The Kinks‘ chief songwriter Ray Davies always seemed to be a bit out of step with the prevailing trends in the world of rock and roll, which is part of why his band’s music stood out from the pack. On ...

The Kinks could get it done in many different ways when it came to their albums. They could give you one where every song played into some all-encompassing theme. Or they could simply deliver a ...

Ray Davies and his younger brother Dave began gigging around North London as teenagers, playing with other future stars such as Rod Stewart and Charlie Watts before settling into a quartet called the ...

Best Rock Christmas Songs bracket. The Kinks, the Pretenders, Bruce Springsteen and of course, both Paul McCartney and John ...

When Van Halen recorded You Really Got Me, they took a beloved Kinks song and gave it a raw, heavy edge that helped define ...

“There was The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Who and The Kinks,” says Arnold Engelman, the New York producer who has been pursuing the story of the last band on that list for some 20 years. “And ...