Lou Reed’s Lost Tapes and Back Pages
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Between a mysterious 1975 song set and a bounty of new publications, the late trailblazer continues to fascinate new generations of scholars and superfans
In the Jungle: Inside the Long, Hidden Genealogy of ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’
Posted in: Music FeaturesHow American music legends made millions off the work of a Zulu tribesman who died a pauper.
The Clash’s ‘London Calling’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know
Posted in: Music FeaturesThe band didn’t write “Revolution Rock,” Joe Strummer started “Lost in the Supermarket” on the back of a guitar-string package, and Paul Simonon smashed his bass a day…
Final Words: How Some of Our Greatest Artists Used Their Music to Reckon With Death
Posted in: Music FeaturesIn a decade defined by loss, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen and others made transcendent art in their last days.
Counterculture ’73: Summer Jam, Timothy Leary and the Sexual Revolution
Posted in: Music FeaturesIn an excerpt from the new book ‘1973: Rock at the Crossroads,’ Andrew Grant Jackson breaks down the counterculture moments of the summer of 1973
‘Let It Bleed’: Why the Stones’ Nastiest Masterpiece Feels Right on Time
Posted in: Music FeaturesTheir 1969 classic remains the band’s darkest LP, and that’s why it sounds perfect right now
Owsley Stanley’s ‘Sonic Journals’: Inside the Tape Vault of a Psychedelic Legend
Posted in: Music FeaturesNew box set features vintage live recordings of New Riders of the Purple Sage, made by the pioneering acid chemist and sound engineer known as Bear
That Time Michael Bolton Wrote a Song With Bob Dylan
Posted in: Music Features“Anybody in their right mind would stop whatever they were doing,” singer recalls of the lead-up to the pair’s unlikely 1990 collaboration on “Steel Bars”
Releasing Joyner Lucas and Eminem’s ‘What If I Was Gay?’ Would Have Been a Huge Mistake
Posted in: Music FeaturesThe two MCs were the victim of a leak this week, leading the internet to a “Stan”-like track that’s about as bad as you can imagine
In the Room at Nirvana’s ‘MTV Unplugged in New York’
Posted in: Music FeaturesWhatever demons were circling him, Kurt Cobain was in total control on a night that showed what his future could have been
