The long read: More and more singers are cancelling big shows and turning to surgery to fix their damaged vocal cords. But is the problem actually down to the way they sing?

Sean O’Neal: In the topic of “Worst Music Year,” 1997 is a frequent contender. Some of this can be attributed to distaste for a single genre—boy bands and the Spice Girls, mostly, whose dominance was complete anathema to anyone who’d spend the earlier part of the decade convinced the alt-rock “revol

Eminem is reportedly set to release his ninth album later this year, after previously teasing that he was back in the studio. The rap icon, who previously released The Marshall Mathers LP 2 in 2013, will release his latest album this autumn, according to industry insiders HITS Daily Double.

Nathaniel Glover, who performed as Kidd Creole in Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, has been arrested for the murder of a homeless man in New York.

In the 1930s, Pitirim A. Sorokin and J. W. Boldyreff conducted the most interesting experiment1. They told their participants that they are going to play two variations of the same theme by two

Though many have tried, no online ticket sellers have even come close to touching Ticketmaster. It doesn’t hurt that its parent company is Live Nation, which owns or operates many of the bigg…

"HEY. I DID AN HOUR LONG IGLOOGHOST RADIO SHOW ON Rinse FM! MY LITTLE SISTER INTERVIEWED ME."

Tech firms have developed AI that can learn how to write music. So will machines soon be composing symphonies, hit singles and bespoke soundtracks?

Official music video for "You Will Know The Lion By His Claw" from the CRADLE OF FILTH album, Cryptoriana - The Seductiveness of Decay, out Sept. 22nd via Nuclear Blast Records.

Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington took his own life at the age of 41.

New tool helps archaeologists “hear” history. By Giorgia Guglielmi.

Toto's official music video for 'Africa'.

R.E.M.

“The dream of visual dynamism is the same; to leave behind earthbound stasis and to fly into that liquid space of numerical architecture without gravity” – John Whitney

Owl City

Official video for "Perfect Places" off the album 'Melodrama' out now.

Nicci Gerrard, the co-founder of John’s Campaign, on a new parliamentary report that confirms the profoundly beneficial role of the arts in helping people with dementia.

Garbage

‘25 million plays, and zero dollars’

Justin Bieber mysteriously canceled the remainder of his massive 'Purpose' world tour.

R.E.M.

An argument for taking pop music seriously.

The rapper Prodigy, who made up one half of the group Mobb Deep, has died aged 42. The hip hop star, whose real name is Albert Johnson, was on tour in Las Vegas performing with the "Art of Rap" tour alongside Ghostface Killah, Onyx, KRS-One, and Ice-T, amongst others. Mobb Deep performed Saturday.

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Due to the space-time continuum and physics and stuff, we will all wake up one day and something will alert us to a distressing bit of news: we are old. Maybe it’s finding that first white hair, or changing your bedtime to 10pm, or not being able to drink without a hangover. Maybe it’s a post telling you that the Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” is old enough to legally drink in this country.

The Bahamas catastrophe could make it harder for an entire industry to insure events already known for risky behavior.

Hinds

Not new or anything, just brings back good memories :)

They combine tunes at musically similar places, like the world’s biggest deejays. By Ed Yong.