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Ray Davies Rails Against Hop Farm Festival Organisers and Bands

Ray Davies vented his frustrations on stage to 30,000 people on Saturday, July 3, after organisers ... Read More »

Ray Davies Pays Tribute to Late Kinks Bassist Pete Quaife at Glastonbury

Ray Davies' position as a national treasure has long been confirmed, thanks to the poignancy and the ... Read More »

Kinks Co-Founder and Former Bassist Pete Quaife Dies

Original Kinks bassist and band co-founder Pete Quaife has died at the age of 66 -- the cause of ... Read More »

Outing Gay Songs: 20 Tunes With Homosexual Subtexts

For many fabulous folks around the globe, June is Pride Month, when queers of all ... Read More »

Rock 'n' Roll Spelling Bee: S-O-N-G-S That Have Us Spellbound

Let's face it: Spelling bee champs aren't likely to become rock stars. Yet every now and then a rock ... Read More »

The Kinks Survive a US Ban and Brotherly Hate, Up to a Point -- Twisted Tales

In Boston Globe reporter Geoff Edgers's new documentary 'Do It Again,' celebrity Kinks fans ... Read More »

Ray Davies and Jackson Browne Added to Glastonbury Line-Up

After the blogosphere went into a combination of meltdown and hilarity following the news that ... Read More »

The Kinks to Release Unheard Songs on New Album

Mick Avory, longtime drummer for seminal British rock group the Kinks has reconfirmed that they will ... Read More »

15 Bands That Got Banned

It takes a special kind of person to get banned from, say, a pub or a nightclub. We've all have a ... Read More »

Woodpigeon Album Inspired by Emigré Grandparents

Listening to Calgary indie ensemble Woodpigeon, you'd never get the sense that songwriting was ... Read More »

Supergrass' New Album Takes Inspiration from Beatles and Krautrock

Supergrass, who are currently in the studio working on a follow-up to 2008's 'Diamond Hoo Ha', have ... Read More »

Chrissie Hynde Promises 'Incredible' Solo Album

Chrissie Hynde is making some tall promises -- the Pretenders frontwoman says she is working on her ... Read More »

10 Bands We Want to See Re-form in 2010

Blur, Public Image Ltd., Mott the Hoople, Faith No More and, yes, even Wang Chung are just some of ... Read More »

Ray Davies' Kinks Musical Scrapped

'Come Dancing,' a musical written and fronted by Kinks lead singer Ray Davies has been scrapped from ... Read More »

Bands With Brothers: From Love -- to Love to Hate

As Cain and Abel could tell you, it ain't always easy for famous siblings to get along. Between ... Read More »

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Richard Curtis Discuss 'Pirate Radio' -- Exclusive Video

Richard Curtis' new film 'Pirate Radio' tells the story of a group of rock 'n' roll rebels who ... Read More »