How Low Budget Brought About The Kinks’ Second Act
Happy 45th Anniversary to the album that belatedly made the band rock stars in America
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Pretenders: Relentless in Boston
Chrissie Hynde and co. rip it up for a sold out MGM Music Hall
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Print the Legend: Interrogating The Paranoid Style
Elizabeth Nelson on her band’s brilliant new album, the state of the arts and the subtle link between Taylor Swift and fascism
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Back on the Chain Gang: The Pretenders’ Learning to Crawl at 40
Looking back on the band’s invigorated third album
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Tim Easton Reissues Two Classic Solo Albums
Special 20 and Not Cool are available now on Black Mesa Records
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Dead Or Alive: Johnny Thunders’ So Alone at 45
Remembering a New Wave era classic that defied category
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Pretenders Get Reflective on Relentless
What makes their new album so appealing
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Joe Bonamassa Is Right About Jann Wenner
I hope this op-ed is articulate enough for the Rolling Stone founder
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The Art School Abandon of San Francisco Punks The Mutants
Talking old school West Coast underground with the band who opened for The Cramps at Napa State Mental Hospital
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Chrissie Hynde (Refuses To) Play The Hits!
What happens after a legendary artist wants to retire their most popular material from concert setlists
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I Bought a Hit Song by Mux Mool
Unexpected payday when EDM artist lands a song on a TV show
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‘Have A Nice Death’: Chrissie Hynde at 70
Looking back on over 40 years of seeing the fiery Pretenders frontwoman on stage
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Two Trains Running: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Yardbirds and the Blues-Rock Explosion of 1965
The duel between these blues rock classics helped bring 1965 to a landing with a bang
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Five Lessons from Bass Culture and Warm Leatherette
As these two Island Records essentials turn 40, let us remind you why they both remain career pinnacles for Linton Kwesi Johnson and Grace Jones
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