Interestingly, for his own pick in the HMV My Inspiration series, Shane MacGowan picked a verse from Nick Cave’s 2005 song ‘Lucy’, citing the following as his favourite: Much like the motif that moves ...

Keira Knightley became a figure of scorn and mockery when she signed on for a couple of early projects, which turned out to be the making of her career.

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They don’t tend to do what Anya Taylor-Joy did when tasked with promoting a much-anticipated sequel from a visionary director, though. To the shock of several interviewers, she admitted the shoot ...

In just seven short years, The Beatles totally and forever changed the face and landscape of popular music. From the moment they burst onto the scene, seemingly perfectly formed and ready-made for ...

Signing up to a radical artistic and scientific project before his death in 2021, composer Alvin Lucier's stem-cell brain is still composing after his death.

While her music can ostensibly be placed within the art pop sphere, there’s always been an experimental edge to the work of Julia Holter.

According to Cantrell, this song is the “masterpiece” of the album, and it’s easy to see why. “A really powerful tune,” he wrote in the liner notes for Music Bank. “That was the masterpiece of that ...

A look into how the blues evolved from harrowing roots and the song that highlights that history the best, Geeshie Wiley's 'Last Kind Word Blues'.

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Boasting a seismic legacy on the world of dub, Jamaican producer Lee 'Scratch' Perry wryly draped himself in a mythos ...

Rock and roll in the 2000s might have been experiencing a strange development, but there were people who took everything a song should be and did the opposite.