“American Pie” is the baby-boom generation’s elegy of choice for the Sixties, a requiem mass for a decade that for Don McLean, the song’s writer and singer, came to a screeching halt sometime around the Summer of Love, just eight years after the tragedy McLean famously proclaimed “The Day the Music Died.” Viewed more than […]

Musician and machine become one in “Cars.” New Wave pioneer Gary Numan’s paranoid-android anthem, a No. 1 hit in the UK in 1979, is a marvel of precision engineering — a chrome-plated vision of a world where technology has transcended humanity, foretelling the Orwellian future hurtling towards us at breakneck speed.  KSID::g9E04KJ0453D

Somewhere along the way, Bob Marley’s Legend was accepted as absolute truth. Legend, the hits collection released three years after the iconic singer’s death, is by leaps and bounds the best-selling reggae album of all time, moving more than 12 million copies in the U.S. and an estimated 25 million copies globally — a perennial […]

“Fade Into You” is a dream-pop lullaby — a fugue-state meditation on love and longing that shimmers with the elusive beauty of a desert mirage. Released to radio in 1994, Mazzy Star’s signature hit really wasn’t a hit at all, falling four spots shy of the Billboard Top 40, but it endures like precious few […]