The Who – Sound carved in stone
The Who rose from Shepherd's Bush pubs to Tommy, Live at Leeds, and Who's Next: volume, Mod fury, and rock-opera ambition with Townshend, Daltrey, Entwistle, and Moon.
L7 – Fuel My Fire
On L7's 1994 album Hungry for Stink (Slash / Reprise), Fuel My Fire is a short, loud hard-rock cut from the Los Angeles band's fourth studio record. Donita Sparks, Suzi Gardner, Je…
Afterlife Interview with Sid Vicious
Riffs and Beats Sid, what do you make of today’s music scene?
Master of Puppets – Metallica
Master of Puppets was cut at Sweet Silence in Copenhagen with Flemming Rasmussen and set the thrash template for what followed.
Tears For Fears – Head Over Heels
Head Over Heels, from Songs from the Big Chair (1985): UK No. 12, US Billboard Hot 100 No. 3.
Jimmy Cliff – The voice that carried The Harder They Come
From Somerton, Jamaica, to the 1972 film The Harder They Come, Jimmy Cliff turned ska and early reggae into a passport: "Many Rivers to Cross," "You Can Get It If You Really Want," and a career that outlived every wave.
Dayglow – Then It All Goes Away
Dayglow’s Then It All Goes Away (People in Motion, 2022): Sloan Struble wrote the bassline over coffee and finished the song the same Texas day.
Lovesexy – Seven weeks that buried the Black Album
In May 1988, Lovesexy replaced a scrapped Black Album with seven weeks of Paisley Park sessions and a flowerbed cover.
Benjamin Diamond – Little Scare
Benjamin Diamond’s Little Scare (Strange Attitude, 2000): after Stardust, Diamond Traxx/Epic, Paris house solo.
Wu-Tang Clan – Nine swords, one chamber
Wu-Tang Clan's 1993 debut Enter the Wu-Tang put nine Staten Island MCs on one RZA-built chamber of beats.