The ’90s saw a new generation of filmmakers – Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson – who had an instinctive ...

Rock has never been governed by common sense. It's a world where instinct routinely trumps caution, where enormous egos collide with astonishing amounts of money, and where the sentence "this seems ...

Forgotten names, unforgettable influence: the cult bands whose riffs, ideas and attitude shaped entire scenes while fame ...

From superstition to simply hating the song, these artists all had reasons to stop playing their most loved songs ...

This live recording from the 2010 Magdeburg Telemann Festival is a fascinating reconstruction of Telemann’s Germanicus, written between 1701-05 (and later revised) for Leipzig, when the city briefly ...

Timeless artefacts and sonic anomalies: 15 singular albums that abandoned the cultural conveyor belt to exist in their own ...

David Crosby's 1971 album 'If I Could Only Remember My Name' was his masterpiece. But he had to go through a lot of pain to ...

These are the great ghost rooms of US rock – fifteen vanished spaces where scenes were born, legends rose and history left ...

The marriage between J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium and the rock arena was forged in the cultural crucible of the late 1960s and 1970s. For the 'flower power' generation and the burgeoning heavy metal ...

Led Zeppelin was never a ‘singles band’. While their peers chased three-minute radio spots, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham were busy constructing cathedrals of sound that ...

Some bands are tight, talented, even innovative – but still fall short of greatness. Then a figure emerges: a voice, a personality, a presence that changes the chemistry entirely. These are the ...

From iron-fisted studio dictators to ego-driven visionaries, these 15 leaders proved that rock and roll is rarely a true democracy ...