Prince never bothered to worry about which albums were successful, but he remembered his higher-ups saying this classic was bound to fail.

I write about music and the business of music. More than twenty years after their first album, The Black Keys have made the best album of their career with Ohio Players, named in part in tribute ...

It wasn’t just the cover of the Purple One’s shelved 1987 LP ‘The Black Album’ where things got dark. That’s why the majority of The Black Album’s eight tracks are firmly grounded in ...