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'Gathered From Coincidence' Plugs the Gap Between Merseybeat and Psychedelia
Three CDs of obscure, left field British folk-pop? Who needs that? The answer my friend, isn't blowing in the wind... the answer is you.
27 Jun 2018
Music
The Dig - "People Take Pictures of Each Other" (video) (premiere)
New York City's the Dig finds contemporary commentary in a Kinks classic, marrying it with images from the inimitable James Kerr Scorpion Dagger.
25 Sep 2017
Books
The Strength of "Anatomy of a Song" Is Found in Its diverse and Impressive Group of Interviewees
A self-described “oral history jukebox” gives behind-the-scenes details about popular songs and the historical circumstances that shaped pop culture as we know it.
08 Nov 2016
Music
Persona and Modern Music in 17 Songs
Persona -- the “I” of the song -- has evolved, broadened, and expanded to more fully represent a diversity of experiences as well as emotional, political, and cultural orientations.
John Amen
17 Apr 2016
Music
Counterbalance: The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
The 183rd most acclaimed album of all time is this week's Counterbalance, a pastoral 1968 masterpiece from the Kinks. God save little shops, china cups and virginity.
13 Feb 2015
Music
The Kinks: Muswell Hillbillies (Legacy Edition)
Like that lady who dreams of an Oklahoma where Shirley Jones and Gordon McCrea dwell, we can fantasize of an England where our neighbors lead rich and eccentric lives and invite us over for a friendly spot of tea.
28 Jan 2015
Music
The Kinks - "The Way Love Used to Be"
In a better world, "The Way Love Used to Be" would rank alongside "You Really Got Me", "Waterloo Sunset", and "Lola" as one of the Kinks' crowning achievements.
16 Jul 2014
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Woods Cover the Kinks' "God's Children" and Announce Live Dates
Woods perform a jangling and bright take on the classic Kink's tune, "God's Children".
10 Apr 2013
Music
Ten Songs From 1967 That Shaped Prog Rock
If 1967 characterizes a high point in rock music, it also initiated an explicit realignment of what was possible in the genre -- for better or worse.
20 Mar 2013
Music
Scorpions: Comeblack
Comeblack is guaranteed to leave fans of classic Scorpions scratching their heads, and those looking for an introduction to the group are advised to search elsewhere.
28 Mar 2012
Music
A Holiday Mix Tape, YouTube Style
Who hasn’t sat through those holiday parties with the cozy but yawn inducing classics of Burl Ives playing ad nauseam? I can help with that.
11 Dec 2011
Music
Old Country Comfort: How the British Might Save American Music (Again)
The British saved rock 'n' roll, reignited the blues, and may just make country music more American.
16 Oct 2011
Music
Ray Davies: See My Friends
Ray Davies' latest album is part tribute compilation, part vanity project. Mark my words, no one will be discussing this a year from now.
03 Apr 2011
Music
The Year In Music: June 2010
June 2010, the subject of our latest look at the year’s biggest events in music, was a month of successful releases and summer concerts.
03 Feb 2011
Music
TV Party Tonight: Interview with the 88
Frontman Keith Slettedahl recently called in from sunny California to talk with PopMatters about their new album, new priorities, and the band's continuing presence on silver and small screens.
Jane Jansen Seymour
17 Jan 2011
Music
Kelley Stoltz: To Dreamers
This batch of lo-fi home recordings is Stoltz's best effort to date because it perfectly fits the image his fans have had of him all along: A music lover holed up in his bedroom, knee-deep in a pile of instruments, smiling back at posters of Ray Davies and David Bowie.
17 Nov 2010
Music
Great Big Sea: Safe Upon the Shore
Great Big Sea is, at its heart, a party band, and there is pretty much one thing that its music is a soundtrack to in Canada: drinking your face off.
10 Oct 2010
Reviews
'You Really Got Me' Really, Really Got to Me
This utterly abominable hatchet job makes an unforgivable hash of one of the great bands of the British Invasion.
16 Jun 2010
Music
Celebrating the Allure of the Almighty Riff
The riff: is there any sweeter two-word phrase in the rock vocabulary? AJ Ramirez offers his examples of the best riffs via video.
27 Apr 2010
Music
See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me…Sell Me
Pete Townshend is selling (his soul), but who's buying? Not I.
23 May 2009
Music
Juno (Deluxe): Music From the Motion Picture
How to capitalize on one of the few successful movie soundtracks of the past decade? Re-release it a year later with some "b-sides!"
30 Nov 2008
Music
Day Two: From Jimi Hendrix to the Rolling Stones
The last quintet of choices show how the blues reclaimed its basis for a dozen hard rock hymns, argued for the importance of following one's singer/songwriter muse, and proved that not every significant sound coming out of the UK was Beatle-based.
25 Nov 2008
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God Save Self-Indulgence
Resist adult life with the Kinks' backward-looking Village Green Preservation Society.
Emily Thomas
15 Aug 2007
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