Cyndi Lauper is celebrating the 35th anniversary of her iconic sophomore album, True Colors, which came out on October 14th, 1986. And to mark the occasion, she’s dropping a new expanded digital version at midnight Friday, featuring two bonus tracks: Junior Vasquez’s remix of the title track, a Number One …
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Discogs, the bottomless music reference site and music marketplace, has released a list of the 100 most expensive records sold on its platform, and the Number One sale is a fittingly obscure one: a special 12-inch promo vinyl released by the British DJ Scaramanga Silk. Scaramanga Silk’s 2008 self-released debut, …
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Each month, the editors and critics at Rolling Stone compile a list of our favorite new albums. Our picks for September include the final LP from late reggae legend Toots Hibbert, a synth-pop stunner from Sad13, protest songs from Neil Young, and reissues of albums by Prince, the Rolling Stones, …
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“Prince was like nobody I had ever worked with before,” says one of his longtime recording engineers, Peggy McCreary. “He never explained anything to me. You never knew who a song was for until somebody got called in to sing on it.” McCreary, whose credits also include monolithic albums like …
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