I’m listening right now to a record I’ve put out on a label I’ve set up myself: a spiralling piece of vinyl unleashing a glorious
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Marilyn Manson drops defamation lawsuit against Evan Rachel Wood
The shock rocker Marilyn Manson has dropped his long-running defamation lawsuit against the actor Evan Rachel Wood and has agreed to pay her about $327,000
Drake claims UMG and Spotify ‘artificially inflated’ Kendrick Lamar’s diss track Not Like Us
Drake has launched two legal actions against Universal Music Group (UMG) and Spotify, alleging they conspired to artificially inflate interest in Kendrick Lamar’s diss track
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is accused of sexual abuse. Why are his music streams rising?
In the past few years, powerful men within the music industry – the singer R Kelly, the Def Jam founder Russell Simmons and the Guns
‘Everyone was happy, but it became annoying’: Ethiopians look back on Band Aid
Forty years on, Yared Markos’s memories of famine in rural Ethiopia are vivid. His father was a geotechnical engineer, and as a boy he travelled
Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe by Vivien Goldman review – hanging with the punks and the Rastas
Vivien Goldman, the “punk professor” from London who teaches at New York University, has been involved in music from the 1970s onwards – whether writing
Rod Stewart to play Glastonbury 2025 legends slot: ‘I’m more than able to pleasure and titillate’
Glastonbury festival has announced its first act for 2025, with Rod Stewart booked to perform on the Pyramid stage in the Sunday teatime “legends” slot.
Kendrick Lamar: GNX review – stunning surprise from a rapper determined to be the greatest
By nature, hip-hop feuds are divisive, but the beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar was polarising in a way that had nothing to do with
‘Charles had just bought a mean-looking Chevrolet’: how War made Low Rider
Lonnie Jordan, piano, timbales, vibraphone, vocals Calling ourselves War was a positive thing: we were waging war against war and the conflicts going on in
Anohni review – uniquely gifted interpreter pays homage to mentor Lou Reed
Blessed with a voice you might imagine perfectly suited to interpreting others’ material, Anohni has largely shied away from recording covers. A couple of songs