Sir Paul McCartney, known first and foremost for his role as a knight by those obsessed with British nobility, was also a member of a band called the Beatles as the other 99.9% of the world knows. When the band broke up—a bit like the disbanding of the Knights of the Round Table, perhaps—Paul set […]

For many of us, this album needs no introduction. But for the rest, allow us to present Crosby, Stills & Nash’s 1969 self-titled debut release (Atlantic Records). The first track is “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” (the love song to Judy Collins). Imagine putting a 7 ½ minute song first on an album today? Maybe if […]

Saturday March 1st is fast approaching. Get your tickets now for what may be our best show yet: The Talking Heads’ 1983 release, Speaking in Tongues (boasting their biggest hit ever “Burning Down the House.”) This show is at The Goat Farm, Atlanta’s coolest art an performance space. And we’ll be featuring Athens’ band Reptar […]

Put on your black frames and check this out: on July 19th at Vinyl (Center Stage), we’re taking our first crack at the great Elvis Costello, presenting his amazing 1978 release This Year’s Model. If you’re unfamiliar, let us familiarize you. Start here, Rolling Stone ranked it the 11th best album between 1967 and 1987. […]

Even though MTV eventually called the “Thriller” video the greatest music video of all time, it didn’t win Video of the Year at the VMAS. The Cars’ video for “You Might Think” got the honors. Brush up on your moves before our Halloween extravaganzas at Aisle 5. We’ve got Thriller top to bottom for you […]

Ring the bells and hang the mistletoe, Collective. It’s that time again. There are a lot of great Christmas albums out there, with many a classic (and roasted) chestnut. But we’re keeping Nat King Cole and the Bing Crosby and the Harry Connick on the shelf this season. Instead, we’re spinning the Godfather himself. Mr. […]

Welcome to Grace, the only studio album ever recorded by Jeff Buckley. Recorded at Bearsville in Woodstock, New York, and released on Columbia Records August 23rd, 1994, Grace has attained legendary status since Buckley drowned in 1997. It was a bold debut from the son of folk singer Tim Buckley, full of involved arrangements and […]

It’s hard to remember it now, but in the early 80s, Paul Simon’s career and personal life had hit a low. His 1983 Hearts and Bones didn’t sell well and his marriage fell apart. A bootleg cassette of South African township music would ultimately lift him out of his depression and right his career. The […]

In the spring of 1962 America was still deep in the throes of segregation. Country music was an exclusively white man’s game; R&B music was black, and never the twain shall meet. But in April of that year, Ray Charles released Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music and tore down a number of those […]

Welcome to the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Are You Experienced, perhaps the greatest debut album in rock history, containing some of Hendrix’s best known songs (“Purple Haze,” “Foxy Lady,” “The Wind Cries Mary” and his version of the Billy Robertson song “Hey Joe”). Recorded over five months and in three London studios, the album was released […]