The Four Seasons had a hit with 'Big Girls Don't Cry'; The Who launched a second tour of North America; The Commodores went ...

1984 was a banner year for music in the eighties, and 1985 somehow topped it. Of course, the midway point of the decade didn’t have a Like a Virgin or Purple Rain, but it didn’t need titles like those ...

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From rising stars releasing their debut albums to familiar figures adding to their lengthy catalogue, the 1970s saw it all. Countless albums released during the decade are in conversation to be the ...

Debut albums are an artist’s grand introduction into the music business. Frankly, one could argue that they are single-handedly the most important album of a musician’s career, given that it sets the ...

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. For Rory Gallagher, it was only ever about the music. He was an explosive performer, a riveting ...

Stopgap cash grab by the record company or the result of artist indulgence that can't be contained within the usual confines of a single LP? The double album has been both throughout its long and ...

Members of the Young Dubliners are pictured. The band will perform Saturday at the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts. One of the world’s leading Celtic Rock bands – the Young Dubliners – will perform a ...

Streaming has mutated the album as a format over the past decade, lengthening tracklists, shifting where likely hits get placed, and chipping away at song runtimes. But this year, artists seemed less ...

One major theme that runs through Pitchfork’s best albums of 2024 is disbelief. There are pop albums that defy all expectations, indie rock records that shouldn’t work but do, rap tapes that are made ...

The death of the album has been proclaimed many times, and after decades of piracy and point-and-click listening, cohesive bodies of work have indeed lost some of their cultural stature. Yet the long ...