The Shirelles – Everybody Loves a Lover (1966)
The needle drops. Not on the familiar, bubblegum-pink world of the early sixties, but somewhere deeper, wider. It’s late 1966,…
The needle drops. Not on the familiar, bubblegum-pink world of the early sixties, but somewhere deeper, wider. It’s late 1966,…
The air in the café was thick and sweet, smelling of old paperbacks and chicory coffee. It was late, maybe…
The needle drops, and before the bassline can even suggest a rhythm, the mind is elsewhere. It’s 1965, the air…
The cassette deck of my beat-up car always seemed to know when I needed a sermon in soul. It wasn’t…
The glamour of the ’70s country-pop machine could often feel blinding. Picture the man—Glen Campbell—the television host, the golden-voiced conduit…
The memory is as sharp and resonant as the downbeat of a D-chord on a nylon string. It was late,…
The air in the listening room tonight is thick with a particular kind of regret—the comfortable, self-aware kind. The kind…
To appreciate “In My Room,” you must first understand the ground it broke. Released in 1963 on The Beach Boys’…
It is the hour of the radio dial when the signal thins, bleeding out into the late-night static, and only…
The late 1970s were a time of sonic upheaval. Disco was peaking, punk was spitting, and the meticulously constructed machinery…