A hip-hop take on our Founding Fathers hardly sounds like a guaranteed hit, but Hamilton: An American Musical became the toast of Broadway upon its premiere in 2015, and the original cast recording proved just as revolutionary. Lin-Manuel Miranda, who...

Lou Reed went through a number of different stages in his musical career, and we’re not just talking about the Velvet Under years and the solo years. Our man Lou spent the first half of the 1970s on RCA Records...