July 2025 is the month for veteran rockers to step back into the spotlight in some fashion. We have already seen Black Sabbath bid farewell even as Oasis reentered the scene; now, with the release of “The Journey Part 3,” British legends The Kinks have again reminded us of their place in rock‘n’roll history via a combination of tracks from their latter arena-filling years and a 1993 live album showcasing the band’s power even as it reached the end of its then-thirty year career.
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The Kinks were English city and countryside storytelling rooted in folk and Victorian music hall stylings, usually with the added kicker of being cranked up to 11. The brainchild of primary singer and songwriter Ray Davies, the band burst onto the scene in the early 1960s with not primal, but primeval blasts of distorted guitar