David Gilmour has never been shy about Pink Floyd’s missteps, and three albums in particular remain sources of regret ...
From R.E.M. to The Smiths, college radio defined a parallel 1980s chart where emotion, noise and invention mattered most ...
Academy of Ancient Music director Laurence Cummings selects five masterpieces written by composers late in life ...
There’s a peculiar danger in leaving a great rock band: you might discover that the magic didn’t belong entirely to you. Some musicians walked away from hugely successful groups convinced they could ...
From synth-heavy alter egos to symphonies played on wine glasses, we explore the greatest albums that were recorded but ...
From supergroups to side projects, these 13 rock spin-offs show just how badly things can go when legends leave the ...
From psychedelic pioneers to punk innovators, these 15 great American bands deserve to be rediscovered – and remembered ...
Whether thwarted by crooked managers, catastrophic timing or financial naïvety, these rock bands never landed the greatness ...
This month, BBC Radio 3 presents Where the Light Sings, a 12-hour broadcasting marathon from lighthouses around the UK.
The story of rock is littered with casualties. These 6 acts ignored, embraced or outlasted every trend – and are still ...
Jim Sullivan drove into the New Mexico desert in 1975 and simply disappeared. It’s one of rock’s most haunting cold cases ...
From gnomes and techno oddities to spoken-word sermons and Vietnam protests, these unlikely songs somehow became massive ...
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