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Suede founding bandmembers explore the stories behind the making of the band’s sophomore album and reflect upon its ...

With former Syracuse University colleague and intellectual Sterling Morrison and the quiet younger sister of a friend Moe Tucker solidifying the line-up, the Velvet Underground secured a residency at ...

In the early ’90s, Jeff Mangum and a few friends formed a now-legendary collective called Elephant Six, which grew to encompass dozens of strangely named bands creating eclectic music mostly for their ...

Love “Forever Changes” is one of the seminal sixties albums and one of the top psychedelic albums of all times according to serious music fans and critics. The band may not be familiar to many people ...

Björk signed Colleen’s Sugarcubes album when she visited WNYU. Score! I also greatly admire how she has kept her fans on their toes whilst wrapped around her finger. Her solo album Debut didn’t pick ...

How Jeff Mangum became inspired by Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl' and turned it into a modern classic. Brownswood head honcho Gilles Peterson digs deep into the cosmos and shares his Top Five ...

“Van Morrison was twenty-two or twenty-three—years old when he made this record [Astral Weeks]; there are lifetimes behind it. What Astral Weeks deals in are not facts but truths. Astral Weeks, ...

Ed Harcourt co-wrote and played on the Faithfull’s 20th studio album which she described as her most honest album.

KT Tunstall tells the story behind one of her favourite records, ‘Graceland’ by Paul Simon. As part of our ‘Classic Albums at Home’ programme of online events, KT discusses her own personal ...

Consider for a moment the unnerving prospect of creating a follow-up to one of the most passionately celebrated debut albums of the 21st century. This was the daunting task facing Australian band The ...

Named after Yoshimi P-we, the drummer of Japanese band The Boredoms (who appears throughout the album), Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots sought to capture the delicate duality of life and death, ...