By Noah Mallin Here’s the last installment of our survey featuring 1968′s best albums.11) The Kinks – Village Green Preservation SocietyThe Kinks were one of The Beatles most serious rivals in 1964, with singer Ray Davies capable of writing more and better songs than the Stones still nascent Jagger-Richards combo. By 1968 a dispute with [...]
By Noah Mallin Continuing on our trip 40 years back into the tumultuous past, here is part one of the best albums of 1968 in no order whatsoever.1) Aretha Franklin – Lady SoulMost soul albums at this time were collections of big hit singles with lesser tracks sprinkled in as filler. A few performers were [...]
This was a good year for the facial hair accessory known as the moustache, at least in pop culture terms. Josh Brolin sported a nice model in No Country For Old Men and Daniel Day Lewis had a beautiful lip blanket in There Will Be Blood. Here, presented for your approval, are some of the [...]
The new issue of beardie-loving music mag Magnet has a column by Corey DuBrowa on the sophmore slump — second albums that fail to live up to the promise of the first. This is a fairly common trope in rock criticism and has some basis in truth. One theory holds that most artists spend years [...]
Here in the United States it is President’s Day, which celebrates the merging of two President’s birthdays into one day that is neither of their actual birthdays but which meets the goal of maximum productivity by minimizing excess holidays and placing them, whenever possible, on a Monday. With that kind of patriotic ferver in mind [...]
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