the kinks
News: Pure Noise Records & Pabst Blue Ribbon present ”Dead Formats Volume 2
Pure Noise Records and Pabst Blue Ribbon have teamed up again to present ‘Dead Formats Volume 2’, a 15-track compilation featuring the Pure Noise Records roster sharing their takes on classic songs from Elton John, New Radicals, The Kinks and scene favourites Taking Back Sunday and more. Watch the video from the UK’s The Chisel, covering Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting) by Elton …
TRACK: The Kinks announce 50th anniversary reissue of ‘Lola vs. Powerman …’ – hear new track, ‘Any Time 2020’
THE KINKS’ eighth studio album, Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One, is just celebrating its half-century … a scary thought. A concept album without the twiddly bits, but stuffed with classic songs such as “Lola”, “Get Back In Line” and “Apeman”, it followed 1968’s The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society and …
Album Review: Tim Burgess – I Love The New Sky
If it wan’t enough that Tim Burgess fronts one of the most beloved, successful and long lasting indie bands The Charlatans, or that he has singularly redefined music in the COVID-19 age of isolation through his now legendary twitter parties, Burgess has now released an absolutely stunning solo album. And let’s get one thing straight, …
Not Forgotten: The Kinks – The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
As unfeasible as it seems, there was once a time when the singles chart was of equal importance to the album chart. Actually, no, it was more important. In the first decade of rock’n’roll, the single was king. Admittedly in the 60s The Beatles were masters of the pop single, but the fight for the …
Not Forgotten: Ray Davies – The Storyteller
The rock star’s autobiography is big business these days, but rarely are they as revelatory, or as informative as they could be and even rarer do they actually make for enlightening reading. There are, of course, honourable exceptions. Indeed, both volumes of Julian Cope’s autobiography are wildly entertaining (whether you are actually a fan of …