It’s 1976, the United States’ bicentennial year, and the U.S. treasury issues the first $2 bill. Political outsider and peanut farmer Jimmy Carter wins the U.S. presidential election, defeating Gerald...
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Often overshadowed in retrospect by his peers Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, and Nick Lowe, Graham Parker surely ranks as one of the key figures of the style of British new...
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I knew absolutely nothing of the British space rock band Hawkwind until quite recently, with the retrospective listening project that has since become this website. It seems to me that...
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Aerosmith gets pretty mad props from a lot of folks, it seems—especially in the Boston area, where I’ve spent a fair chunk of my life—and I guess I can see...
Read MoreAfter a very lengthy delay, NoHypeNoTrendsMusic posts have returned. I had already planned to take the summer off, for the most part—I just had too much travel and visiting friends…
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