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21st Century Men: The Kinks’ Muswell Hillbillies at 50

21st Century Men: The Kinks’ Muswell Hillbillies at 50

The Kinks’ landmark album Muswell Hillbillies turns 50 and endures as a prophetic masterpiece that anticipates our messy political moment.

Ray Davies and America Continue to Get Reacquainted

Ray Davies and America Continue to Get Reacquainted

Kinks frontman Ray Davies has some thoughts to share about his time in the United States, some banal and some deeply personal.

Pugwash: Play This Intimately (As If Among Friends)

Pugwash: Play This Intimately (As If Among Friends)

Play This Intimately (As if Among Friends) is as unobtrusive as its banner implies, but cheery enough to beg repeated hearings.

The Kinks: Muswell Hillbillies (Legacy Edition)

The Kinks – “The Way Love Used to Be”

Americana: The Kinks, the Riff, the Road: The Story

Ten Songs From 1967 That Shaped Prog Rock

Old Country Comfort: How the British Might Save American Music (Again)

Ray Davies: See My Friends

The Year In Music: July 2010

TV Party Tonight: Interview with the 88

Kelley Stoltz: To Dreamers

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