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Vernon Reid on D’Angelo’s everlasting influence and the deep roots of the late neo-soul trailblazer's sound
Reid says his mind was blown by D’Angelo’s virtuoso command of rhythm and just how far he could stay behind the beat, and recalls the bluesy track they made together for a Queen Latifah movie
"I'm a maximalist": Raye breaks down the head-spinning vocal arrangement in Where Is My Husband!
She also explains why she might be set to make more tweaks to the mix before the song appears on her album
“This is what it feels like to be hunted by something smarter than you”: Grimes’ new track is from the perspective of AI
It’s her first single for nearly four years
“I went to the label and said, ‘This song sucks. This is not the song I wrote.’”: The war over a ’90s anthem
An idiosyncratic and insanely catchy rock-pop classic
“There is no possible way that I would do that”: David Gilmour shuts door on idea of ever performing with Roger Waters again
Plus his wife Polly Samson reveals why she condemned Waters as “anti-Semitic” on X
“I would come into the studio and people didn’t want to listen to me”: Avril Lavigne’s fight to create her first big hit
It also kick-started the career of production team The Matrix
“She had nailed her interpretation of that song before she came to the studio”: When Heaven 17 revived Tina Turner’s career
The soul legend recorded Let’s Stay Together in one take
How Prince embraced The Beatles and recorded one of the most vulnerable ballads of his career
“He’d moved past the pop simplicity of Purple Rain - this was Gershwin-esque," says drummer Bobby Z
