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Max Richter is one of the most influential figures on the contemporary music scene, producing groundbreaking work as a recording artist, composer, pianist, and collaborator....

Get Happy!! was the album on which Elvis Costello got soul. The old-school, time-honored rhythm and blues variety of soul music had been an important...

“We was thinking about Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Brahms… but maybe we should have had a little bit more Brown.” James Brown, “Dead On It,”...

Their second album and a stone-cold thriller, The Temptations Sing Smokey had a chemistry that could hardly fail. At the time of its release, on...

When it comes to the world of metal music, the best metal debut albums not only require raw power and mastery of instrument, but the...

Frank Zappa’s 1974 album Apostrophe (‘) is one of the composer’s defining records. Firstly, there’s that sleeve image; half-hair and moustache, half Zappa looking intensely...