Barbara Schultz

By Barbara Schultz. In our annual look at studio design, we present the most exciting recording studios that opened in the past year

By Barbara Schultz. War’s 1970s classic, “Low Rider,” is a song about a car—one of the coolest, most groove-y, sultry car songs ever, in fact.

By Barbara Schultz. Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark is exceptional among her greatest records as it has her one Top-10 pop hit, “Help Me.”

By Barbara Schultz. You can thank Disco for bringing Frank Zappa to the singles chart in the late 1970s with his first hit, “Dancin’ Fool.”

By Barbara Schultz. Written during a bout of "assisted insomnia," Elvis Costello's "Pump It Up" is a signature song in a career full of many.

He Stopped Loving Her Today: It's the saddest song, and the most mournful voice, and the most histrionic production and the cruelest punchline in the

By Barbara Schultz. "The Tide Is High" may be a cover of The Paragons, but the song is now firmly Blondie's own; here's how it came to be.

By Barbara Schultz. It's one of Elvis' best-known songs, but "Burning Love" nearly wasn't recorded by The King.

By Barbara Schultz. Midnight Oil's “Beds Are Burning” was powerful on every level: musically, politically, sonically, even visually.

Camper Van Beethoven formed in the founding members’ hometown of Redlands, Calif., but it was in their college days, at the University of California at Santa Cruz, that the band began to take off. Camper’s amalgam of punk, ska, country, rock, and international trad folk sounds—all undercut by David Lowery’s sardonic vocal tone—tapped into both […]