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.

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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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On Nov. 1 in Washburn, a memorial dedication ceremony was held for the 29 crew members who lost their lives aboard the Fitz just ahead of the 50th anniversary of its sinking.

Before it met its demise 50 years ago, the ore freighter commissioned by Northwestern Mutual was the rock star of Great Lakes shipping.

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