When a Concept Became a Problem: Reconsidering the Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’
Humdrum, high and low, the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sounds like a swirling, strident loss of pre-modern innocence.
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The 35 Best Album Re-Issues of 2021
The year gave us spectacular album re-issues spanning rock legends, foundational R&B/soul artists, classic pop, post-punk, alternative rock and so much more.
The Beatles: Get Back, The Long and Riveting Epic
What is revealed with The Beatles: Get Back is a set of cumulative portraits that shed light not only on John, Paul, George, and Ringo but on all of us.
The Effect of the Beatles’ White Album on 1988-1995’s US Alt-Rock Explosion
The Beatles’ White Album was the single biggest influence on US alternative rock as it burst into the mainstream in the late ’80s and early ’90s.
20 Beatles Buried Treasures
This is a Beatles list of the nearest things in the most overexposed catalog in popular music history to “deep tracks”.
The 10 Best John Lennon Solo Songs
The 10 Best Snippets from the Solo Sonic Psychology of John Winston Ono Lennon.
The Beatles’ ‘Help!’ Redefined How Personal Popular Music Could Be 55 Years Ago
Help! is the record on which the Beatles really started to investigate just how much they could get away with. The album was released 55 years ago this week, and it's the kick-off to our new "All Things Reconsidered" series.
Counterbalance 20: The Beatles – ‘Abbey Road’
The Beatles once again make their way onto the list with their 1969 tour de force Abbey Road. Halfway through, Klinger and Mendelsohn realize they can steal but they cannot rob.
Weird and Sweet, Riotous and Hushed: The Beatles’ ‘The White Album’
The Beatles' 'The White Album' is a piece of art that demonstrates how much you can stretch, how far you can bend, how big you really are. The album is deeply weird. It has mass. It has its own weather.
The Beatles ‘Let It Be’: So Good They Ruined It for Everyone
The Lumineers' Wesley Schultz recalls the Beatles' influence on his band, perhaps most of all the Let It Be album, released 50 years ago this month and the subject of a forthcoming documentary.
Counterbalance No. 14: The Beatles – ‘The Beatles’ a.k.a. ‘The White Album’
The Beatles' 1968 self-titled double LP has been referenced by everyone from Joan Didion to Charles Manson and analyzed literally backward and forward. Mendelsohn and Klinger, always smiling and arriving late for tea, discuss the Number 14 album on the Big List.