pop past
Songs of the Summers: The ’60s
As it turns out, America's infatuation with sometimes kooky summer tunes is an old one.
Bruce Cockburn’s 1968: Electrocution to Revolution
Being in the orbit of a group of eccentric artists helped to create a transformative year for Cockburn that would further his path toward becoming a world renowned solo artist.
What Is and What Will Always Be: A Fresh Look at Led Zeppelin’s Familiar Masterpieces
With the exception of the Beatles, no other band has loomed quite so large as Led Zeppelin, to the extent that we’ll never run out of things to say: good, bad and great.
This Is the Day: The The – ‘Soul Mining: 30th Anniversary Edition’
Thirty years later, Soul Mining remains The The's most vital work.
“Celebrating” Wilco’s A Ghost Is Born’s 10-Year Anniversary
Ten years after the release of A Ghost Is Born, the songs still just aren't there.
Cast Off the Ego Scars: An Interview with Harvey Danger’s Sean Nelson
The song was "Flagpole Sitta", and it was everywhere in the late '90s. Nearly two decades later, it finally gets the vinyl treatment.
The Truth of Milli Vanilli a Generation Later
This musical duo that never really was a musical duo prepared a nation of adolescents for disappointment -- and the eventual acceptance of Auto-Tune.
The Beach Boys – “Time to Get Alone”
While there are obvious downsides to the kind of discography that the Beach Boys have assembled -- it's dense, lengthy, and larded with inconsistent results -- one of the payoffs deserves special mention: those moments of discovery.
White Jumpsuits, Catsuited Babes, Pornstaches, and Other Joys of ’70s Sci-Fi Television
As the idealism of the ‘60s congealed into the malaise of the ‘70s, TV offered small bands of forlorn humans in tight suits, roaming the stars. These are the “the starlost shows”.
Eastern Dragons Meet Western Tigers: Wu-Tang Clan’s Debut Helped Asian Films Find a New Audience
Quentin Tarantino himself arguably wouldn’t have been so emboldened to make the Kill Bill films without that fire set forth by the Wu’s debut.