Looking for solace in troubled times, Beck’s ‘Hyperspace’ album finds him channelling personal despair into something universal.
A psycho-sexual drama charting obsession and a descent into madness, ‘L’Homme À Tête De Chou’ remains one of Serge Gainsbourg’s finest concept albums.
The fourth Wu-Tang Clan solo album, ‘Liquid Swords’ is an out-and-out masterpiece.
Showing that the American roots music dubbed ‘Americana’ had infiltrated almost every type of music, reDiscover Johnny Cash’s ‘American II: Unchained’.
‘Beastie Boys Book’ is one of the most open, honest and thoughtful memoirs in recent memory. Here are 15 Beastie Boys facts we learned from reading it.
‘Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg’ documented Serge's early infatuation with Jane Birkin, and contained the infamous single, ‘J’Taime… Moi Non Plus.’
In 1964, Serge Gainsbourg released ‘Gainsbourg Percussions,’ an audacious Afro-Cuban jazz album with no precedent in French music.
Taking industrial music into the mainstream, Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Pretty Hate Machine’ remains an uncompromising, genre-defining album.
As well as creating their own classics, the group had a knack for reinventing other people’s songs, as our playlist shows.
Os Mutantes’ self-titled debut album was a glorious collision of styles that defined the Tropicália movement in 1968.
Part-recorded live in 1975, Frank Zappa’s ‘Bongo Fury’ saw Captain Beefheart join the celebrated Mothers Of Invention on tour for a unique pairing.
After receiving just one play, at 4am in the morning, Guns N Roses’ ‘Welcome To The Jungle’ video caused a meltdown at MTV and made the group overnight stars.
Who were the women on the Roxy Music album covers? We reveal the full stories behind the artworks that remain iconic to this day.
The self-titled second album by The Band honed everything from ‘Music From Big Pink’ with deft performances and an innate knack for storytelling.
After releasing ‘Ice Cream For Crow’, Captain Beefheart retired from music-making in order to channel his creativity through painting.
