New anniversary edition of Elvis Costello's 1977 debut album My Aim Is True charts his remarkable evolution over 104 wildly ...

As Elastica's debut album gets a deluxe reissue, drummer Justin Welch looks back at the Britpop outliers' rise and fall, and ponders a possible reunion.

When Jarvis Cocker rhymes “vicars” with “knickers” a couple of songs after dropping a reference to Ingmar Bergman into the end of Spike Island, it soon becomes apparent that at least one of Pulp’s ...

In 2005, it was calculated that Queen had become the most successful ever act in Britain’s album chart with a total of 1,322 weeks on the chart, while The Beatles could manage only 1,293. Admirers ...

Though famously home to Ritchie Blackmore’s “Can we have everything louder than everything else?” quip, Made In Japan opens sedately, Purple deploying an orchestra-like tune-up before Highway Star ...

In 1963, a couple of years before he joined the band that would become the Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh was an aspiring composer, working on a piece called Foci that required four orchestras – 123 players ...

Paul McCartney has announced details of a brand-new solo album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, out May 29 on MPL/Capitol Records. The record – his first new solo album in over five years – is previewed ...

After 12 years in dry dock, Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant finally set sail again on the Bunnymen's latest voyage.

We've compiled a list of the top 100 indispensable tracks from Berry Gordy’s pop and soul powerhouse. From "Little" Stevie Wonder and The Jackson 5 to Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, The Marvelettes and ...

Despite a combined age of 173, longtime compadres and Farm Aid co-founders still deliver at the top of their game.

With Freddie Mercury vowing not to record any more albums for Elektra, whom he felt were underselling Queen in the US, the hiatus would also give the band time to shop around for a new recording deal ...