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A new documentary on The Beach Boys streaming on Disney+ takes a sanitized approach to the band that embodied the ’60s California dream.

Bassist Leland Sklar looks back on the experience of recording one of Jackson Browne's most famous records during a May 2024 interview.

57 years later, John Hartford's "Gentle On My Mind" remains a timeless ode to long-distance love and longing, made famous by Glen Campbell.

On May 16, 1966, the Beach Boys released their iconic 11th album, Pet Sounds, via Capitol Records. To celebrate, we're revisiting our Classic Album Review of...

In 1961, Blue Hawaii was a typical example of the formulaic movie vehicle Elvis Presley was cranking out. The movie features exotic locations, good-looking young people having fun, a love story, a batch of Elvis ballads, and one or two upbeat numbers so the older characters can take cheap shots at rock 'n' roll. Presley would use one of the songs to close his concerts. Let's take a look at the story behind "Can't Help Falling in Love" by Elvis Presley.

In their latest essay, Matt Mitchell pens an ode to Simon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer" and dreaming of living somewhere else, only to stay in the place where your grief got its name.

"Superstar" somehow epitomized the output of The Carpenters and deviated from it all at once. On the one hand, it's a song that's so gentle that it wouldn't break an egg, putting it in line with their other massive hits. Yet it also goes to darker corners than the typical song by the duo of Karen and Richard Carpenter, in terms of both the haunting arrangement and Karen's wounded vocal. What is "Superstar" about? Who wrote the track? And how did the Carpen...

A friend recently discovered a local connection for Clem Cattini. Nope. I hadnt heard of him either. Born in Stoke Newington in 1937, he worked in his youth…

A friend recently discovered a local connection for Clem Cattini. Nope. I hadnt heard of him either. Born in Stoke Newington in 1937, he worked in his youth…

A friend recently discovered a local connection for Clem Cattini. Nope. I hadnt heard of him either. Born in Stoke Newington in 1937, he worked in his youth…