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Born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Rebecca Lucy Taylor, 39, was in the duo Slow Club. After 10 years, she went solo as Self Esteem and received Mercury prize, NME and Brit nominations for her second album, 2021's Prioritise Pleasure. This year, she won the Ivor Novello Visionary award and released a book and album, both called A Complicated Woman. In March, she stars in David Hare's Teeth 'n' Smiles at the Duke of York's theatre, London. She lives in London with her partner.

HTRK have been making their gloomy, sensual brand of music, at the intersection of electronic pop and noise rock, for 22 years. To mark the milestone comes String of Hearts, a collection of covers and remixes featuring an all-star cast of friends and collaborators, from next-gen underground favourites like Coby Sey to fellow old-school experimentalists Liars. This brilliant, genre-agnostic record allows you to trace the breadth of the Melbourne band's shapeshifting sound, echoes of which can now be found all over underground and commercial music,

Jack White has released a live recording of his epic Thanksgiving Day halftime show featuring Eminem.

It's that time of year again - Christmas is coming and the release schedules are fattening up with every day. So it's time to watch the contenders gather on the starting line for one of the year's biggest chart races. This year, there is a wide variety of contenders - including children's favourites, charity fund raisers, daytime TV icons and Aussie pop queens, among many more. Within three weeks we'll know the winner. Until then... On your marks, get set, go!

"tissue paper, onionskin, gift-wrap, napkins, concert programs, and even place mats"-scraps of ballads, union songs, and protest hymns for the next generation to sing. Guthrie's prolific posthumous catalog has meant that, at the invitation of his daughter and archivist, Nora Guthrie, contemporary musicians like Billy Bragg & Wilco, Del McCoury, the Klezmatics, and the Dropkick Murphys have tried on Guthrie's unsung lyrics over the years to find that his messages of radical humanism still fit perfectly.

While he ran his magazine since 2016 with a focus on print, featuring local talents from around the Bay Area, with a focus on highlighting Antioch and Pittsburg areas, he recently started changing his focus to other pursuits. He launched a Knocksmith TV channel on the Roku app to feature his homemade videos, started doing more online marketing work with other companies and has been experimenting with AI programs to make new ads for other clients outside of music.

Zach Bryan has announced his 2026 "With Heaven on Tour," featuring more than 40 stadium dates across the United States and Europe. The tour launches March 7th in St. Louis and runs through October, with stops at massive venues like Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, and Gillette Stadium in Foxborough.

Thanksgiving is all about family, and Eminem made sure his was close by when he took the stage for a surprise guest appearance during Jack White's halftime show at the Lions-Packers Thanksgiving Day game. In an Instagram video shared by Eminem's daughter Hailie Jade, the rapper's grandson, Elliot Marshall McClintock, was on hand to watch his grandpa perform "'Till I Collapse" with White.

From the moment the Fugees shot to fame in the mid-90s, Prakazrel Pras Michel was discounted as an incidental member of the hip-hop superstars. He was the unremarkable New Jersey rhyme spitter by way of Brooklyn who was lucky enough to be a high school classmate of the mesmerizing Lauryn Hill and a cousin to mercurial Wyclef Jean. On the group's breakout album The Score, Michel's eight-bar features were minor contributions, relative to Hill's adroitness as an emcee and balladeer and Jean's compositional polymathy.

The captivating cover photo by Fey Willbrandt sets the tone for an EP that seamlessly connects to her previous achievements. The lead single, "Ich hasse, wenn", introduced Amelie to a wider audience, making waves across various playlists, including Fresh Finds GSA. This track features alongside six other songs in the EP, showcasing her delicate arrangements and engaging storytelling that explore themes of embarking on new journeys, vulnerability, and self-discovery.

Their guitarist Vini Reilly was so poleaxed by depression that he was virtually unable to leave his house: 12 different attempts were made to section him over the course of 1979. Believing that Reilly was going to die, Factory Records boss Tony Wilson intervened, buying him a new guitar, then suggested he visit a studio with the label's troubled but visionary producer Martin Hannett as an experiment.

Last night, De La Soul were the musical guests on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where they played two tracks from their new album, Cabin in the Sky. After leading the crowd through a chant, Posdnuos rapped his way through "Run It Back!!," while Maseo oversaw the production boards. A horn section then walked onstage to segue into " The Package," with De La Soul and the instrumentalists moving side to side in tandem. They also gestured to the side screen at one point to let the late Trugoy 's verse play on its own. Watch a replay of the performance below.

The Abba Voyage show is set to head across the pond show after becoming a roaring success in the capital. The show has been in East London for the past three and a half years and is still selling out week after week. And now, thanks to the success of the concert, they will be taking the show stateside. Bosses want to take the digital concert's residency to New York, after talks for launching it in Las Vegas stalled.

"Everyone who was watching me was like, 'Oh you're weird. You're a weirdo. We like it,'" Obsidienne says. "And that was really cool."

Like all binaries, these overlap: there's a folkish element in almost all classical music - at least, all the classical music that's worth listening to - and every musical element we crown with the term "classical" (counterpoint, formal structure, broadly speaking the "intellectual" layer) is present to some degree in the various folk traditions. These two instincts, which we might as well call Apollonian and Dionysian, create in their eternal dance all art and perhaps all life.

For decades, musical performances and other non-religious public gatherings were strictly controlled by the Saudi government. This practically confined most forms of public cultural expression, especially music, to the privacy of homes and gated communities. By 2016, the country witnessed wholesale social, cultural, and economic transformations to wean off religious extremism, improve the quality of life, and attract foreign investment.

Over the past quarter of a century the Australian Chamber Orchestra has become a regular visitor to Europe, establishing itself as one of the world's foremost chamber bands. The group was founded in 1975, and this pairing of perhaps the two greatest violin concertos in the repertory is being released to mark the ACO's 50th birthday. The soloist and conductor in both works is Richard Tognetti, who has been the orchestra's leader and artistic director for the past 35 years.

Robert Kyncl, the chief executive of Warner Music Group, said the deal showed that artificial intelligence could be pro-artist when it is licensed to reflect the value of music. This landmark pact with Suno is a victory for the creative community that benefits everyone, he said. With Suno rapidly scaling, both in users and monetisation, we've seized this opportunity to shape models that expand revenue and deliver new fan experiences.

Enter for a chance to win a $100 gift certificate to Streetlight Records in San Jose or Santa Cruz. Buy, Sell, trade, new & used, CDs, LPs, tapes, videos, laserdiscs, DVDs, new releases, old releases. A definite spot for any music lover, Streetlight Records houses plenty of styles and genres of music to check out. Drawing Date for this Giveaway is Wednesday, January 7, 2026.Winners notified by email and have 48 hours to respond or forfeit. Must be 18+ to win.

There's no doubt that the arrival of The Beatles Anthology in 1995 was a big deal. The TV series was broadcast at prime time on both sides of the Atlantic, and ABC in the US even changed its name to ABeatlesC in its honour. The three accompanying albums (the first time the Beatles had allowed outtakes from their recording sessions to be officially released) sold in their millions.

How exciting for women to be present at its birth pangs, ready to help it evolve to maturity in the world of the arts. To evolve as a true and practical instrument for conveying women's inner thoughts, just as the novel did nearly two centuries ago...

German band The Notwist have announced News from Planet Zombie, their 10th album and first in five years, which will be out March 3 via Morr Music.

I think if he'd walked in and sang that version, I'm not gonna lie, I would've gone, 'Forget it.' Seriously. Because I didn't even know he wrote the song, when I heard his version, I was like, 'Whoa.' I just don't think that would have been a great audition.