Pop music is simple. That’s the idea, anyway. Since the advent of recorded music, the most widely heard music in the world tends to be
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In the expansive basement of his house in an exclusive neighbourhood of Chiswick in west London, Darcus Beese, 55, is sipping a cappuccino below a
New summer classics playlist: 15 artists pick sunshine tracks
Nia Archives The DJ, producer and singer-songwriter is a rising star of UK jungle and drum’n’bass. Her debut album, Silence Is Loud, is nominated for
Milton Nascimento and Esperanza Spalding: Milton + Esperanza review – a quixotic double act
Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento has long fascinated western musicians, in particular US jazzers such as the late sax titan Wayne Shorter, though UK yacht rockers
Killer Mike: Michael & the Mighty Midnight Revival: Songs for Sinners and Saints review – hard-won life lessons
F Scott Fitzgerald’s maxim – that there are no second acts in American lives – has not held true for some time, if ever it
Post your questions for Gillian Welch
Later this month, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings will release their 10th studio album together, Woodland – named after and recorded at their studio of
Hit em: how a dream about raves, graves and slime led Matmos’s Drew Daniel to a new music genre
The other night Drew Daniel went out raving and the club was pumping out loud and distorted music. His friend Max was ignoring him, toying
Orville Peck: Stampede review – starry duets about gay cowboy love
You can date country music’s position as pop’s rising force back to Lil Nas X’s inescapable Old Town Road. It began an uncomfortable conversation about
Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin review – an inspiring homage
American polymath Meshell Ndegeocello won a Grammy for her 2023 LP The Omnichord Real Book, and this multi-voiced, jazz-adjacent theatrical opus ramps up the veteran