Flashback: The Kinks Debut With a Cover of Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’
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“When you heard Little Richard, you felt like you were going somewhere,” Dave Davies says of late rock & roll pioneer
Stranded Under the Northern Lights: A Musician’s Surreal Coronavirus Quarantine
Posted in: Music FeaturesFor Peruvian musician Victor Alarcon, the pandemic turned an expedition to film a music video under Aurora Borealis into a two-month self-isolation in Finnish Lapland
Song You Need to Know: Fontaines D.C., ‘A Hero’s Death’
Posted in: Music FeaturesAffirming life lessons from a fine Irish punk band
16 Great Little Richard Deep Cuts
Posted in: Music FeaturesBeyond the hits that kick-started rock & roll history, Little Richard’s catalog is full of must-hear tunes
‘I Majored in Mouth’: How Little Richard Invented the Rock Star
Posted in: Music FeaturesWith his “A-wop bop-a-loo-bop, a-lop bam boom” battle cry, the late singer-pianist embodied an irrepressible rebel spirit that inspired everyone from John Lennon to Jimi Hendrix
Life Without Live
Posted in: Music FeaturesStaying inside keeps us safe. It also costs us the greatest communal experience a music fan has access to — packing into a sweaty club or stadium for a concert
Owner of Famed L.A. Venue The Troubadour: ‘Are We Going to Be a Footnote in History?’
Posted in: Music Features“We’ve got no shareholders, no corporate funding and no income coming in whatsoever,” says Christine Karayan. “But the bills are still coming”
How Kraftwerk’s Synth Wizard Florian Schneider Rewired the World
Posted in: Music Features“It’s all electric energy, anyway,” Schneider said, summing up a sonic philosophy that upended the Seventies rock ideal, and influenced everyone from Depeche Mode to Derrick May
“It’s a Different Energy” – The Living End on Gigs in The Livestream Era
Posted in: Music FeaturesAs The Living End gear up to perform for Coopers' Live, Loud & Local series this weekend, bassist Scott Owen chats about their upcoming livestream show.
The Restless, Stressed-Out Genius of Car Seat Headrest
Posted in: Music FeaturesWill Toledo dared himself to listen to more pop music before making the band’s new album, ‘Making a Door Less Open.’ The result was a thrilling reinvention from one of indie rock’s top talents
