Most people saw the eccentric side to Jim Morrison, but not Ray Manzarek; he got to witness something much more personal.

Whenever anyone thinks of New York’s bustling new wave scene, it’s usually with regard to three of its best and most defining bands: Blondie, Talking Heads, and Television. And for good reason. While ...

For all the great tunes that Glenn Frey has made, he felt certain songs always kept a special place in his heart for getting it all started.

Upon their release from Pye in 1971, The Kinks found a greater degree of artistic freedom at RCA, allowing Ray Davies to ...

The official synopsis for Wim Wenders’ film Perfect Days, from 2023, reads: “Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquillity. Some encounters also lead him ...

While his songwriting ability may not have been enough to propel him towards fame and fortune on its own, it’s something of a blessing that Art Garfunkel had a voice to die for. When paired up with ...

“Ventura Highway in the sunshine / Where the days are longer, the nights are stronger than moonshine”, so goes ‘Ventura Highway’, a breakthrough single from the band America in 1972, from their second ...

Compiling the greatest new music releases of the past seven days into one Big Indie Playlist, featuring songs hand-picked by ...

Once the coolest, most culturally important nation on the planet, it suddenly feels anything but, so when did America lose its cool? The country that gave us Bob Dylan and NWA, clothed us in Levi’s, ...

Picture your favourite local coffeehouse: whether it has the old, lived-in quality of historic walls, or it is styled as a more modern spin on the classic café, chances are, they equally harness that ...

A lot of people, including Paul McCartney, don't seem to love the set lists of 21st-century Dylan gigs, but fortunately for ...

Led Zeppelin already wrote some of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time, but the greatest riffs Jimmy Page made were ...