As she releases a box set of her earliest recordings, in a rare interview Mitchell talks about life before fame, the correct way to sing her songs – and her long struggle to walk and talk again after an aneurysm

Jamaica’s reggae megastar received a hero’s welcome when he came home after seven years in a US jail. ‘No guts, no glory – that’s my genesis,’ he says in a rare interview

John Newton was sold as crew to a slave ship, enslaved for a time and later became an abolitionist. While on a ship Newton was one of the most profane men the captain had ever met. In a culture where sailors habitually swore, Newton was admonished several times for not only using the worst words the captain had ever heard, but creating new ones to exceed the limits of verbal debauchery.

Create your own musical instrument at home! Join Katie Palmer, MIM's Curator of Education, for a fun, easy to do washboard and spoons instrument craft that you can do at home.

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- A Dose of Buckley

Nick Broomfield's latest documentary explores the romance between Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen. But the film fails to confront the harder truths of the license taken by, and conceded to, creative men.

The Swedish company Teenage Engineering has won over kids — and professionals — with a revolutionary idea for a synthesizer: Make it simple.

Steven Tyler, Julien Baker, Ben Harper, Jason Isbell, Joe Walsh, and more share their stories.

A new study has confirmed the suspicions of conservative drivers everywhere, revealing that listening to heavy metal music can directly cause bad driving.

For all you guitar players out there.

Last year, a very strange thing happened in the copyright space: a pretty major update to copyright law was passed and it wasn't that controversial. Leading up to that passage there had been plenty of concerns, but a compromise was worked out...

Member of revered session team the Wrecking Crew played on recordings from Simon & Garfunkel, the Byrds, the Ronettes

It shocked the critics, pushed one actor to the edge of sanity and established Mick Jagger as rock's prince of darkness. And now we know what really happened during its much-rumoured production.