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 ...

When Van Halen recorded You Really Got Me, they took a beloved Kinks song and gave it a raw, heavy edge that helped define their sound.

Ray Davies and his younger brother Dave began gigging around North London as teenagers, playing with other future stars such as Rod Stewart and Charlie Watts before settling into a quartet called 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 ...

The Kinks meditate on lazy days and mortality in “Time Song,” an unreleased track that’s on the band’s upcoming 50th anniversary edition of The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, out ...

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 ...

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," ...