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

The Kinks have assumed several different guises in their impressive rock and roll history. They began as furious riff-rockers, segued into intelligent popsters, took a hallowed pit stop in theme album ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the Kinks' sixth album, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, was released in November 1968, the band was more than three years removed from its last Top 10 hit. The preceding two ...

It can be illuminating to consider artists not through the works that make them famous, but in the light of their other aspirations and obsessions: Henry James as playwright, Neil Young as new wave ...

Guitar legend Dave Davies of The Kinks was asked on Twitter to pick a song from the band’s repertoire that is most relevant for today’s turbulent times. And he picked a gem. National Geographic’s ...

In 1971, the great British rock group The Kinks embarked on a new phase of their career by signing with RCA Records. Freed from their old label Pye's insistence on hit singles, Ray Davies' song ...

“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: ...

LOS ANGELES (CN) - Warner/Chappell Music breached an agreement to grant licenses for two Kinks songs to musical play because former frontman Ray Davies wanted them for his own show, "Sunny Afternoon," ...

The Kinks are one step closer to releasing new material, as Ray Davies has revealed details behind recent sessions with his brother and bandmate Dave. “Dave and I are having a collaboration on a few ...