The Kingsmen – “Louie Louie” Originally a 1955 Richard Berry track, The Kingsmen’s hit cover was the subject of an FBI investigation in 1964, triggered by a parent who was upset by the song’s “obscene” lyrics. The FBI’s response was that the song “unintelligible

The music charts are an unpredictable beast. Fergie has three times as many #1 singles as Led Zeppelin, The Who, and the Grateful Dead combined. It’s difficult to dissect why exactly this is, other than the fact that certain artists have no desire to

The Pet Shop Boys will likely write effectively rousing electro-pop until they’re physically unable to. Since 1986, The Pet Shop Boys have released a new album at least once every three or four years, not one lingering dud among their twelve full-lengths. The late

Perhaps more than any other figure in the music industry, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to separate Jay-Z the entrepreneur from Jay-Z the musician, who put out one of the finest hip-hop releases of all-time with Reasonable Doubt and The Blueprint. Since the latter was

Pollstar has released the top grossing tours for the first half of 2013, and Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen and the Rolling Stones have all been shoveling in the money so far this year. The mid-year charts show that Bon Jovi has grossed $142.1 million

British group Editors combine rich elements of post-punk and alternative to create a polished sound ripe for radio placement. With a Mercury Prize nomination for 2005 debut The Back Room and a slew of top 10 singles, Editors have built a nice following, having

Comparable to the lo-fi fuzz of Dirty Beaches, whose nostalgic efforts sound like an apt accompaniment to a drugged-out road trip across America with Hunter S. Thompson and David Lynch, Daughn Gibson’s stylistic arsenal is deeply intoxicating and unwaveringly sincere. One of Gibson’s most