Tracing the creation of Exile on Main St. from the original songwriting done while touring America through the final editing in Los Angeles, Bill Janovitz explains how an album recorded by a British band in a villa on the French Riviera is pure American rock & roll. Learn More
The love that is the subject of DUSTY IN MEMPHIS is different from the love of her earlier songs: It is a love that is all at once diffuse, dark, unpredictable, ecstatic, and a terrible deal. Learn More
R.E.M.'s debut album, released in 1983, was so far removed from the prevailing trends of American popular music that it still sounds miraculous and out of time today. Learn More
What resonated about Endtroducing when it was released in 1996, and what makes it still resonate today, is the way in which it loosens itself from the mooring of the known and sails off into an uncharted territory that seems to exist both in and out of time. Learn More
The most commercially successful album of Bruce Springsteen's career, BORN IN THE USA, has often been underrated by critics and hardcover fans. Learn More
The received wisdom handed down by rock scholars and historians has been that for Dylan and The Hawks this was a period of woodshedding; of quiet meditation, musical reflection and scholarly, almost Spartan, diligence. Learn More