Album

    The Screaming and the Silence: How King Crimson’s Debut Set the Terms for Progressive Rock

    Fifty-plus years on, King Crimson’s debut remains the most complete and unsettling argument for what progressive rock could — and should — be.

    Electric Silence: Miles Davis and the Record That Invented Ambient

    In a Silent Way didn’t announce the future — it breathed it into existence, note by careful note.

    Blood Sugar Sex Magik at the Edge of Everything: How the Chili Peppers Made Their Masterpiece and Nearly Broke Apart Making It

    Rick Rubin, a haunted mansion, and the album that turned Los Angeles inside out.