band that cultivated a sound that was too remarkable to remain obscure. They willed themselves to be huge, and their influence is undiminished today.
Friday, November 11 2011
PopMatters Music for the Gifted (or, December 2011 Presents)
PopMatters has holiday music gift ideas for everyone you love now – and all whom you hope to love in the New Year.
Tuesday, August 2 2011
10 Albums That Supposedly Suck (But Don't)
Some of these are hopefully no-brainers, others may be head-scratchers. All of them are albums that deserve a fresh appraisal.
Monday, May 23 2011
The 25 Best Progressive Rock Songs of All Time
Put as simply -- and starkly -- as possible, many beautiful babies were thrown out with the bath water by hidebound critics who were content to sniffingly dismiss the more ambitious (pretentious!) works that certain bands were putting out as a matter of course in the early-to-mid-‘70s.
Tuesday, November 2 2010
A Very Irregular Head: The Life of Syd Barrett
Pink Floyd's ‘Interstellar Overdrive’ was a zeitgeist moment in the development of English pop music, the moment when pop liberated itself from its blues roots.
Reviews
Friday, December 16 2011
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon: Experience Edition
This new reissue won’t add much to your understanding of this legendary album, but that doesn’t make Dark Side of the Moon any less remarkable.
Wednesday, November 23 2011
Pink Floyd: Animals
It's 1977. You're young and pissed off. If you wanted noise and petulance, you had the Sex Pistols. But if you really wanted to rattle some cages, you had Animals.
Friday, December 7 2007
Pink Floyd: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Fitting tribute or bloated rip-off? Rattling early model Floyd or thrilling blueprint? Listen to mono or stereo? It's make your mind up time....
Friday, June 1 2007
fPink Floyd: Pink Floyd--Meddle: A Classic Album Under Review [DVD]
Without The Dark Side of the Moon there would be no Pink Floyd as we know them today. Without Meddle there would have been no Dark Side of the Moon .
Wednesday, August 4 2004
Pink Floyd: The Final Cut
Pink Floyd's The Final Cut is one of the most pointed and direct anti-war albums ever produced, and for all its faults and failures, its message is still as relevant and accessible today as it was those 20-odd years ago.
Blogs
Tuesday, November 8 2011
CONTEST: Win Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here' OUT TODAY!
A teaser of the expanded Wish You Were Here sets and two chances to win!
Friday, February 18 2011
Counterbalance No. 21: Pink Floyd’s 'Dark Side of the Moon'
Now for the 800-pound gorilla in the room -- Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. It’s No. 21 on The Big List. Counterbalance explores the depths of the human condition on a trip that's out of this world.
Wednesday, July 29 2009
Musical Genius & Its Discontents (ii): British-style
Part 2 of our video venture through lost musical geniuses discovers an unhappier tradition in The UK, where comebacks are not de rigeur! Exemplars include Joe Meek, Brian Jones, Syd Barrett, and Ian Curtis.
News
Thursday, November 11 2010
Roger Waters talks about taking another crack at 'The Wall'
In its day, "The Wall," which came out in 1979, was a colossal commercial success, especially considering it's a mostly autobiographical work about separation, pain and suffering, beginning with the death of Waters' father in World War II when Waters was 5 months old.
Monday, June 11 2007
Why Pink Floyd's 1973 masterpiece continues to matter
Last week offered reason to revisit Sgt. Pepper, it having just turned 40. This week brings reason to revisit another conceptual rock monument: The Dark…
