Today (June 21) marks the 80th birthday of Ray Davies, best known as the longtime frontman of The Kinks. During his band’s 30-year career, the insightful and prolific singer/songwriter composed dozens ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shel Talmy, the American record producer who helped foment the British Invasion by capturing the scabrous guitar riff in the Kinks’ “You Really Got Me” and Roger Daltrey’s stuttering vocal line in the ...

The Kinks were heading into uncharted territory in the Sixties. The London rockers blew up in the early days of the British invasion, topping the charts with violently rowdy bangers like “You Really ...

The Kinks' "The Journey - Part 3" compiles their greatest hits from the '70s and '80s. The band shifted from conceptual works to a harder rock sound, achieving renewed commercial success. Conflicts ...

The Kinks, the iconic English rock band that rocked the 1960s, has a name origin story that some fans might not know. The band, formed in Muswell Hill, north London in 1963, consisted of brothers Ray ...

The sound is unmistakable. A barre chord slices through the speakers, the guitar edging into distortion. The snare kicks in and kicks you over, each hit growling like a ’69 GTO. These are the songs: ...

The Kinks in 1968 (photo: Hulton Archive / Getty Images). Ray Davies and his younger brother Dave began gigging around North London as teenagers, playing with other future stars such as Rod Stewart ...

Dave Davies looks back fondly on the era captured in a new collection of the greatest hits the Kinks released after signing to Arista Records in the ‘70s. “The Journey – Part 3” comes out July 11, ...