Daily Newsletter, October 14, 2024

I kid you not: 600. And more to come, no doubt. For those keeping score at home, that’s quite a leap from last week’s 400-some new albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and cassettes. Or, to put it another way: Well, that escalated quickly. Let’s get right to it:   […]

When I began compiling these roundups a thousand years ago (or so it feels), I quickly realized that The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones were (and are) the four biggest names in the music-book game by a mile — nary a week goes by without a new title about at least […]

Any songwriter is about trying to capture a feeling, but these artists were able to take the entire generation with them on these lyrics.

The 1970s produced a number of great folk songs and these are 15 of the best.

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Charanjit Singh's LP, Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat, was created in Mumbai in 1982 and established a vast legacy.

In 1978, The Grateful Dead and their entourage landed in Egypt for three gigs at the Pyramids of Giza. This is what happened

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