Ray Davies Concert Disrupted by Security

An old Kinks tradition of throwing paper plates onto the stage with song requests written on them ... Read More »

Ray Davies Reinterprets the Kinks on 'Choral Collection'

There were a couple of guiding factors when Ray Davies decided to re-cast several Kinks pop gems for ... Read More »

Ray Davies Concerned by Simon Cowell's Influence

After four decades of writing hits, Kinks frontman Ray Davies continues to rejuvenate the art of ... Read More »

Closing Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert Features U2 and Friends

"We're gonna try something dangerous and special," Bono said halfway through U2's closing set on the ... Read More »

Acclaimed Session Drummer Bobby Graham Dies at 69

Drummer Bobby Graham, who played on an estimated 15,000 albums and 107 Top 50 Hits, 13 of which ... Read More »

Yo La Tengo Make It 25 Years Without Killing Anyone

These days, a band lasting for twenty-five years seems ludicrous. But it is indeed what Yo La Tengo ... Read More »

Locksley Work Out the Kinks With Ray Davies

Locksley have learned never to say never. The garage rockers are opening for Kinks frontman Ray ... Read More »

Bjork Cancels Gig + More

Bjork has canceled her headlining July 5 concert at England's Wild in the Country Festival, ... Read More »

The Kinks' Ray Davies Serves Up Songs at the 'Working Man's Cafe'

Talking with Ray Davies is like "Songwriting 101," as you will read below. There's a reason, or ... Read More »

Dave Davies Shoots Down Kinks Reunion

Last month, Ray Davies told the UK's Daily Mail that the original members of the Kinks would ... Read More »

Ray Davies Gives New Album Away in Sunday Paper

Just on the heels of Dangerbird and Radiohead's generous release strategy last week, Ray Davies, ... Read More »

20 Bitter Band Breakups: The Kinks

The Kinks Ray Davies' first attempt, in 1973, to announce the band's breakup fails – the ... Read More »

Rockin' Gay Moments: No. 14

Classic Rock -- What a Drag "Girls will be boys and boys will be girls/It's a mixed-up ... world." ... Read More »

Rockin' Gay Moments: No. 10

Glad to Be Gay British songwriter Tom Robinson, onetime Ray Davies disciple and future Elton John ... Read More »

To Sirs, With Love: Ray Davies

Commander Raymond Douglas Davies Admitted: 2004 One week after entering the Order, the Kinks ... Read More »