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 …
Read More »A 12-Inch From an Obscure British DJ Is Now the Most Expensive Record Sold on Discogs
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, …
Read More »Best Albums of September 2020: Alicia Keys, Neil Young, Toots and the Maytals, and More
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, …
Read More »Prince's Unearthed 'Originals': Collaborators Look Back on the Hits He Passed Along
“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 …
Read More »Prince Death Investigation Closed With No Criminal Charges Filed
Carver County Attorney Mark Metz announced on Thursday that he would close his investigation into the death of Princewithout filing any criminal charges. “For the past two years, law enforcement… has conducted an extensive, painstaking and thorough investigation into Prince‘s death,” he said during a press conference. “That investigation determined …
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