Elk City leaders Ray Ketchem (drums and production) and Renée LoBue (vocals) had plenty to
keep them busy during the eight years that separated 2010's House of Tongues and 2018's Everybody's Insecure. Ketchem opened a successful recording studio in Montclair, ...
On the cover of his solo debut album Jesus of Cool, Nick Lowe is pictured
in six rock & roll get-ups -- hippie, folkie, greasy rock & roller, new wave hipster -- giving the not-so-subtle implication that this guy can ...
In early 1979, as Joe Perry was preparing his temporary exit from Aerosmith and the
Cars were busy recording Candy-O, the Atlantics were poised to become Boston's newest export. ABC Records had signed the band in the fall of 1978, ...
In retrospect, 1982 was a brief, exhilarating moment in between the fall of disco and
the rise of MTV, when the eternal verities of real rock & roll broke through once again. The punk and new wave music of the ...
Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach first collaborated on God Give Me Strength, a sweeping ballad
that functioned as the centerpiece in Allison Anders' Grace of My Heart. It was a stunning song in the tradition of Bacharach's classic '60s work ...
A companion record to the solo effort Art Official Age, PlectrumElectrum finds Prince backed by
3rdEyeGirl, the all-female power trio that is a band for the 2010s. If Art Official Age veered toward revamped soul, PlectrumElectrum, as its convoluted title ...
Few rock & roll records rock as hard or with as much originality as the
Pretenders' eponymous debut album. A sleek, stylish fusion of Stonesy rock & roll, new wave pop, and pure punk aggression, Pretenders is teeming with sharp ...