The Kinks' catalog is teeming with brilliant songs. These four standouts might have eluded you the first time around.

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 ...

For a song that’s two minutes and change in length, “You Really Got Me” has kept guitarists entertained for decades with stories about its creation and recording. The 1964 Kinks classic rose to the ...

The choir sang seven numbers from the album Arthur, a semi-autobiographical story of the Davies family. It is an evocation of the story of Britain, starting with “Victoria”, with the audience invited ...

The Kinks' frontman Ray Davies has named the song that he doesn't enjoy being compared to The Beatles. It is not unusual for the two bands to be compared, given that they were both making music around ...

When diversity box-checking outweighs musical greatness, the Kinks get buried and King Diversity takes the throne.

Shel Talmy, the influential rock producer who cut such classics as The Kinks‘ “You Really Got Me” and “Waterloo Sunset” and The Who‘s “My Generation” and “I Can’t Explain,” died during Wednesday at ...