Wave's status as Patti Smith's most unapologetically pop album reveals the most authentically "punk" gesture of her career: rejecting the idea that her genre capabilities begin and end with that four-letter word.
Although created in the midst of personal and global turmoil, the Rolling Stones' 1969 studio album is routinely considered one of their best. A 50th anniversary deluxe edition is now out and celebrates this masterpiece.
The Velvet Underground's 1969 self-titled release, known as the "Grey Album", blazes boldly 50 years later, and retains the same sonic relevance as a Laura Nyro or Nick Drake record: artworks utterly of their moment, that sound like they could have been made yesterday.
Take a moment to consider Chic's massive 1979 disco hit "Good Times", the most present-tense song ever.
Asylum Records was famously home to the finest singer/songwriters of the '70s, including Joni Mitchell and Judee Sill. But, as a Japanese reissue of another woman's work proves, some of its biggest talents went unnoticed. Charles Donovan talks to Karen Alexander.
The Durutti Column's hesitant and beguiling foray into the realm of modern classical gets the thorough revisit that it deserves.
Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden is still as stunning and sublime in 2018 as it was in 1988.
When that last guitar's been packed away: Forty years ago, Jackson Browne introduced a new kind of concept album.
