Claims about the death of authenticity are almost always exaggerated, and accusations of 'cheating' sound absurd in retrospect. Eventually, people learn to sing along to the new tune, or at least ...

How does state pride sound at its most distilled? Artists like George Strait and BigXthaPlug, spanning eras, genres, and oceans, have given us more answers to that question than we ever expected to ...

We are looking back at The Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson as he picks his favourite song from the hundreds he has written ...

Director Ryan Coogler and composer Ludwig Göransson met in film school at USC. Their latest collaboration, an explosive mix ...

Growing up, I was always drawn to Mandy Patinkin’s voice — listening to Evita and Sunday in the Park With George on repeat. I never imagined I’d one day hear him sing “Sunday” live, let ...

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Bon Iver were at the vanguard of the indie-folk boom of the late 2000s, just as the world economy turned to bust. That was when Fleet Foxes’s beatific roots-rock went platinum, Mumford & Sons started ...

A Moon Shaped Pool” is Radiohead’s comeback from arguably their most disappointing record in their discography, “The King of Limbs.” It’s not easy for a band to make such a remarkable comeback as they ...

True baseball fans know that a good walk up song can set the tone for an entire game, and keep the crowd humming for all nine ...

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Reginald Kenneth Dwight was a 20-year-old session musician when he applied for a job at a London record label, and was paired ...

Mike Scott is The Waterboys. Launched by wide-eyed 1980s folk-rock, and “The Whole of the Moon”, he’s long since roamed into whatever stylistic gumbo he fancies. The latest album – the band’s 16th – ...