Consequence of Sound — Ray Davis says the band is making a new album and they plan to play shows. more info

Sky News — The Kinks have reformed and are recording new material 20 years after they split, according to their frontman. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — It's got some of their folkiest music yet, but also some of their most electronic music yet, and as we heard at SXSW, there's a song with lyrics about Ray Davies and a guitar solo that uses the vocal melody from The Kinks' 'Waterloo Su... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Vogue listed spring's most anticipated books. Stream anew song by Wye Oak. March's best eBook deals. Stream anew song by Deeper. Guernica interviewed author Therese Marie Mailhot. Pitchfork reconsidered the Kinks' 1967 album Something Else. Why Norma... more info

Stereogum — Flip over "Sunny Afternoon," one of the finest singles cut by the Kinks in the upward sweep of a long, long creative peak, and you might be convinced that the 7" is a double-A side. "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" found its way into a good stretch of g... more info

JamBase — Listen to the Chris Robinson Brotherhood end a Saturday night show in Boston with their debut cover of a the Kinks' classic. more info

Stereogum — Last month, the British-born, Chicago-based guitarist James Elkington released the lush, lovely singer-songwriter album Wintres Woma , one of the finest folk-rock LPs in recent memory. And now Elkington has recorded a few tracks for the Aquarium Dru... more info

KEXP Seattle — Research by DJ Abbie Gobeli, on the air Wednesdays 1 AM – 6 AM If you were listening to The Morning Show on KEXP this morning, you may have caught that it’s the 73rd birthday of Sir Ray Davies, founding member of The Kinks. Alongside his brother ... more info

The Daily Mail — BAZ BAMIGBOYE: The story of how Sixties icon Ray Davies coped with the ‘mayhem of fame’ is being turned into a movie. The project is based on the Olivier Award-winning musical Sunny Afternoon. more info

Aquarium Drunkard — For Kinks guitarist Dave Davies, music isn’t an intellectual pursuit. In Davies’ mind, creation is a purely instinctual action, not a result of the brain so much as the gut. “When you first start to get into music, you write something and if it... more info