Sad news reaches us this afternoon that Chris Rea has died after a short illness, aged 74. Many news outlets will no doubt be ...

One day in October 1972, Paul McCartney received a phone call from Ron Kass, head of Apple Records. McCartney liked Kass and ...

It was a fragile psychological state. The result was that he had almost no recollection of having recorded the song or the ...

Sire Records are the latest label to take a punt and see if they can establish a working relationship with Morrissey. Last ...

Based in a new studio, Berlin’s favourite sonic troublemakers crash the DJ-Kicks series with a shape-shifting techno-industrial mix. We sit down with Sebastian Szary to find out more ...

A record allegedly driven by supernatural forces, Prince swiftly disowned the stark funk of the Black Album - but what caused him to pivot so dramatically?

Waits’ gritty Rain Dogs depicted a dark vision of New York’s underbelly, and was shaped by its ‘junkyard orchestra’ of inventive instrumentation ...

For Alanis Morissette, 1996 single Ironic was a bit of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it gave her a massive hit, but on the other, she’s had to spend the past 30 years defending the song’s ...

On the one hand, Forbes reported that as of 2010, the song was making Sir Paul between $400,000 and $600,000 per year. On the ...

Lady Gaga has been talking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 about her year, the Mayhem album, her current world tour and (inevitably) AI.

December 1979 in the UK, January 1980 in the US – London Calling saw The Clash leave punk behind and establish themselves as a rock n’ r ...