The latest album in RCA’s endless Elvis Presley’s CD reissue series may have “essential” in the title, but don’t believe it. RCA has called nearly a dozen earlier albums or boxed sets “essential,” and ...

Sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell of Larkin Poe not only have a fine career of their own — they released their bluesy, rocking second album Reskinned earlier this year (and did an FUV Live session too) ...

Wise men say only fools rush in to a debate on Elvis' oeuvre. The man could, and did, sing just about anything, including the phone book (cue up "Memphis, Tennessee"). Elvis Presley adopted Mario ...

Austin Butler, the star of Baz Luhrmann’s all-shook-up biopic Elvis, joins an eclectic list of men who would be King. Among them: Don Johnson (Elvis and the Beauty Queen), Kurt Russell (John Carpenter ...

No matter who or what the subject of a Baz Luhrmann film is, there's always one universal truth — the soundtrack will be epic. Luhrmann, who solidified himself as a distinctive auteur with 1996's ...

For decades the King of Rock and Roll needed no introduction. Elvis was indeed everywhere, even after his untimely death, staying in the public eye through imitators, oldies radio, repackages, and ...

Listen: 'The Essentials' Soundtrack For HBO’s ‘Vinyl’ Featuring Elvis Costello, Iggy Pop, The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas & More ...

Sun Sessions is a compilation of all his first recordings. I got a copy when I was 16 and never looked back. This stuff is the stripped-down, raw, naked, musical magic of the young Elvis Presley.