Made with bodies fashioned in the U.S., KAPA brand guitars employed necks, electronics and hardware from a range of overseas ...

What happens when you build your life — and your friendships — around a band that can’t keep it together forever.

Ray Davies was the singer-songwriter of The Kinks’ first hit, but it was kid brother Dave Davies who created its fuzzed-up ...

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Fan-shot video captured The Who’s Roger Daltrey covering a 1960s Kinks gem at a recent solo concert while being heckled by a ...

In fact, Dylan proved so influential on Ray Davies and the gang that his album Bringing It All Back Home became an unavoidable influence when crafting their legendary anthem, ‘Sunny Afternoon’. As you ...

And while I understand the importance of protecting one’s hearing (and urge everyone to do so), for me, muffling The Kinks' raw rock 'n' roll with its deliciously distorted lead guitar would ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Kinks were an electrifying group that exploded ... No one ever heard a guitar sound like that; they slashed their amp. We do it in the show to get that distorted guitar ...

on his 13th birthday—right after she gave him his first electric guitar. (Rene, who had a congenital heart problem, died of a heart attack at London’s Lyceum Ballroom in 1957. The 1983 Kinks ...