Most great albums take months. These timeless classics were made in days - sometimes even hours - and are arguably better ...

The ’90s saw a new generation of filmmakers – Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson – who had an instinctive ...

Rock has never been governed by common sense. It's a world where instinct routinely trumps caution, where enormous egos collide with astonishing amounts of money, and where the sentence "this seems ...

Forgotten names, unforgettable influence: the cult bands whose riffs, ideas and attitude shaped entire scenes while fame ...

From superstition to simply hating the song, these artists all had reasons to stop playing their most loved songs ...

This live recording from the 2010 Magdeburg Telemann Festival is a fascinating reconstruction of Telemann’s Germanicus, written between 1701-05 (and later revised) for Leipzig, when the city briefly ...

Some albums do not merely belong to a different era; they seem to have been whispered into existence from a parallel dimension. While most music is a product of its tools, its peers, and its timeline, ...

David Crosby's 1971 album 'If I Could Only Remember My Name' was his masterpiece. But he had to go through a lot of pain to ...

These are the great ghost rooms of US rock – fifteen vanished spaces where scenes were born, legends rose and history left ...

The marriage between J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium and the rock arena was forged in the cultural crucible of the late 1960s and 1970s. For the 'flower power' generation and the burgeoning heavy metal ...

Led Zeppelin was never a ‘singles band’. While their peers chased three-minute radio spots, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham were busy constructing cathedrals of sound that ...

Some bands are tight, talented, even innovative – but still fall short of greatness. Then a figure emerges: a voice, a personality, a presence that changes the chemistry entirely. These are the ...