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I n the late 1970s, many of music’s top tastemakers felt sure Garland Jeffreys would become the next big thing. Rolling Stone named him the “most promising artist” of 1977. The prestigious PBS program Soundstage predicted he would become “the next performer to lay claim to superstardom.” And powerful radio …

For years, people told Adam Duritz not to bother releasing full albums, that “nobody wants to listen to ’em anymore.” So he released Counting Crows‘ most ambitious music ever —an interlocked, glam-rock-infused four-song sequence — as an EP, 2021’s Butter Miracle, Suite One. “But I found that there was a …

Driven by dubious metrics, fumbling with clearly baked-in blind spots and biases, in recurring corrective mode (see Sister Rosetta Tharpe) when it musters the will, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is always missing much of the real action in its attempts to canonize music that, if it sticks …

Herbie Flowers, the bassist who played on songs like Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” and David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” has died at the age of 86. Flowers’ September 5 death was confirmed on social media by the bassist’s family members (via the Guardian); no cause of death was …

If Brat Summer has taught us anything, it’s that Charli XCX is always full of surprises. This just in: She wants to make a Lou Reed record. In a cover story with Billboard, the pop star contemplated the future of her career and what it would be like if Brat …