The Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved

The glitzy pianist, who famously hid his sexuality, was dismissed as a "vulgar joke" in his lifetime. But a new play gets to the truth of who he was, in private as well as in public.

The years-long project to discredit fact-based media and replace it with MAGA slop has been disastrously successful.

For nearly 30 years, part of Sonoma was ruled by Tsarist Russia, and it played a pivotal – if little-known – role in shaping the US.

A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.

The maverick former Public Image Ltd bassist takes us on a typically picaresque journey through his ‘Kafka-esque’ days at Transport for London, being named by Sid Vicious and his spiritual learnings

After a successful trial on Voyager 2, NASA plans to execute its “big bang” power diversion on humanity’s most distant space probe.

In 1966, a Mexican-American teen band made one of the great smash-hit singles and helped invent garage rock, a genre that has inspired artists for decades.

'A brilliant musician, a great singer, and a fantastically charismatic and intense character, who always gave his utmost in everything he did.'

A story about the composer with 656 fake names, where DSPs are going, and an honest review about my two weeks on Qobuz

Wrongtom revisits the febrile weekend in 1981 when 'Ghost Town' by The Specials got to #1 in the UK charts.

Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost

Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it.

Direct Relief is responding to earthquakes that rocked the country on June 24, causing significant fatalities and injuries. The organization is communicating with local and regional organizations a…

The late production genius’s chaotic reputation has always preceded him. But could two new books, a posthumous album and a flurry of classic reissues change all that – and put the focus back on his mu...

The Fifa president has prostrated the organisation before Donald Trump and lost control of his own tournament as a result

His deep, immersive writing had moral stakes and changed people’s lives.

Graham, who died Friday, began his music career when he dropped out of law school at the University of Texas to join the Skunks, where he opened for bands like the Clash and the Ramones.

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Loop is an award-winning animated short featuring a society where people live a perfectly looping existence, all in rhythm. Then one day…

For decades, the charismatic singer-songwriter Joe Ely made music that sounded like all of Texas. In the months before his death, everything got very quiet.

This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.

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Millions of Americans depend on Obamacare. Here's where they live.

A new biography on the New Wave crew underlines their unsung importance—everyone from the Strokes to the Killers to Nirvana took lessons out of Ric Ocasek’s playbook. So why are the Cars rarely mentio...

When something dies, a telltale radioactive signal ticks like a natural clock. Discovering it helped us solve all sorts of natural mysteries.

"People Watching"LISTEN: APPLE · SPOTIFY · AMAZON · OTHER APPSSam Fender is a singer and songwriter from the town of North Shields in England. He won the Brit Award for Best Rock/

The David Bowie Center in London is a new home for the singer’s 90,000-item archive. It holds the key to the pop star’s dramatic reinventions.

Has someone told you to “go to hell?” If so, let us direct you to these potential portals to the underworld.

Read Alex Robert Ross’ review of the album.

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Canadian Americana maven continues her impeccable ‘comeback’, with added Isbell. Listening to the powerful and joyous declaration that is “Billionaire” it is almost impossible to believ…

A rural electronics whiz broadcasts radio signals into space and monitors for signs of aliens, but makes a more important connection here on Earth.

MIT economist David Autor first documented the loss of millions of jobs to Chinese imports a decade ago. Now he sees an even more serious danger if the US loses the race for advanced manufacturing.

Meteorologists say that fewer weather balloon launches means less accurate forecast data, which is especially hazardous during storm season.

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Joe Strummer's widow says he "absolutely loved" the festival.

Springsteen breaks down his new box set 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums,' reveals he has a new solo album in the can, and looks to the future.

Read Elizabeth Nelson’s review of the album.

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