‘Definitely a momentum killer’: Mike Love laments the lost Beach Boys classic SMiLE
“What would have happened,” Love muses, “had there not been drugs involved?”
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Here’s Chippy – Little Songs (2014)
Chip Muellemann’s Here’s Chippy offers an album driven by a victorious blend of raw energy and technical triumph.
Indigo Mist [Cuong Vu + Richard Karpen] – That The Days Go By And Never Come Again (2014)
Provocative and fanciful, they bring Ellington and Strayhorn closer to us.
‘I don’t know what the hell it’s about!’: Brian May goes inside Queen’s creative process
A fizzy alchemy surrounded one of the band’s hardest-rocking tunes.
‘Time to shift and focus that way’: Jimmy Page says break between solo projects has been beneficial
Jimmy Page’s first, and last, proper solo album was 1988’s ‘Outrider.’
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons – The Classic Albums Box; Frankie Valli – Selected Solo Works (2014)
Rhino capitalizes on the upcoming ‘Jersey Boys’ movie with timely box sets.
‘Some of it was a little bit overblown’: Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson on prog rock’s ups and downs
Anderson says he and contemporaries in ELP and Yes were often just showing off.
‘I’m not trying to slag the guy’: David Crosby returns to Crosby Stills and Nash’s failed Rick Rubin collaboration
This mismatched partnership generated far more headlines than actual music.
‘They don’t talk about it much’: John Stamos on the Beach Boys’ Charles Manson connection
“Never Learn Not to Love,” from 1969’s ’20/20,’ grew out of an original song by Manson.
Jonathan Rowden Group – Becoming (2014)
There’s a spiritual unity uncommon in much of jazz today, and even rarer in a debut album.
