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5 Surprising Facts About The Sex Pistols’ ‘Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols’

One album. One band. One year that changed everything. The Sex Pistols only ever made one studio album, and the story of how ‘Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols’ got m...

5 Surprisings Facts About Joni Mitchell’s ‘The Hissing Of Summer Lawns’

There are albums that define a moment, and then there are albums that define an artist. Joni Mitchell’s seventh studio record, ‘The Hissing of Summer Lawns’, released in November 1...

5 Surprising Facts About John Martyn’s ‘One World’

Most people know ‘One World’ as the album that helped invent trip hop before anyone had a name for it. What they don’t know is how it actually got made. Speakers on a punt. Geese o...

5 Surprising Facts About The Modern Lovers’ Self-Titled Debut Album

Here’s a record that technically shouldn’t exist. The Modern Lovers’ self-titled debut was released in August 1976, but the tracks on it were recorded in 1971 and 1972, shelved by...

5 Surprising Facts About Boston’s ‘Boston’

Tom Scholz recorded one of the best-selling debut albums in rock history in a flooded basement next to a furnace, on equipment he built himself, while lying to a major record label...

20 Unsettling Music Facts You May Not Have Known

The music industry is full of stories that go far beyond what listeners hear streamed or on the radio. Behind many famous songs and artists are real events that are far more unsett...

5 Surprising Facts About Iggy Pop’s ‘Lust For Life’

If you know Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life,” you probably know it from a cruise ship commercial, a Trainspotting montage, or that moment someone plays it at a party and everyone suddenl...

5 Surprising Facts About Keith Jarrett’s ‘The Köln Concert’

Nobody planned for ‘The Köln Concert’ to be anything. No grand artistic vision. No carefully curated setlist. No moment of inspiration in a candlelit studio. Just a broken-down reh...

5 Surprising Facts About Joni Mitchell’s ‘Hejira’

She drove across America in a red wig and sunglasses, told strangers her name was Charlene Latimer or Joan Black, traveled without a driver’s licence, and stayed behind truckers so...

5 Surprising Facts About ABBA’s ‘Arrival’

“Dancing Queen” started as a song called “Boogaloo.” “Money, Money, Money” was once “Gypsy Girl.” The album’s title track is an instrumental that almost didn’t exist. And the whole...

5 Surprising Facts About The Clash’s Self-Titled Debut Album

Released on April 8, 1977, The Clash’s self-titled debut cost £4,000, took three weeks to record, and arrived at the exact moment British punk was detonating everything that came b...

19 Live Albums That Take You There

There is a version of every great band that only exists in a room, on a night, in front of people. The studio record is a document of intention. The live record, when it’s done rig...

5 Surprising Facts About Iggy Pop’s ‘The Idiot’

David Bowie called Iggy Pop a guinea pig. Pop called the album his “album of freedom.” One critic called it “a funky, robotic Hellhole.” Whoever was right, ‘The Idiot’ is one of th...

5 Famous Albums Recorded During Band Meltdowns

From The Beatles to Oasis, these bands experienced a lot of drama behind the scenes while recording some of their most famous albums.

3 Famous Rock Album Covers You Didn’t Know Referenced Other Album Covers

5 Surprising Facts About Big Star’s ‘Third’

There are albums that arrive too late, sound too strange, and carry too much personal wreckage to find their audience right away. Big Star’s ‘Third’ is the definitive example. Reco...

8 Famous Albums Recorded in Less Than a Week

From the Beatles' debut to the album that transformed Bob Dylan's career, these albums were all recorded quickly—but remain immortal.

35 Double Albums That Matter

When twice the amount of music really matters. Continue reading…

Ten Songs Nobody Ever Skips (And Why That Says Everything)

We live in the age of the skip. The average listener decides whether a song is worth their time in the first seven seconds, streaming platforms are designed around the assumption t...

Let It Be Known: These Beatles Facts Are Genuinely Unbelievable

The Surprising Stories Behind Nine Of Your Favorite Beatles Songs

You may know classic Beatles songs like "Hey Jude" or "Yesterday" by heart, but you'll still be surprised to learn the incredible stories behind how they were written. The post The...

Here’s What Each of The Beatles Considered Their Favorite Album

Each of The Beatles had or has a favorite album from the Fab Four's heyday. A couple of their answers might just surprise you. The post

3 Albums That Divided Fans When They Were Released (But They’re Classics Today)

Some raved about these albums, while others hated...

Lost treasures: Ten cult classic albums worth scouring second-hand record stores for

From groundbreaking psychedelia to lost folk and good-time boogie, here are ten albums truly worth stumbling across