His name might not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world. Today, we take a journey through the life and work of Yip Harburg, the Broadway lyricist who wrote such ...

Because there's the rub: Motorhead united the tribes, inspired extreme metal (there's a reason we chose Overkill as their ...

"It's remarkable that you can have a culture that's shunted into the west side of England that has nothing to do with the ...

"It's remarkable that you can have a culture that's shunted into the west side of England that has nothing to do with the English at all" ...

Peso Pluma (real name Hassan Emilio Kabande Laija) and Tito Double P (real name Jesús Roberto Laija) might have been second ...

Scottish pop culture from Lewis Capaldi, Calvin Harris, Young Fathers and Franz Ferdinand to good old Deacon Blue, Idlewild, Mogwai and Garbage. But will they over the next four days feature in this ...

This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...

Blues grew from Delta labor life, then spread along river and rail routes into bigger stages and wider audiences. The post ...

Harry Styles shared a tender video featuring an unreleased song from the final date of his 2023 tour, with a message to fans: 'We belong together.' ...

Just like that, 2025 has come to a close. It has been another year of brilliant music: lets be honest, it's hard to have a ...

"How dare he?" said Paul McCartney of Sting's 1992 hit, which was written for wife Trudie Styler. "I told him [Sting]: ‘You ...

The watermelons of our summers are not the watermelons of yesteryear, as demonstrated by a 17th-century painting by Italian artist Giovanni Stanchi. The Renaissance still life depicts a sliced ...