Releasing an album no longer guarantees success in an industry where platinum-selling singers face the same pressures as fledgling artists. Yet, Keane frontm...

It’s hard to believe this London singer’s not old enough to buy herself a celebratory bottle of champagne on her first U.S. tour.

With his new recording, Fever Dream, Ben Watt captures the pleasure and pain of a Gen-Xer caught between two fires – his youth and the future. Fever Dream is...

Thirty years ago, no one might have predicted that Nile Rodgers would be on the road with Duran Duran in 2016. Yet, this spring the producer and guitarist is...

Only Duran Duran can get away with a seven-minute title track that offers electro grooves, hand-waving harmonies, and upbeat lyrics about the world going to ...

Every great songwriter has a “bird on the shoulder” moment now and then. Glen Hansard says the melody of the lead track from his new album, Didn’t He Ramble,...

On July 13, 1985, Africa became a brand. The image of a starving Ethiopian girl named Birhan Woldu flickered across TV screens as Paul McCartney, David Bowie...

PASTE MAGAZINE Twenty years ago this spring, Oasis holed up in a recording studio in Wales to create the defining album of the Britpop movement. 1995’s (What...

Emmanuel Jal’s story is an inspiring personal journey of survival: During the second Sudanese civil war in the 1980s, his mother was killed when government s...

THE ECONOMIST THREE decades before One Direction, Ellie Goulding and others added their voices and carefully mussed-up hair to “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”...

A new documentary called Soul Boys of the Western World follows the British band Spandau Ballet from its New Romantic beginnings in London in the late 1970s ...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST “NOSTALGIA”, the latest album from Annie Lennox, the British singer-songwriter, recalls an era of smoky clubs and str...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR PURE POP “So this is it, our life on earth, we’re made of stars, we’re made of dirt,” Tim Booth sings in “Walk Like You,” the first...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST Photo by Ian Webber. “Is this cheating on Tracey? I dunno,” Ben Watt asked. He felt a little funny performing E...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST Karl Wallinger is sitting on the running board of his tour van and smoking a cigarette. He just finished World ...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR ORIGIN MAGAZINE Rufus Wainwright is an enigmatic singer from a family of Canadian-American musicians. He released his self-titled d...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST Abner Ramirez and Amanda Sudano, better known as LA-based music duo Johnnyswim, released their first full-lengt...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST FOR her latest muse, Rosanne Cash returns to the familiar world of the American South, where the ghosts of William Fa...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST It may surprise music fans of a certain age to know that various members of Big Country, The Alarm, and Simple ...