While listening to recommended streaming playlists as I write, as a writer often does, I found myself no longer writing and only listening when the song “Lovefingers” by Silver Apples came into my ...

In the 1990s, amid the acoustic guitar revolution, grunge, rap music, and many other styles, there was a sound that rose to prominence and stuck around perhaps longer than anyone could have imagined.

When the four guys in Battle Tapes came together a handful of years ago, they didn’t really have any plans for what they were doing. “It just kind of started out as a passion project where we’d rent a ...