The 1960s was one long party for Dave Davies. While his older brother, Ray, observed and wrote about Swinging London from a distance, The Kinks’ guitarist was aptly dubbed Dave The Rave. He took an ...

Since the 1980s, Ray Davies has intermittently led a seminar for aspiring songwriters through England’s Arvon Foundation — a side hustle he landed, of course, as a result of the dozens of classic ...

UNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 01: (AUSTRALIA OUT) Photo of KINKS and Ray DAVIES and Dave DAVIES and Pete QUAIFE and Mick AVORY; L-R: Ray Davies, Dave Davies, Pete Quaife, Mick Avory. The Kinks' "You Really ...

The Davies brothers, raised in North London near the Muswell Hill suburb that would inspire one of their albums, formed the Kinks in 1963, eventually adding Avory and the late bassist Pete Quaife. The ...

During the last several years, both Ray and his brother, founding Kinks guitarist Dave Davies, have revealed in interviews that they are open to doing a reunion project and have even worked on some ...

The Kinks, one of the greatest ever British rock groups, today reveal a special new Ray Davies mix of the band's 1974 studio track “Money Talks,” released as a new digital single and video on October ...

CHICAGO — “There was the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Kinks,” says Arnold Engelman, the New York producer who has been pursuing the story of the last band on that list for some 20 ...

“I’ve found that a lot of Kinks music is pretty timeless in the sense that it’s not really been in one particular age or time, but in some ways quite futuristic.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture. Photo: ...

This isn’t the first time a tribute to Ray Davies has ever been offered. After all, Davies is one of the most prolific frontmen of all time, as evidenced by the legacy of The Kinks and the remarkable ...

“There was The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Who and The Kinks,” says Arnold Engelman, the New York producer who has been pursuing the story of the last band on that list for some 20 years. “And ...

Ray Davies discussed his unusual vocal delivery on the Kinks’ classic track “Waterloo Sunset,” saying he tried to keep the lyrics hidden from his bandmates as they worked on the tune. In a recent ...