Johnny Cash’s Great Lost Albums

By David Fricke | News & Updates February 27, 2013

Cash in 1960. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Five hidden treasures from the country star’s new 63-CD box set

‘Beware of Mr. Baker’: A Documentary about the Genius and Terror of Drummer Ginger Baker

By David Fricke | News & Updates December 06, 2012

After the sweet Searching for Sugar Man, writes David Fricke, the year’s second-best rock doc is its polar opposite: Beware of Mr. Baker

Q&A: Thom Yorke

By David Fricke | News & Updates November 06, 2012

Radiohead’s singer-guitarist on Atoms for Peace’s ‘Mechanistic’ New Album

Q&A: Billie Joe Armstrong on Green Day’s Album Trilogy

By David Fricke | News & Updates June 22, 2012

‘We wanted something punchier, more power pop – somewhere between AC/DC and the early Beatles’

Bob Welch’s Missing Music: The Fleetwood Mac Years

By David Fricke | June 22, 2012

Why a huge period of the band’s musical history was ensconced in Bob’s work

Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball

By David Fricke | Albums, Reviews March 19, 2012

★★★★★ (Columbia) Wrecking Ball is the most despairing, confrontational and musically turbulent album Bruce Springsteen has ever made. He is angry and accusing in these songs, to the point of exhaustion, with grave reason. The America here is a scorched earth: razed by profiteers, and suffering a shameful erosion in truly democratic values and national [...]

New Reviews: Pink Floyd Expand ‘The Wall’

By David Fricke | Albums, Reviews February 29, 2012

Pink Floyd - The Wall The Immersion Edition

Pink Floyd – The Wall: Immersion Edition (4.5/5) Capitol / EMI There was agreement, at first. In the summer of 1978, Roger Waters, Pink Floyd‘s singer-bassist and primary songwriter, presented the other members with two sets of demos and a choice: Pick one for the next album. The rest of the Floyd wisely voted for [...]