Hello and hi to another week of “No Skips,” a column where I go over albums in need of recognition that also have no skippable songs. David Thomas Broughton’s “The Complete Guide to Insufficiency” ...
John Lennon was a celebrated wordsmith, who loved to play with language. But what do the words "Ah bowakawa, pousse pousse" ...
Lucinda Williams has launched the next volume of her Lu's Jukebox series of albums. Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles From ...
Pop singer Sabrina Carpenter has recently been breaking records with her latest album, “Short n’ Sweet.” Her redefined ...
Marking 50 years since Millie Jackson's Caught Up, Matthew Lindsay dives into a deep soul masterpiece, and explores the trope of the ‘other woman’ in soul ...
Grateful Dead loved to dish out Beatles covers, and these four renditions are some of the band's most fun covers to date.
He’d survived the disintegration of The Beatles, quickly pulled himself out of depression, and created one of the biggest ...
Appearing on 1969's Abbey Road, "Something" was Harrison's very first A-side Beatles single — seven years after the band began releasing music. It was a No. 1 hit in the U.S., as well as No. 4 in the ...
Lana Del Rey took the soundscape of The Eagles' "Hotel California" in a similar direction for the album 'Ultraviolence'.
Chris Maxwell's "Nothing­land" is a glorious throwback to that era, when albums were made to be consumed as cohesive pieces ...
While Retro Roundup considers what could be our next album, song or artist profile, whether one-shots or multi-parts, here ...
Musicians Elizabeth Ziff, Alyson Palmer, and Amy Ziff have been in the band Betty for 38 years. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to them about their latest album, "Eat," and about what keeps them going.