Music Archives: 12/2015

In the years before the Butthole Surfers had a radio hit with “Pepper”—a single that, Billboard noted at the time, “borrows liberally” from a much…

Songs don’t come a lot more direct in their emotionality than “Only Love Can Break Your Heart,” the third track off of Neil Young’s 1970…

Readers of Time Out New York and listeners of WFMU’s “Miniature Minotaurs” know writer/editor/DJ/producer Kurt Gottschalk, who’s also the founder/curator of the ridiculous single-serving Facebook…

For the past 30 years (if not more), you can see a re-creation of leather jackets, greased-back pompadours, and lollipop dresses, just like something out…

Merry Christmas from Radiohead, who have just posted their unused theme song for the latest James Bond romp Spectre on social media today. Commenting on…

It was 1981, and looking to soak up some revolutionary–and authentically countercultural–inspiration, The Clash recorded what would become their fifth album, Combat Rock in Frestonia,”…

Alice Cooper playing ping-pong with Santa ‘Tis the Season folks and as I’m getting ready to roll off Dangerous Minds for a week, I wanted…

This Is The Moody Blues is one of those almost mythical greatest hits albums from the 60s or 70s where every single cut was killer,…

Two years into Frankie and Annette’s Beach Party series, emboldened by the five installments behind them, American International Pictures tried a variation on the movies’…

Adam Payne, the prodigiously talented solo artist, leader of Residual Echoes and proprietor of Pacific Coast Editions, has discovered a shocking fact no one else…