Genesis first came to prominence as a progressive rock band fronted by Peter Gabriel, who left after their classic album, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974). After the departure...
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A British friend of mine once asked me why Americans liked Steely Dan so much. He didn’t see much in them, and I found myself a bit at a loss...
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Rod Stewart emerged onto the music scene as the lead singer of the Jeff Beck Group, for the classic late-‘60s blues-rock albums Truth and Beck-Ola. His powerful, raspy voice oozed...
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What started as one of the UK’s premier blues-rock bands became a US/UK pop sensation. Fleetwood Mac should need little introduction, so let’s dive in. Playlist 1 When the remnants...
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For the longest time all my friends knew me as their source of new music. I was keeping up with the latest new bands, and spreading the word to them….
Swedish pop singer Robyn underwent one of the most significant artistic reinventions I can recall offhand. Beginning her career as a competent but unremarkable contemporary R&B singer, she channeled her…
The sweet, expressive voice of Roy Orbison is unmistakable. His albums and singles form one of the major artistic works of the first half of the 1960s. He sang sensitive,…
To call the Lovin’ Spoonful a folk-rock pop act does them a disservice, although I’m not really sure what to call them otherwise. Their beginnings were in the Greenwich Village...
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Being the daughter of the most iconic American singer of his generation must not have been easy. But Nancy Sinatra managed to carve out a respectable career as a pop…
Don and Phil Everly had a nice string of hit singles from 1957 to 1961 that put them at the forefront of pop music. Their vocal harmonies seem to my…
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