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10 underrated Air tracks you absolutely need to hear
By Andy Price published
The beloved French duo behind Sexy Boy and All I Need have a deep well of spellbinding music every bit as superb as their most well-known tracks

A music professor breaks down the theory behind Sly & The Family Stone's Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
By Ethan Hein published
Following Sly Stone's passing, we explore how one of the funk icon's most enduring grooves turns minimal harmony into maximum impact

“The recording of Appetite For Destruction cost $365,000”: Guns N’ Roses’ former manager on the band's classic debut
By Paul Elliott published
“Axl sounded like he had overdosed on helium at certain points”

Paul McCartney unwittingly met the girl who’d later inspire the Beatles’ She’s Leaving Home years before writing the song
By Andy Price published
She’d later crop up in a newspaper story and trigger Paul to pen the Sgt. Pepper classic - but did he remember that he’d already met the girl in question?

The beloved British band whose comeback gig actually caused the earth to move
By Andy Price published
Surrounding residents had to be escorted from their flats the day Madness reunited due to suspected seismic activity

“Due to digital, music now has a terrible sort of housewifely tidiness”: Brian Eno on sonic perfectionism, Bowie and his new collaborative double album
By Danny Turner published
We visit Brian Eno in the studio to find out more about Luminal and Lateral, a collaborative project with conceptual artist Beatie Wolfe

Lifeguard on abstract noise and pop hooks – and the creative epiphanies behind their stellar debut
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Chicago trio's debut LP, Ripped And Torn, is a half-hour riot of post-punk urgency, freewheeling experimentalism and the sound of a band figuring out how to give their audience whiplash

How Lorde established herself as Bowie's creative heir with her weirdest and most brilliant single
By Andy Price published
Co-written with Jack Antonoff, the first taste of Lorde’s modern classic Melodrama was stacked with inspired choices
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