-The Irish band, The Undertones, came along in the late ’70s to perform an interesting brand of music. With Feargal Sharkey in the band, and Billy Doherty as drummer, The…

Madness entered the fray of changing music in the late ’70s with an immaculate album based on the developing Jamaican ska renaissance that permeated much of Rock for a bit.…

This Mug has some hot tea in it.

Hard to believe this is Sofia Talvik’s ninth album and I’ve been listening to her for the past eight years, when I wrote about her 2015 release Big Sky Country…

Previously, MusicTAP posted a brief note on the arrival of 45RPM and SACDs from the upcoming 75th Anniversary celebration of Atlantic Records. The list presented then was a partial list…

One of the ’70s fave band, Emerson, Lake & Palmer – or better abbreviated to ELP – were fan darlings who could do no absolute wrong (until their reviled Love…

Johnny Marr first got his footing with The Smiths, where he played for five years before rifts formed between him and Morrissey. Prompted by those, Marr left and played guitars…

And then the Jann bomb went off.

Gong has long provided the world of Psychedelic Music with a steady dose of psych space music. But the story of Gong expands into the far reaches with a broad…

Joe Strummer is best known for his time with The Clash. But after The Clash disintegrated, Strummer released a Clash album (with only himself from the classic band) that only…

Smoke Fairies are Katherine Blamire, and Jessica Davies. They met in school in the UK, and with a string of extraordinary opportunities that include an opening set on tour with…

R.E.M. were a critical success beginning in their IRS Records days where they produced five ‘out of the gate’ classic sets. All of the five were Gold except their last…