David Bromberg—Demon in Disguise—He was a session musician who’d contributed to albums by Dylan, Carly Simon, Gordon Lightfoot and others when he signed to Columbia Records in 1972. His self-titled debut included a track co-written by George Harrison, but it wasn’t until he released the...
Genesis held their first live performance in 1969 at a birthday party. During the first half of the 1970s, with Peter Gabriel leading the group, Genesis released the album Foxtrot (1972), which was their first big hit in the UK, and in 1973 the album Selling England by the Pound, which...
In 1975, Hood recorded Neighborhoods, his lone album, and released it himself. The record drifts through Hood’s own childhood memories via tranquil piano, light synthesizer washes, and nimble zither runs. Hood gives the dreamy, melodic album further layers of sound by intermingling field recording...
A new, uniquely fearless kind of rock record for a new, increasingly fearful century, Radiohead’s fourth album, released in October 2000, remains one of the more stunning sonic makeovers in music history. The band had the freedom to do whatever it wanted after its 1997 alt-rock breakthro...
Charli XCX's fourth album was written and released during lockdown, encapsulating elegantly the confusion, loneliness and boredom of the time. But, though it will undoubtedly and rightly be used as a kind of sonic photograph in the years to come – both due to its subject matter, and how ...
Formed in 1965, the London blue rock band has released a long list of albums throughout their career, though the band did see a significant amount of lineup changes over the years. You can rank all of these albums, from Street Corner Talking to Getting to the Point. This list of ...
Surfin’ Safari,was released, but most of the otherBeach Boyswere still high-school age (Carl Wilson, the baby of the band, was only 16 at the time), and their effect on American pop was already evident. Even their first single, “Surfin’,” famously scored Wilson an F in music ...
Released in 2006,Imaginary Diseasescompiles for the first time all live recordings from a very rare and undocumented Zappa band line-up. In 1972, after taking a 20-piece 'electric orchestra' on the road for eight d...
More precisely, Rogers Waters And Pink Floyd investigates, in depth, the five concept albums that the band released between 1972 and 1983: Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall, and The Final Cut, which was released in response to the Falklands War and represents ...
Gustavsen’s piano is often solemn and stately, while Tore Brunborg’s tenor saxophone possesses a breathy gravitas. The fact that eight of the 49-year-old Norwegian’s albums have been released by ECM (his last was in 2018) means that Gustavsen is considered a core contributor to the ...