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The New York multi-instrumentalist, who has played with Philip Glass and Steve Reich, shows great flair for making minimalism rich and harmonically complex

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The alt-country four-piece have become a staple on BBC 6 Music, with a patchwork sound that folds in The Beatles, The Carpenters, and Fiona Apple. On the cusp of their headline tour, the band decamp to the pub with Megan Graye to talk all things touring, songwriting – and the…

With exhilarating pace and fury, the Drivers License singer castigates her leeching ex, flipping the sexist stereotype of a female gold digger and cementing her superstar status

With her revenge anthem Kill Bill hitting US No 1 this week, the SOS singer brings something far more intense than the easily digestible break-up songs of Miley Cyrus and co

SAN DIEGO — The members of Nickel Creek have won Grammy Awards, sold millions of albums, toured the world, earned critical acclaim and collaborated with everyone from Yo-Yo Ma, Dolly Parton and The Killers to Lyle Lovett, Fiona Apple and Brad Mehldau. In 2007, the group became the first act…

Staring into the abyss – the bush humming around us – I finally understood how Tim Winton must feel at all times

Andrew Slater remembers explaining to Lisa Marie Presley how this whole thing was going to work.

LOS ANGELES — Jon Brion used to look through liner notes with a fear of seeing his name. Actually, the name was OK — it was the list of a dozen or more instruments that inevitably appeared next to his name that he began to dread.

From #sadgirlwalk to dazed stares, misery – or the performance of it – is all over the platform in what some see as a bid for belonging