Music Feature

Once miserable Ron Hawkins didn’t want anything to do with bands. So who are the dudes in the snazzy suits?

For the gainfully employed Influence, making music is a diversion, not a means to an end.

Number One Cup’s Seth Cohen lives to rock another day.

The Slackers fight to keep ska free of pop nonsense.

Akron’s Spawn scours its dark places to make poignant “groovecore.”

His memory jogged by reissues of the Kinks’ mid-1970s albums, Dave Davies looks back at the most peculiar of the British Invasion acts.

For a fleeting moment, Elvis Presley recaptured his raw power and keen instincts. The director of The ’68 Comeback Special takes a fond look back.