Music Archives: 12/2021

Essential Listening: This week’s best new music

Best new music: Nov. 27-Dec. 3

Dec 4, 2021

Eddie Van Halen's favourite guitar riffs of all time

The true story behind Eddie Van Halen’s ‘Beat It’ solo for Michael Jackson

Iconic.

Dec 4, 2021

The National cancel tour dates in Japan after coronavirus outbreak

The National share new song ‘Somebody Desperate’

The National share their ‘Cyrano’ track.

Dec 4, 2021

Tom Morello has a conscious party on 'The Atlas Underground Flood'

Album of the Week: Tom Morello has a conscious party on ‘The Atlas Underground Flood’

Morello takes it easy on his new LP.

Dec 4, 2021

Frank Zappa Casino Fire

Frank Zappa and Deep Purple: 50 years on from the Montreux Casino fire

A terrifying tale.

Dec 4, 2021

Listen to Frank Zappa read a passage from William Burroughs book 'Naked Lunch', 1978

The cult of Frank Zappa: The life and times of the strangest success story in music

A true musical iconoclast.

Dec 4, 2021

Dave Grohl covers Billy Joel for 'The Hanukkah Sessions'

Dave Grohl covers Billy Joel for ‘The Hanukkah Sessions’

Grohl covers Billy Joel.

Dec 4, 2021

Why Noel Gallagher hates Christmas “with a passion”

The worst No-el (sorry).

Dec 4, 2021

Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), Hamburg, Ernst-Merck-Halle, September 1971, Bassist Stu Cook

Every Creedence Clearwater Revival song to hit number two in the charts

CCR never got that number one.

Dec 4, 2021

Listen to The Beatles play ‘Long Tall Sally’ in 1962

Right before the band broke in a big way.

Dec 4, 2021

Enter The Dream House of La Monte Young

Enter The Dream House of La Monte Young: the avant-garde pioneer who inspired The Velvet Underground

“the daddy of us all.”

Dec 3, 2021

This was why George Harrison didn't like being a member of The Beatles

Why George Harrison’s father punched his son’s teacher

“He was a hero”.

Dec 3, 2021