“Summer Babe (Winter Version),” the opening track from Pavement’s unfathomably influential 1992 debut album Slanted And Enchanted, is one of the greatest and most iconic indie rock songs of all time. Call it hyperbole if you wish, but if you needed me to define “What is indie rock?” I might point...

Back in 1979, a mysterious singer by the name of Noël released a disco album called Is There More To Life Than Dancing? It was entirely written and produced by brothers Ron and Russell Mael, otherwise known as the cult-beloved pop band Sparks, just after Sparks teamed with disco overlord Giorgio Moroder on their own dance pivot No. 1 In Heaven.

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In the late ’80s, the late Johnny Cash, a mythic figure in the annals of country music, was dropped from his contract at longtime home Columbia Records. From there, Cash went to Mercury, but that deal didn’t last long. For a little while in the ’90s, Johnny Cash was without a label. Then he signed to Rick Rubin&...

Elton John’s album Caribou turns 50 years old this summer. He’s celebrating with a deluxe reissue to be released this Saturday for Record Store Day, which will include the previously unreleased outtake “Ducktail Jiver.” As part of the rollout for that project, Sir Elton has released footage of his first li...