If a lone kazoo isn't enough to turn you on to this most awesome of instruments, how about a multi-tracked, auto-tuned kazooist performing Beethoven's epic Symphony No. 5. Complete with beat boxing. It's certainly a niche. Kazoophonists? Not ones to let negative stereotypes get them d...
not highly regarded by the band themselves - Mick Jagger said that “when I listen to Exile it has some of the worst mixes I’ve ever heard” - but it remains a classic; a sprawling double album which captured the Stones at their most rootsy, their most bluesy, their most rock & ...
Newton-John delivers a flawless, breathy delivery of thisBeatlesclassic, released on her 1976 albumCome on Over. Though the arrangement is largely the same as the Fab Four’s original, Newton-John adds her own style of vulnerability and pop sensibility to the tune.Paul McCartneyfamously penned...
Newton-John delivers a flawless, breathy delivery of thisBeatlesclassic, released on her 1976 albumCome on Over. Though the arrangement is largely the same as the Fab Four’s original, Newton-John adds her own style of vulnerability and pop sensibility to the tune.Paul McCartneyfamously penned...
A New York landmark, this album expanded the scope of punk rock by taking in the influence of free jazz and French Symbolist poetry; not for nothing, the leader did rechristen himself Tom Verlaine. And it’s still energetic as all get-up, especially on the classic opener “See No Evil...
The 1990s' greatest record art, ranked. Dig through the CD bin with us for the 40 best album covers of the 90s, from the Nirvana baby to Ol' Dirty Bastard.
Rock world. Two-time Best Rock Album Grammy winner Sheryl Crow returned withC’mon C’mon, a record that wasn’t quite on par with its two predecessors. Robert Plant was more focused on blues-based covers with hisDreamlandalbum. Elvis Costello’sWhen I Was Cruelwas critically hailed, but ...
Rock world. Two-time Best Rock Album Grammy winner Sheryl Crow returned withC’mon C’mon, a record that wasn’t quite on par with its two predecessors. Robert Plant was more focused on blues-based covers with hisDreamlandalbum. Elvis Costello’sWhen I Was Cruelwas critically hailed, but ...
What do you do when you’re prepping a math-rock debut that could potentially go on to be a classic? You get the guy who gave Steve Albini a hand engineering Nirvana’s In Utero, Bob Weston, to produce the thing. (The album was titled after his nickname as well.) But where Weston...
Rock world. Two-time Best Rock Album Grammy winner Sheryl Crow returned withC’mon C’mon, a record that wasn’t quite on par with its two predecessors. Robert Plant was more focused on blues-based covers with hisDreamlandalbum. Elvis Costello’sWhen I Was Cruelwas critically hailed, but ...