Lesh did not write and sing lead vocals on many Grateful Dead songs, but when he did, it was a knockout. “Box of Rain,” which he composed for his dying father, is a gorgeous, melancholy melody with complex chord changes. Opening the Dead’s fifth studio album, American Beauty, it ...
The penultimate song on the Black Album, “My Friend of Misery” is that rarest of Metallica songs: a tune co-written by bassist Newstead. Opening with an elegant bass line before moving into one of the band’s patented cinematic intros, it features detailed, Thin Lizzy-ish solos from both...
Listen to 10 new must-hear Afrobeats songs from African artists Odunsi (The Engine), Aya Nakamura & Ayra Starr, Tyla, Tems, King Promise and more.
and Pride is so much more than a month of parades and celebrations – it’s life. And while we’d never baulk at an excuse to celebrate everything that Pride stands for, we also believe that any time is the perfect time to crank up these gay songs and fly that rainbow flag....
He has charted more than forty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including eight songs that reached the number one position: "Sticks and Stones", "Alibis", "Can't Break It to My Heart", "My Second Home", "If the Good Die Young", "Texas Tornado", "Time Marches On...
Billy Corgan reaches for the heavens, pouring all of his guitar virtuosity and studio wizardry into a richly detailed album that still reveals new subtleties over two decades later. The wonder is thatSiamese Dream’s songs, including hunting gems like “Today” and “Mayonaise,” don’t get lo...
The 100 Best Songs of 1983, the Year Pop Went Crazy The musical world of 2023 was born here — featuring Run-DMC, Prince, Madonna, and many more February 24, 2023 Top: Joseph "Run" Simmons, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, and DJ Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell (from left) of Run DMC. Bo...
Count Basie's best songs reveal a pianist and bandleader with a very simple bottom line: swinging hard and making you smile.
Then the songs get slowly begin to evolve to shoegaze, ambient and post-rock to produce certain vibrations of atmosphere. 100 Rinoa 10 votes Rinoa were an English post-metal group, formed in Essex in 2007. Their line-up consisted of vocalist Perry Bryan, guitarists Matthew Holden and Jozef ...
Listen to Pitchfork’s favorite songs of 2023 and you’re bound to be blown back by the full spectrum of human emotion: the dizzying high of new love (“Rush,”“Padam Padam,”“Super Shy”), the vengeful low of a woman scorned (“Kill Bill,”“get him back!,”“Boy’s a liar ...