One Nite Alone… – Piano, voice, and a quiet NPG Club drop
On 14 May 2002, NPG Music Club members received One Nite Alone
Interview of James Brown (1988)
A 1988 television interview catches James Brown still billing himself as the hardest working man in show business, even when the answers zigzag. He talks work rate, band discipline, and the funk that never needed permission from rock radio.
Moon Martin – Power pop with a private-eye cool
John David Martin left Oklahoma with a guitar, a bowl cut, and a habit of writing songs that sounded like detective novels set to power pop.
Coldplay – Clocks
Coldplay’s Clocks (2002): late piano triplets on A Rush of Blood, Martin, Buckland, Champion, Berryman.
T. Rex – Glam glitter cut to a Boogie riff
Marc Bolan spent the late 1960s as a folk mystic with Tyrannosaurus Rex, then plugged in, shortened the name to T. Rex, and built glam rock's most concentrated singles run with Tony Visconti at the desk and a guitar riff as the entire argument.
Justin Bieber – Peaches
On 19 March 2021, Justin Bieber released Peaches, with Daniel Caesar and Giveon, on the same day as his sixth album, Justice.
Prince – Self-titled, still playing every part
On 19 October 1979 Warner Bros. released Prince, the self-titled second album written, produced, and almost entirely performed by the twenty-one-year-old at Alpha Studios in Burbank.
Serge Gainsbourg – I’m the Boy
In June 1984, at House of Music in West Orange, Serge Gainsbourg hid a Stravinsky motif inside a funk track about the night.
Californication – Frusciante back, California on the tongue
On 8 June 1999 Warner Bros. released Californication, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' seventh album and the first with John Frusciante back after Dave Navarro's exit.