Posted Sat May 31, 2008 12:24pm PDT
With the mighty My Bloody Valentine set to play their first live shows in 16 years, we rewind to March 2004 to hear the group's leader Kevin Shields talking to The Guardian's Paul Lester about music, madness, and making Creation Records boss Alan McG
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Posted Fri May 30, 2008 5:16pm PDT
Mac "Doctor John" Rebennack is a torch-bearer for – and a living monument to – the eternally funky music of his native New Orleans. In the month he releases his post-Katrina album City that Care Forgot , we revisit the good Doctor in his Right Pl
Posted Tue May 27, 2008 6:07pm PDT
Stars of stage and screen tend to fall foul of critical prejudice when they make music. Now Scarlett Johanssen has teamed up with TV On The Radio's David Andrew Sitek to record an album of songs by Tom Waits – and it works.
Posted Mon May 19, 2008 5:39am PDT
The rediscovery of the extraordinary Karen Dalton is among the more welcome trends of the recent past. In the wake of yet more posthumous releases from "the Hillbilly Billie Holiday," we re-evaluate the career of a tragic genius lauded by everyone fr
Posted Sat May 17, 2008 5:30pm PDT
With Neil Diamond topping the Billboard albums chart with Home Before Dark, the second of his albums to be produced by Rick Rubin, it seems a good a time as any to revisit the early years of his career
Posted Fri May 16, 2008 7:41am PDT
Rhino's new 2-CD reissue of the classic Otis Blue – arguably the greatest soul album ever made – gives us the perfect excuse to post some highlights from a Hit Parader interview with Otis Redding from August 1967. -- Barney Hoskyns, RBP Editor
Posted Fri May 9, 2008 1:25pm PDT
Ask any real connoisseur of soul and old-school R&B who the best African-American male singer of the last 50 years is, and chances are they'll nominate Bobby "Blue" Bland.
Posted Mon May 5, 2008 12:26pm PDT
After a long silence, Spiritualized's Jason Pierce returns with a new album, the wittily-titled Songs in A
Posted Fri May 2, 2008 12:20pm PDT
Any Beach Boys fan paying attention to the group's song credits (on e.g. Friends and Sunflower) would not have been surprised by the quality of Dennis Wilson's sublime 1977 solo album Pacific Ocean Blue. This unsung masterpiece by the troubled alcoho
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