Album reviews, artist profiles, and music industry perspectives.
Love's Forever Changes is a 60s masterpiece, but the band's story is stranger and more uneven than the legend suggests.
Spirit had a hit with 'I Got a Line on You,' but their real strength was in albums that blended pop, jazz, and psychedelia.
A bright, Buddy Holly-inspired sound cut short by a mysterious death—here's what made the Bobby Fuller Four matter.
Before the solo fame, Todd Rundgren's first band wrestled between loud riffs and soft melodies—and made two great singles.
A mod band that burned out fast, leaving two perfect singles and a guitar trick that still sounds strange.
The Seeds turned repetition into tension with locked keyboard lines and Sky Saxon's urgent vocals across two key 1960s albums.
How a scruffy R&B band from Sidcup made one of the 60s' most ambitious albums and kept stumbling forward.
Vashti Bunyan's 1970 debut sold almost nothing, then became a folk touchstone decades later.
John Fahey's steel-string guitar work is a quiet, deliberate architecture of blues, folk, and classical fragments that rewards attention.
Three albums, a soft voice, and a fingerpicked guitar that took decades to reach the audience it deserved.
Parsons made only two proper solo albums, but his unhurried phrasing and hybrid of country, soul, and rock left a deep mark on alt-country.
A singer-songwriter whose sparse guitar work and devastating lyrics earned him peer reverence and cult status, not sales.
