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PETER, PAUL AND MARY: FIFTY YEARS IN MUSIC AND LIFE visually tells the intimate story of Peter, Paul, and Mary and their music, through their own words and with iconic images that follow their passionate, fifty-year journey to the center...

When Joni Mitchell hit the big 7-1 back on November 7, we put together a playlist in celebration of the famed Canadian singer-songwriter, talked a bit about her life and times and general awesomeness, and oh so casually mentioned how...

It’s been a good year for fans of Athens, Georgia’s favorite sons…or didn’t you see our 73 posts about the release of R.E.M.’s Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2002 Sessions? Okay, so that’s a slight exaggeration, but just in case...

A late November feast of folk, rock, and country sounds, much of it gospel-tinged, all of it burnished in afternoon light. Expect occasional flurries, scattered leaves, and warm ovens. Foil-wrapped casserole dishes and those gold-brown canisters that Folger’s Crystals used...

This week’s Mono Monday release is the album that helped The Association survive the sophomore slump of 1967’s Renaissance by virtue of one of its singles taking the group to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for the second...

If you thrilled to the sounds of shoegaze in the 1990s, wept when Ride disbanded, and have been treating the possibility of the band ever reuniting like a daydream, then it’s time to smile: guitarist Andy Bell, singer Mark Gardener...

The sound! The legendary track on "McCartney" is "Maybe I'm Amazed." I was immediately enraptured by "Every Night," I came to love "Teddy Boy," but now my favorite is "That Would Be Something." How could an album so slight seem...

When one examines the various sitcoms that have appeared on the TV landscape over the history of the medium, there’s no shortage of stars who found their first taste of fame as stand-up comedians, but there’s really only one who’s...

Nine years ago today, Madonna’s tenth studio release debuted at the top of the UK Albums Chart, making it her ninth chart-topper across the pond and her fifth in a row. The critical reception to Madonna’s previous studio album, 2003’s...