News
Music and Taxes: The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Primal Scream, Sharon Jones, The Knife, and More
Apr 21, 2017
By Stephen Mayne
This week we’re going to build bridges, albeit of a temporary and highly specific kind. Because if there’s one thing that unites people, it’s the confusion, frustration, and panic brought on by the tax filing deadline. More
Interviews
Dec 17, 2020
By Jake Uitti
On December 18th, just in time for the holidays, music fans can get the kinks out of their system after a long many months in quarantine-hibernation and get their hands on a copy of the new 50th anniversary reissue of the record Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One, from British band The Kinks. We caught up with lead guitarist and co-founder of The Kinks, Dave Davies, 73, who is the younger brother of the group’s frontman, Ray Davies, to ask him about his early days in music, what it was like to collaborate with his kin, and what he remembers from The Kinks’ glory years. More
Reviews
Jan 03, 2020
By Michael James Hall
Following the perceived flop of the now-lauded Village Green Preservation Society in 1968, Ray Davies, never a band leader to follow the path of least resistance, chose to follow it up with another ambitious working class concept album: Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire. More
Jan 08, 2015
By Michael Wojtas
The lofty reputations of two masterful preceding concept albums—1968’s The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society and 1969’s Arthur—have long overshadowed Muswell Hillbillies, originally released to little fanfare in 1971. More