The Weeknd – Party Monster
On Starboy (2016), Party Monster opens with filtered synths and a drum pattern that never rushes, with Lana Del Rey in the background.
Histoire de Melody Nelson – Rolls, bicycle, red hair, Vannier
A Rolls-Royce, a bicycle, a red-haired girl named Melody: Histoire de Melody Nelson opens Gainsbourg's 1971 concept with Vannier's orchestra.
Imagination – Changes
In November 1982 Imagination issued Changes as the fourth single from In the Heat of the Night: Jolley & Swain gloss, UK No. 31.
5 things you didn’t know about Kate Bush
Five facts behind the red dress and the Official Charts.
Justice – A neon cross on the dancefloor
Justice turned Ed Banger electro into a rock-stage brand: Cross, a neon †, and bass that scrapes like a distorted guitar.
Interview of Alice Cooper (1974)
A 1974 tour interview finds Alice Cooper still in the Billion Dollar Babies circus: makeup barely set, guillotine talk close at hand, and a deadpan Midwestern voice explaining shock rock like a stage plot. He separates Vincent Furnier from the Alice character without kil
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – You Know We Can’t Go Back
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ 2015 single You Know We Can’t Go Back: measured guitars, NME ‘brother’ lyric edit.
Lauryn Hill – The sermon and the sample
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill arrived in 1998 sounding finished: songs, sermons and samples already locked.
Foo Fighters – White Limo
Foo Fighters cut White Limo to tape in Grohl's garage for Wasting Light: Butch Vig producing, Lemmy in the VHS video, second single March 2011.
Another Green World – Brian Eno
Another Green World does not announce itself as a revolution: five songs, nine instrumentals.