How Depeche Mode launched their career with one of the most important synth-pop records ever released

One of the band's biggest tunes marked the end of their first chapter, but became a springboard that would propel both them ...
Classical Music

These 21 albums aren't quite like anything else in rock

From pagan folk to noise experiments and cosmic prog, these 15 albums defy convention: rock’s strangest, boldest, most unrepeatable visions ...
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The song that invented the future

We explore how a single song released in 1977 quietly reshaped the future of music. By placing the synthesizer at the center of a pop track, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte, and Donna Summer created a ...
Seven Days

A Road Map to Burlington’s Electronic Music Scene

Need help navigating the EDM world? Start with these highlights of the local scene, from Sunday Night Mass to artists like ...
The Daily Campus

British Invasion: George Harrison

Today on British Invasion — the column that talks about both Mr. Blobby and The Beatles in the same breath — I hope to start a series exploring the solo careers of all four Beatles ...

Beach Boys ‘We Gotta Groove’ Boxed Set Revives Cult Love for Classic ‘Love You’ Album: Producers and Engineers Tell What Went Down in the ‘Brian’s Back’ Era

At a Grammy Museum event celebrating the the Beach Boys' 'We Gotta Groove' boxed set, producers, engineers and Mike Love ...
American Songwriter

4 of the Most Musically Adventurous Songs Ever Recorded by Simon & Garfunkel

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, and the duo’s final two albums—1968’s Bookends and 1970’s Bridge Over Troubled Water —included multiple tunes with inventive and unusual instrumentation, ...
MusicRadar

“It revealed what went on behind the doors of Kling Klang, and for once the truth is almost up there with the fiction”: What we’ve learned about the inner workings of ...

Here are five takeaways that seal the band's legendary Man Machine status - and shed a light on how Kling Klang really ...
What Hi-Fi? on MSN

From the best of 1986 to Massive Attack's finest, we've got all of our favourite test tracks in one place

Songs that are particularly telling of a system's talents ...
MusicRadar

“One day in Berlin, Eno came running in and said, ‘I have heard the sound of the future’”: How to replicate the trailblazing pulse of I Feel Love

I Feel Love’s innovative electronic rhythm section set the stage for pretty much everything that followed, and here’s how you can recreate its bewitching energy in your DAW ...
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Super Furry Animals: 'There's no need to have the Union Jack in music'

As the Welsh rock group reunite for their upcoming UK tour, they reminisce on psychedelics, illegal raves, and the band's Rhys Ifans era ...
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The Beach Boys’ We Gotta Groove, The Brother Studio Years reviewed: their rocky yet often fruitful ’70s reassessed

All that barely begins to suggest the fraught circumstances that sometimes impact the music on We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years, the latest archival release to explore the Beach Boys’ rocky ...