Suffice to say it’s not been a good year for best-laid plans. On the brighter…
Staff Mixes
I Wish I Was a Spy: A Bond Movie Music Spectacular
Like everyone else in the world, Billie Eilish may be wishing that 2020 had gone…
Sly and the Family Stone: They Still Want to Take You Higher
Fifty years ago this summer, Sly and the Family Stone were melting down amid a…
Caipirinha Time: Cool Brazilian Sounds for Summer
If you’re mixing up a cool Brazilian cocktail to keep you from overheating this summer,…
50 (Mostly) Splendid Years of Sparks
Amid the anxieties of recent times as well as potential concerns about the well-being of…
The Eternal Coolness of ’80s Coming-of-Age-Movie Music
In the 1980s, coming-of-age movies and teen comedies overflowed with hip, contemporary tunes and boasted…
The Versatility of Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone found his way onto the fast track pretty early. Within his first few…
The Stooges’ Fun House at 50
The legend of The Stooges has been documented in every medium possible—books, documentaries, box sets,…
How Los Prisioneros’ ‘Corazones’ Became an Electropop Manifesto
Thirty years ago, Chile returned to democracy after being shackled by the dictatorship of General…
P-Funk Sampled: 50 Years of Freeing Minds and Asses
Fifty years ago, in a true-life science-fiction story wilder than anything concocted by an Area…