‘Like seeing Stonehenge for the first time’: the visionary genius of Vaughan Williams | Classical music

‘He witnessed things he was never to speak of … except perhaps in music’ … Vaughan Williams serving in the Field Ambulance in 1915.

Ask people about Ralph Vaughan Williams, whose 150th anniversary we celebrate this year, and you might be told either that he is hands down Britain’s favourite composer or a parochial embarrassment whose music sounds like […]

Ranking The Best MCU Style Icons

Doctor Strange

What should a superhero look like? It’s a question plenty of franchises have asked over the years. From the early, uniformed suits of teams like the X-Men and The Fantastic Four to the recognizable emblems […]

Days of Our Lives Spoilers: Chandler Massey Exits DOOL as Will Leaves for Hollywood, Accepts Shocking Offer

Days of Our Lives Spoilers: Chandler Massey Exits DOOL as Will Leaves for Hollywood, Accepts Shocking Offer

Days of Our Lives (DOOL) spoilers tease that Will Horton (Chandler Massey) will exit DOOL as Will Horton (Chandler Massey) leaves for Hollywood, so he’ll accept a shocking offer and depart on July 18. Of […]

Days of Our Lives Spoilers: Dr. Wilhelm Rolf Recast, Richard Wharton Takes Over for Will Utay – Doc Returns for DOOL Drama

Days of Our Lives Spoilers: Dr. Wilhelm Rolf Recast, Richard Wharton Takes Over for Will Utay – Doc Returns for DOOL Drama

Days of Our Lives (DOOL) spoilers tease that Dr. Wilhelm Rolf has been recast, so Richard Wharton will take over for Will Utay. The DiMera doc will return for some DOOL drama starting July 22 […]

‘Gangnam Style’ at 10: Psy’s song still a hit on YouTube

'Gangnam Style' at 10: Psy's song still a hit on YouTube

Psy’s “Gangnam Style,” the hit song no one could escape back in 2012, still continues to charm. The South Korean pop star’s ubiquitous pop song marked its 10th anniversary Friday, with seemingly no signs of […]

Remembering Richard Taruskin, a writer who made you care about 1,000 years of music : Deceptive Cadence : NPR

Remembering Richard Taruskin, a writer who made you care about 1,000 years of music : Deceptive Cadence : NPR

UC Berkeley Professor Richard Taruskin, whose 4000-page book The Oxford History of Western Music set a benchmark for writing about the history of classical music. San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst N/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty hide caption […]

Black Midi: Hellfire review – gruesome rock opera is a little too clever | Music

Black Midi: Hellfire album cover

The third album by Black Midi is nothing if not wildly eclectic. You hear sleazy-sounding arrangements with tango-esque rhythms created under the influence of Kurt Weill; luscious, cinematic strings; ranting spoken-word passages delivered in a […]

See “Save the Last Dance” Star Sean Patrick Thomas Now at 51

Sean Patrick Thomas and Julia Stiles in Save the Last Dance

It didn’t take long for actor Sean Patrick Thomas to make a name for himself. After one episode of the soap opera One Life to Live in 1995, he made his movie debut in Courage Under Fire with Denzel Washington […]