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This week in music history, Fleetwood Mac released their most experimental album, Tusk. This was the band’s twelfth studio album, and it was released on Oct. 12, 1979; at the time, it was the most expensive rock album with production costs coming in at over $1 million.  Following an extremely memorable and popular album, like...

It was 56 years ago today (October 10th, 1966) that the Beach Boys' released their masterpiece, "Good Vibrations." The song went on to top the chart for one week exactly two months later (December 10th to 16th, 1966). "Good Vibrations" was bandleader Brian Wilson's first attempt at a "modular" recording approach, which pieced together many different musical sections to form a constantly changing musical landscape. The song was also unique for its choice of...

Despite all the talk of “building a new Church,” the energy of progressive Catholicism is all in the service of denial and destruction.

WILMINGTON — A year of isolation due to the Covid-19 pandemic had local musician Tres Altman confined to home and family, but the making of his band The Paper…

It was 56 years ago tonight (August 29th, 1966), that the Beatles performed their last official concert in San Francisco at Candlestick Park. The tour, which had already hit Germany, Japan and the Philippines, was dogged by controversy -- protests greeted the group in Tokyo prior to their performance at the Budokan Arena, which until then had been reserved strictly for the martial arts. And in the Philippines, the group fled the country after being accused of snubbing the infamous President and ...

John Lennon said the lyrics of The Beatles' "Penny Lane" had a connection to his childhood. The song became an international hit.

From Tom Petty to The Eagles, fans have concocted some pretty bizarre—and very, very dark—theories about hit songs.

Multitrack recording is a process in the music recording field. Find out how multitrack recording works in this article from HowStuffWorks.

The story behind the creation of the most pivotal rock album of all time: The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

It was 55 years ago today (June 1st, 1967), that the Beatles released the legendary Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album in the U.K. The album, which was released a day later in the U.S., was one of the most groundbreaking and influential records in history. There had been an unprecedented eight-month gap with no new Beatles music since the group's previous album, 1966's Revolver, with the exception of the double A-sided single "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever,&qu...