Rob Smith

How could something this awesome escape the attention of a wider audience? Because he hates it.

These tracks changed the game for hard rock in 1983.

Carlos Santana & Co. have been supernatural musical shape-shifters for 26 albums. Here's how those records rank.

Companion to the Robin Williams film is a great snapshot of mid-'60s radio.

Chrysalis Records took an approach with her career that was all too typical at the time.

For perhaps the first time, it sounded like his guitar was fighting to be heard.

Dave Grohl and company stretched what Foo Fighters' music could sound like on their sixth album.

Classic song reached only No. 24 on the U.K. chart and failed to chart at all in the U.S.

Former Raspberries frontman discusses difficult birth of 'Boats Against the Current.'

Sometimes, to amp up a song, you have to pare things back.

Song sounded like all was well with the band, but disaster was just around the corner.

Final statement from the band's original incarnation contains a little of everything that made them so engaging.