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Described as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept was 'rock and Rimbaud'), Horses belongs as much to th...

Released in the US in 1978, Blondie s Parallel Lines brought the band their first commercial success. By mixing punk, disco and radio-friendly rock...

Daydream Nation is the kind of gorgeous monstrosity (born of extremes, rife with difficulties, and mythic in proportion) that can crush the will of...

In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music's towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic--black or...

Pet Sounds is, rightly, one of the most celebrated pop albums ever released. It has also been written about, pored over, and analyzed more than mos...

The Stone Roses shows a band sizzling with skill, consumed with drive and aspiration and possessing an almost preternatural mastery of the pop para...

The reverse of Nick Drake's headstone, wedged deep into the earth of an English parish church graveyard, reads: "Now we rise and we are everywhere....

Teen pop is a sub-genre of popular music marketed to tweens and teens. Its melodic yearning and veneer of sincerity appeal to an emerging romantic ...

This book celebrates Madvillainy as a representation of two genius musical minds melding to form one revered supervillain. A product of circumstanc...

This title explores a key hip hop album marking the cross over point where the streets and the charts collided. Contradiction the simultaneous exis...

Featuring exclusive interviews with key figures, from Napalm Death vocalist Barney Greenway to guitarist Bill Steer of Gentlemans Pistols, Carcass,...

Beginning in the late 1970s as an offshoot of disco and punk, dance-punk is difficult to define. Also sometimes referred to as disco-punk and funk-...

From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James "J Dilla" Yancey crafted a set of tracks tha...