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It’s the era of a star turn: guest collaborations, with acts turning up on other artists’ records, are now so commonplace that many chart entries...

Old-school reggae fans didn’t understand dancehall. This noisy, brash music came along in the 80s with a raw, street-driven sound and, for a while, made...

We will never know who wrote the first blues song. And even using the term “wrote” is a misnomer. What is absolutely certain is that...

Metallica may be more about multi-platinum albums than Top 10 hit songs, but it was on August 10, 1991 that that they entered the UK...

Nicki Minaj opened her fourth studio album, Queen, in dramatic fashion: “Who you gettin’ at Nicki?” she asks, before responding, “Watch them c__ts learn.” From...

The latter-day reappraisal of Giorgio Moroder by the modern club community has been deserving recognition of one of the great dance music producers and creators we’ve ever known....