David Crosby: a mercurial musical genius who thrived through the chaos | David Crosby

Stephen Stills, David Crosby and Graham Nash AKA Crosby Stills & Nash.

By all accounts, including his own, David Crosby could be a tricky and difficult character. His career was regularly punctuated by angry arguments, bitter fallings-out, sackings, general discord. Joni Mitchell once waspishly suggested he was […]

‘A fundamental blow’: anger over threat to BBC Introducing music discovery platform | Music

Little Simz at the Music Industry Trust awards in London last year.

It is the nationwide network of weekly regional radio programmes and festival stages that has helped launch the careers of British superstars such as Ed Sheeran, Florence + the Machine, Celeste and Little Simz. But […]

Want to sleep better? Add BTS and Billie Eilish to your playlist

Billie Eilish performs on stage during her Happier Than Ever World Tour, at The O2 Arena on June 10, 2022, in London, England.

It may be time to add some energetic pop music to your soothing sleep playlist. A team of Denmark researchers found there is not a “one size fits all” genre of music people play to […]

‘I want an indescribable feeling’: composer Kali Malone on her search for the sublime | Experimental music

Kali Malone with a chamber pipe organ.

Listening to composer Kali Malone’s Does Spring Hide Its Joy is like watching weather move across a landscape. Sinewaves and strings swell gently, like a calm dawn; electric guitar overwhelms like clouds blocking the sun. […]

‘A modern-day fairytale’: the joyful Japanese food and friendship drama you should never watch hungry | Television

Natsuki Deguchi as Sumire in The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House.

With a Netflix Top 10 that, in the UK at least, features Ginny & Georgia, Vikings: Valhalla and Emily in Paris, you might be forgiven for wondering if there is much left on the streaming […]

Tipalti Powers Create Music Group’s One-Month Payment Cycles

Create Music Group tapped Tipalti to facilitate its one-month payment turnarounds (photo: Create Music Group)

Photo Credit: Create Music Group Long payment cycles have remained endemic in the music industry. While some streaming platforms like YouTube pay royalties monthly, many labels haven’t allowed that swiftness to trickle down to artists. […]

Madonna Accused Lady Gaga of “Blatantly Ripping” Her Off

Lady Gaga performing in 2011

Every influential artist sets the stage for those that come after them, and no one can claim that with more confidence than Madonna. Not only does she have the Guinness World Record for being the […]

Power behind the baton: the conductor who prepared Cate Blanchett for Tár | Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár in Tár

Cate Blanchett’s new film role as an imposing orchestral conductor is earning her a shot at another top acting award. But it has already given the Oscar-winner the skills to lead a real orchestra through […]

Lisa Marie Presley: A complex financial legacy

Elvis Presley poses with wife Priscilla and daughter Lisa Marie, in a room at Baptist hospital in Memphis, Tenn., 1968.

Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, earns more in death than most people ever will in life. But since the rock legend’s death in 1977, that posthumous payload has seen its share of […]

From ‘House Party’ To Playing A Civil Rights Leader – Deadline

From ‘House Party’ To Playing A Civil Rights Leader – Deadline

Tosin Cole was larking about on the set of the Warner Bros  House Party reboot in Los Angeles when an email dropped from casting director Kim Coleman (BlacKkKlansman) about Emmett Till’s story. “I was like, ‘I’m filming […]

‘As Black girls we have to kick the door down’: Flo on their rapid rise to stardom | Music

Flo performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Flo arrive at the central London restaurant where our interview is taking place, in this order: first comes 21-year-old Stella Quaresma, arriving before we’ve been shown to our table; then Renée Downer, aged 20, once […]

Pharrell Williams: ‘Life without music would be like a human being without sense’ | Pharrell Williams

Parrell Williams with his collaborator Chad Hugo

A common feature of the early Neptunes sound was the clavichord. Did you or Chad Hugo introduce this, and can you recall the first song you made using it? Rochase Man, you’ve put me on […]