Daily Newsletter, June 17, 2024

Today in rock ’n’ roll beginnings: Bob Dylan recorded Like A Rolling Stone in New York City in 1965; the Monterey Pop Festival kicked off in California in 1967; David Bowie released The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars in 1972; and model-train enthusiast Rod Stewart married Penny Lancaster on […]

This week's Alternative Album Chart includes a new mini-album from Fräulein, as well as new studio lengths from John Cale, Cola and Raveena.

Home » Blog » Hot Picks 15/6/24 – The Best New Releases Photo: THE HYBRIS *Read Disclosure Here Today we bring to you our hottest finds of the week. We have curated a list of the best releases from our musical travels this week and are putting them all in one place for your listing pleasure! […]

In 2011, Blondie’s Debbie Harry sat down with Classic Rock to look back over her stellar career

Some bands find it necessary to replace their lead singer. These bands had multiple lead singers.

Dorian Lynskey at The Guardian:

John Cale made musical history as part of The Velvet Underground, here he recounts his music-obsessed teenage years.

There are so many great folk rock bands that released music in the 1970s, but these four are some of the very best.

Everybody loves Joni Mitchell. Everybody should love Alan Vega. And next week, everybody can love them both a little more, thanks to a pair of new biographies. Also on the reading list: Tomes on David Bowie, The Beatles, some pivotal years in music and more. Read all about ’em:   Traveling: On the Path of […]

Anthony Galluzzo's new book Against the Vortex uses John Boorman's cult sci-fi film as the starting point for exploring a neglected strand of '70s thinkers and artists whose ideas propose a radical degrowth utopia as the horizon to which our politics should be oriented

'Waterloo Sunset' by The Kinks has been subjected to countless covers since its release, but few of them add to the song like Elliott Smith did.

The Talking Heads cover of "Take Me to the River" is one of the great cover songs. But other artists put their own stamp on it, and they stamped hard.