“Rediscover the beauty”: two guitarists that changed how Stone Gossard played
Simplicity can be powerful.
Author: Andrew Clayman Archives: 05/2025
The “good things” punk accomplished, according to Tom Petty
“You don’t have to have smoke and lasers.”
The legendary Steely Dan solo Elliott Randall nailed in one take: “They were having trouble”
“…asked me to give it a go.”
The “grungy” Seattle bands that pre-dated grunge
The Pacific Northwest had an ethos dating back to the 1960s.
‘Coffee Blues’: the song that gave The Lovin’ Spoonful their name
As for what Mississippi John Hurt was actually referring to…
‘Jim Cain’: Bill Callahan’s fictional biography of a literary hero
“I just started musing on what little I knew about him.”
‘We Live Again’: the most overlooked Beck song
A tribute to his late uncle Al, an avant-garde artist.
‘Waiting Room’: How Fugazi inspired Tunde Adebimpe to become a musician
“This sounds a little more like how we all feel.”
Sam Mendes’ five favourite songs of all time
“My life has lived out in songs rather than in photographs.”
Sam Cooke once explained the “key to singing”
One of pop music’s greatest vocalists didn’t just rely on his natural gifts.
Jerry Cantrell on the heaviest thing he ever wrote: “The sickest, darkest, most fucked up thing”
A direct request from Layne Staley.