In his November 1969 Rolling Stone review, Greil Marcus brought contemporary context. “Less ambitious than Tommy, and far more musical – no fillers, no waste tracks, not a matter of ideas but of ...

With Cranes jazz soaked keys to the fore, and Theaker coping admirably with the constant time shifts, and Browns whole persona leaping from your speakers, this is an album whose place in history is ...

The Kinks groundbreaking 1969 LP Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) is being re-released on October 25th as a four-disc deluxe edition to commemorate the album’s 50th anniversary.

Prune away at least four soporific ballads, though, and you’ll find a decent pop-soul album; the insincerity of previous releases replaced with often gut-wrenching takes on broken relationships and ...

If I were forced to subscribe to any wild theory circulating on the Internet right now (we won’t say the c-word), it wouldn’t be about lizard people, a flat Earth, anything “secretly staged by crisis ...

The avant-garde pop genius Arthur Russell worked in obscurity for most of his too-short career. He died of complications from AIDS in 1992, at the age of 40. About a decade after his death, Russell’s ...

The music of Boston composer Arthur Levering features a wonderful blend of rhythmic vitality, instrumental color and expressive urgency - and this new compilation disc offers as good an introduction ...

For Brooklyn-based songwriter Joseph Arthur, there is no shortage of inspiration or means of expression when it comes to art. Some days you'll find him painting, but lately he's concentrated on a new ...

When Arthur Russell died in 1992 at the age of 40, he had put out a fluid album of improvisational dance music, two albums of orchestral work, a clutch of club tracks under the names Loose Joints and ...

Robert Arthur, the music director for “The Ed Sullivan Show” from the 1950s through the ’70s, died on Jan. 21. He was 89. A Long Island native, Arthur graduated from Colgate University with degrees in ...

Robert Arthur, the music director for “The Ed Sullivan Show” from the 1950s through the ’70s, died on Jan. 21. He was 89. A Long Island native, Arthur graduated from Colgate University with degrees in ...