Classically trained indie piano-pop artist Regina Spektor is back with a new album, Remember Us to Life—her first since 2012’s What We Saw From the Cheap Seats. Like the majority of her catalog,...
Australian elder statesmen of rock Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds have a back catalogue that spans over 30 years and a vast array of subject matter—including faith, life and death, romance, and...
The shocking and untimely death of musical icon Prince earlier this year saddened millions of fans and fellow musicians around the world—but the news media, particularly in the U.S., seemingly...
Climate change, drone bombings, the President, violent masculinity, humans vs. the Earth, cannibalism as a metaphor—these are not topics that make up the average alternative pop album. Then again,...
Highly successful and bestselling recording artist, guitarist, and gender-bending fashion icon Prince died yesterday at his Paisley Park recording studio complex, in his hometown of Chanhassen,...
Country music is a much-maligned genre which doesn’t get the credit it deserves for being utterly brilliant. For those of you who, like me, grew up thinking country music was all John Denver and...
There was only ever one song that would make a suitable finale to our musical advent calendar and it is, of course, Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade. Another titan of glam rock, also from the Midlands...
Today's calendar entry is - confession time - my personal all-time favourite Christmas song. I love all of the songs we've featured in the calendar but the reason I really love this one is its...
And welcome to the 1980s! Unlike most of the other big Christmas hits, I have never met anyone who doesn't like this song - it seems to be universally accepted as a Christmas classic. In fact, one...
Chris Rea was one of the voices of my childhood. Every summer we used to make the drive from Birmingham up to Sunderland to visit my grandparents and one of the albums that we used to listen to in...
