American Songwriter

4 Underappreciated Songs Written and Sung by The Kinks’ Famed Guitarist Dave Davies

Here are four underappreciated songs written and sung by Kinks guitarist Dave Davies in honor of his birthday.
collider

Van Halen’s Cover of This Classic Song Became Way Bigger Than the Original

Tehuan Harris is a news and features journalist at Collider, reporting and writing about all things music and reality TV (sometimes). She is a talented journalist and a natural storyteller who writes ...
Los Angeles Times

The Kinks’ Ray Davies on the song he wants played at his funeral

Since the 1980s, Ray Davies has intermittently led a seminar for aspiring songwriters through England’s Arvon Foundation — a side hustle he landed, of course, as a result of the dozens of classic ...
Chicago Tribune

‘Sunny Afternoon’ opens soon at Chicago Shakes, telling the chaotic story of Ray Davies and The Kinks

“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 ...