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This Scottish singer-songwriter has churned out reliably solid albums since “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” launched her career in 2005 with a pedal-loop heard around the world. These days when Ed Sheeran plays entirely pedal-looped stadium-show sets, he often thanks Tunstall for the inspiration. But if she’s eluded you …

Dave Grohl debuted his one-man instrumental project “Play” live with an all-star band that included members of Queens of the Stone Age and Jane’s Addiction and producer Greg Kurstin. The Foo Fighters frontman first revealed the prog-rock epic in a documentary back in August which showed him making a 23-minute …

Guttersnipe are an ecstatic, disgusting, blown-out, body-music-and-rainbow-noise yowl duo from Leeds, England currently making the rounds on U.K. year end lists like The Wire and The Quietus. If you like your rock music frenzied, caustic and devoid of anything resembling a melody, this might be worth a blast. Drummer Tipula …

DJ Earworm dropped his “United State of Pop 2018 (Turnin’ It Up),” the mash-up specialist’s annual seamless showcase of the year’s biggest singles. And by this metric, the year belonged to Drake, who had a slew of songs in the mix. Drake’s “God’s Plan,” “Nice for What” and “In My Feelings” …

Annie Lennox sings about the tragedies of war in her first new song in eight years, “Requiem for a Private War.” In the video for the song, she sings elegiacally, “All the world is falling down,” as footage from the new movie, A Private War, plays. It’s a slow-building, passionate …

By the summer of 1987, Richard “Richie Ramone” Reinhardt had had enough of the Ramones. The New York punk group hired him as their drummer in 1983 when Marky Ramone’s drinking problem became a massive liability, but after a grueling four years of touring, recording and even singing lead on …

Boz Scaggs takes nothing for granted, especially his voice. Each day before soundcheck on his just-wrapped tour, he put his vocal cords through their paces. For about six or seven minutes, he formed long “oohs” and “aahs,” pushing his throat to a strenuous point before easing it back down. “It’s …

Kurt Cobain offered his thoughts on hip-hop and claimed white people shouldn’t rap in a recently unearthed interview conducted September 20th, 1991, four days before Nirvana released Nevermind. The interview was posted by Roberto LoRusso, who conducted the interview when he was 21 and working as a DJ for his …

It took Snow Patrol seven years to release their new album Wildness, but they haven’t had any trouble regaining momentum after the long hiatus. The band spent the summer and fall playing to stadiums opening up for Snow Patrol superfan Ed Sheeran, and just announced an extensive spring U.S. tour, …

Billie Eilish is only 16, but she’s become one of the biggest breakouts of 2018. The L.A. singer – who credits both My Chemical Romance and Lana Del Rey as huge influences– has racked more than a billion streams with dark-pop singles like “When the Party’s Over,” and her rebellious …