Darkest year in rock: 15 records that traded arena-rock excess for a cold, claustrophobic exploration of collapse, paranoia, and shadow ...

Kate Bush’s The Dreaming: dismissed as 'mad' on release, now hailed as a radical masterpiece of sound, vision, and daring ...

Whether it is due to Jim Morrison’s polarizing poetry, the perceived self-indulgence of a twenty-minute synth solo, or the ...

Leaving behind late 1960s idealism, these 13 acts weaponized volume, occult imagery, and psychological dread to define the sound of menace ...

A debut album is often the purest, most unadulterated artistic statement a band will ever make. Forged in years of obscurity, honed in countless cramped clubs, and recorded with an almost desperate ...

Among the 2026 RPS Awards winners are singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer Jacob Collier, soprano Louise Alder, Sinfonia of London conductor John Wilson, composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and ...

In celebration of the release of his own 'Shakespeare Songs', Nimrod Borenstein lists his five favourite musical settings of The Bard ...

The dissolution of a legendary band is rarely the simple 'creative differences' thing. More often, it is a high-stakes drama fueled by the very friction that made the music great in the first place.

From jangling indie to late-’90s pop, these bands left their mark with a single unforgettable hit that defined then forever more ...

Rock's uniquely colourful story is littered with moments that just make you scratch your head in bewilderment. These are 12 ...

Not every reunion rocks. 13 legendary bands tried to recapture the magic – and proved some breakups should stay permanent ...

From the smooth gold of Laurel Canyon to the polished perfection of AOR, here are the 21 definitive soft rock masterpieces ...