McLuhan
Before Thriller, Bruce Swedien Recorded McLuhan’s Anomaly
Before Thriller, Bruce Swedien recorded McLuhan’s Anomaly. The Chicago band’s own accounts trace its horror films, media ideas and four ambitious pieces.
Bates Motel
Bates Motel Asked Sparks for a Producer. Ron and Russell Wanted a Band.
Les Bohem hoped Sparks might produce Bates Motel. Ron and Russell Mael wanted the musicians instead. The surviving live tapes explain the connection.
Bates Motel
Bates Motel Nearly Had Stephen Stills Produce Them. The Record Deal Never Came
Les Bohem and David Kendrick revisit Bates Motel’s blazing LA club years, near misses with major producers and the cassettes that became Live in LA 1980.
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
The Psychedelic Band Colleges Tried to Stop from “Brainwashing” Audiences
Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera turned strobe-lit “brainwashing” panic into one of British psychedelia’s sharpest debuts—now restored with essential singles, demos and rarities.
The Fox
The Fox Recorded For Fox Sake Overnight. Then Black Sabbath Changed Everything
The Fox thought their twelve-hour Radio Luxembourg session was an audition. It became their only album—now expanded with four unheard recordings and restored US artwork.
Mark Wirtz
'My Musical Life Was an Odyssey': Mark Wirtz in His Own Words
With Think Like A Key Music preparing to reissue Wirtz's Capitol albums Balloon and Hothouse Smiles this July, we publish this 2001 interview for the first time.
Orang-Utan
Orang-Utan: The Album They Never Knew They Made
A cult heavy rock classic, recorded in a single afternoon at De Lane Lea in 1970 and released without the band's knowledge, finally gets its definitive edition from the original master tape. Lead single "Magic Playground" is streaming now.
The 23rd Turnoff
The 1967 Liverpool Single YouTube Just Rediscovered, and Why Will Sergeant Never Forgot It
Fifty-eight years after it sank without trace, a single song by a band that never made a second record is finding its audience through a phone screen.
Ed Welch
Ed Welch's Clowns: The Lost Masterpiece Before the Fame
Before Blockbusters, before The Wurzels, before the LSO, a 23-year-old classical prodigy and an American folk legend made one quietly perfect pop album. Think Like A Key Music's remastered and expanded edition of Ed Welch's Clowns arrives May 22, 2026.
Dr. Strangely Strange
Gary Moore Was Still a Teenager When Dr. Strangely Strange Went Electric
Gary Moore’s path to guitar stardom passed through an unlikely record: a Dublin folk trio’s attempt to get louder without losing its peculiar character.
Nirvana
Patrick Campbell-Lyons (1943–2026): The Original Nirvana Has Lost Its Dreamer
The Irish-born co-founder of London’s original Nirvana, the man behind “Rainbow Chaser” and one of the first narrative concept albums ever made, has died at 82.
Paul Archer
Paul Archer Isn't Done Confronting His Demons: Watch the Intense New Video for 'No FEAR'
The Belfast artist drops a visceral new visual for the standout track from his acclaimed solo debut Art.