Add The Who’s Quadrophenia to the list of classic albums getting the box set treatment in 2011 (along with U2′s Achtung Baby, The Beach Boys’ Smile, and a pair from Pink Floyd; Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here.) Quadrophenia, released in 1973, was The Who’s sixth studio album. It’s an ambitious [...]

The Flaming Lips cover of Pink Floyd’s 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon will be released as a download only album on ITunes tomorrow. I’m personally boycotting buying this album because I hate ITunes. AmazonMP3 rules, and they really should have made this available there too. But I’ll still be listening to this one [...]

The follow-up to The Flaming Lips new album, Embryonic, is going to be a cover of Pink Floyd’s 1973 classic album Dark Side of the Moon according to this story from LA Times. Apparently they’ve already finished recording it (with help from a band named Stardeath and White Dwarfs that I don’t know anything about [...]

35 years ago today (October 6, 1973) Cher had her solo second #1 US single with “Half-Breed.” The song also hit #1 in Canada & New Zealand. It was track #3 on her album by the same name. Half-Breed also included covers of Paul McCartney & Wings’ “My Love” and The Beatles’ “The Long and [...]

Goats Head Soup became The Rolling Stones’ 8th UK #1 album on September 22, 1973. The album also reached #1 in the US (on October 13th.) It’s most well known song is the #1 US single (#5 in the UK) “Angie.” While, “Angie” was a big hit and the album did reach #1 in both [...]