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Is "Rumours" better than "To Pimp a Butterfly"? How does Harry Styles measure up against The Doors? Nearly 500 voters helped Rolling Stone magazine compile "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" for its latest hardcover release.

There’s a wonderful double-exposure photograph of Nikola Tesla, at the very end of the 19th century, seated in his laboratory reading a book as electricity arcs wildly about him. It reminds me of my first experience of the What Is Music? festival in Melbourne, at the very end of the 20th, where, among 30 or so others standing back to moderate the blasting wall of sound from whichever experimentalists were testing the limits of the PA, a young woman chose to sit on a wooden chair close to the s...

There’s a blaze of light in every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen. Hallelujah The last time I was in Montreal, Leonard Cohen, who had been dead two years, was on my mind. How could it be otherwise for one who has admired his songs

Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite reminisces about the bonds he's made through music, from Low's Mimi Parker to The Cure

It’s A Beautiful Day, with their soaring, unforgettable “White Bird,” were an anomaly among bands of the San Fran psychedelic scene of the late 1960s. Linda LaFlamme (now Neska) spoke with Richie Unterberger about those days.

Among the concerns by members of the community, dozens of whom showed up at a planning commission public hearing this week, is the lack of environmental analysis done on the land, which abuts College Woods.

Michael Belfer and his Bay Area-based bands the Sleepers and Tuxedomoon were mainstays, along with Crime, of the San Francisco punk and post-punk scenes of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. Influenced by the Stooges

And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow by Weyes Blood: Natalie Mering has made another triumph of lush contemporary songcraft

What began as an effort to obtain a “poor-man’s copyright“ 57 years ago is now a fascinating glimpse at Lou Reed becoming Lou Reed and evidence he may

Is Fleetwood Macs landmark album "Rumours" better than "To Pimp a Butterfly" by Kendrick Lamar? Should "Tapestry" by Carole King be ranked higher or lower than "Thriller" by Michael Jackson?