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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...