Matt Mitchell

Rust Never Sleeps is a picture-perfect Neil Young album because—when you scale back its emotional currency—it showcases the two sides of him we know and adore best.

Van Halen very well endures as one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll debuts of all time—a puzzling truth now, given how maligned the initial critical reception was.

Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd is the greatest Southern rock album not recorded at a venue on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Listening to The Beach Boys Today! from front to back ... is a measure of hearing a maestro slowly glean confidence from his own deep-bellied grandeur. It’s a materialization of rock ‘n’ roll matrimony between trenchant, emotive back-end ballads and ambitious, marketable and sophisticated singles—arriving like a radical abandonment and a once-in-a-lifetime awakening.