music

A personal look at Daniel Bukszpan’s Heavy Metal’s Big Four, exploring the music, rivalries and underground culture behind Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax.

Why was The Transformers: The Movie soundtrack so unusual? From Stan Bush and Weird Al to Orson Welles, its strange mix still works 40 years later.

The 8-track tape ruled car stereos before cassettes killed it, but its strange legacy lives on in mixtapes, video-game cartridges and collectors.

Rhino’s Rocktober gives Arthur Lee and Love another spin with three limited-edition albums, but the real Love story begins with Forever Changes.

We killed the CD, dumped the evidence and moved on. Vinyl is growing, CDs are surging and a new generation is discovering the music we thought we’d left buried.

Vince Guaraldi’s It’s a Mystery, Charlie Brown finally gets a complete soundtrack release, revealing a funky, electric side of his Peanuts music.

Angine de Poitrine is a wonderfully strange Quebec math-rock duo. Now their bizarre music and costumes have inspired an equally bizarre LEGO tribute.

Long before Little House on the Prairie, Charlotte Stewart became friends with Jim Morrison and spent four unforgettable days travelling California’s coast with him.

I thought Columbia House disappeared years ago. Turns out, the penny-deal music club somehow survived, taking us from K-Tel records and CDs to DVDs and streaming.

After more than three decades apart, Ritchie Blackmore returned to the Deep Purple stage at Jones Beach to play ‘Smoke on the Water’ with Ian Gillan.

See why the Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique remains a landmark in sampling, and how the Dust Brothers transformed familiar records into musical history.

How the original 1967 Spider-Man series used jazz, Library Music, and imagination to become one of television’s most unforgettable cartoons.