Dan Epstein has written about music, pop culture and baseball for nearly 30 years, because that’s the stuff he loves the most. His work has appeared in Revolver, Guitar World, Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times and many other publications. He is the author of 2010’s Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ‘70s. His all-time favorite album is 3+3 by The Isley Brothers.
Lee Fields doesn’t mess around. On Faithful Man, his first album si… more »
As with its predecessor, 1987′s A Momentary Lapse of Reason, 1994… more »
With their melancholy melodies and bright guitar jangle, the Jigsaw Seen… more »
Though Charles “Packy” Axton’s name means little to mos… more »
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »
Though it’s rarely mentioned in the same breath as Marvin Gaye… more »
A tragically unsung (and just plain tragic) hero of Memphis soul, sax-swi… more »
If Pink Floyd hadn’t existed, rock historians would have had to inv… more »
If 1983's The Final Cut was a Roger Waters solo album in all but name… more »
Honed to absolute perfection over a year of live gigs and recording sessi… more »
Though they began with a rather lengthy and unpromising series of studio … more »
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios at the same time the Beatles were working … more »
For their 1975 follow-up to the blockbuster Dark Side of the Moon, Pink F… more »
After three straight concept albums, Roger Waters upped the ante even fur… more »
For their 1975 follow-up to the blockbuster Dark Side of the Moon, Pink F… more »
Though long since disowned by Roger Waters and David Gilmour, 1970's … more »
After three straight concept albums, Roger Waters upped the ante even fur… more »
While Syd Barrett's untimely exit thwarted the band's continued a… more »
In the midst of work on what would become Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Flo… more »
Pink Floyd's fourth album — their first to land in the U.S. Top… more »
The only album to feature songwriting and instrumental contributions from… more »
If anyone thought Roger Waters would lighten up a bit following The Wall… more »
Released in early 1977, just as the U.K. punk movement was kicking into h… more »
There's something wonderfully imperturbable about the organ playing o… more »
As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »
