It’s a musical mystery that has been confounding the internet for years. But an ultra-catchy 80s-sounding song that seemingly no one could identify has finally
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‘Scalding emotional intensity’: Geoff Dyer on the spiritual power of saxophonist Zoh Amba
Interviewed many years after the experience, Don Cherry said he would “never forget” the first time he heard the tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler. That was
‘A silent film of dance underscored by an album’: inside the audacious Sufjan Stevens musical
Justin Peck is spending the spring zigzagging between Times Square and the Upper West Side. The star choreographer of New York City Ballet has been
‘The song I wish I’d written? Wonderwall’: Gabrielle’s honest playlist
The first song I remember hearingTop of the World by the Carpenters on the radio when I was three or four, standing in the school
‘A special bond between music and art’: Bath piano shop turns old parts into palette
The task of loading once-loved but now unwanted pianos into a van and carting them off to the recycling centre is a disheartening and melancholy
Billy Bragg: ‘There’s nothing like going out there singing your truth. That ain’t changed’
Recently, Billy Bragg showed his two young granddaughters a little promo film he put together celebrating his 40 years of making records. The girls were
T Bone Burnett: The Other Side review – a radiant meditation
At 76, Joseph Henry “T Bone” Burnett is revered as a godfather of the Americana revival, architect of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack
Paraorchestra: Death Songbook live review – bittersweet ballads with Brett Anderson and friends
Dressed all in black, Brett Anderson is channelling the elliptical yearning of Echo and the Bunnymen’s 1984 song The Killing Moon. To his left, Paraorchestra
Rick Astley: ‘I’m boring away from the spotlight – that’s why my life works’
Being 10 years younger than my older siblings meant I was bombarded with music from a young age. My older sister, Jane, and brother, John,
One to watch: the Cavemen
As pop music from west Africa continues to dominate globally, the Cavemen cut an interesting shape. Forget Afrobeats; the Nigerian duo are on a mission