Ray Davies is in a car in midtown Manhattan, passing Times Square. He's been doing interviews all morning and he sounds it. He's out of his element, which remains after all these years the North ...

There's resignation, defiance, and practicality in the way Ray Davies assesses his career these days. Of course the onetime leader of the Kinks would rather be writing, recording, and playing new ...

DETROIT (Billboard) - After reinterpreting his past for "The Kinks Choral Collection," which comes out Tuesday, Ray Davies says that "my initial instinct is to write some new songs again." And he may ...

And Ray Davies, one of the finest songwriters of the last 50 years, is certainly no stranger to recycling material: 1969’s “Arthur,” the Kinks’ soundtrack to a never-realized television show, is a ...

Ray Davies, who performed with Metallica at a recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden, finds himself in another unfamiliar setting on his new album. The Kinks ...

Ray Davies, frontman for the legendary rock and roll (and some would say proto-punk group) The Kinks, has recently released a new album titled The Kinks Choral Collection. The album is a collection of ...

Having carved out a considerable legacy with the Kinks, Ray Davies is well aware that it’s the songs from that body of work that the concert goers are paying to see. He also says that we shouldn’t ...

The songs Ray Davies wrote for The Kinks changed the course of music history. Experts cite “You Really Got Me,” for example, with its violent power chords, as the first true hard-rock tune and the ...

Ray Davies reveled in the volume when he took the stage with Metallica in October for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert in New York City. The heavy metal band backed Davies as they roared through ...