From B-sides to outtakes and live cuts, here's our rundown of 20 lesser-spotted Bruce Spingsteen gems

At 83, McCartney is looking back for his 18th solo LP, to formative flirtations, family singalongs, even his own birth – and the febrile times that mirror our own. It’s given him ‘every hope that we’l...

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

It was New Year’s Eve and there had been fireworks, drinking and dancing. Amid it all, I felt ashen and cold. As I walked out, I felt my first surge of quiet liberation

This Killers’ anthem has spent almost 500 weeks on the UK chart. Its persistence says something about us all

Our critics look back at the cultural year’s highs and lows

After years of poise and perfection, the British singer’s latest album drags pop towards glorious, messy normality

Laura Barton explains five key things that shaped The Boss’s life and music.

Bruce is living above a beauty parlour, broke, writing songs amongst the hairdryers.

Bruce's story begins in the small factory town of Freehold, New Jersey.

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

Bruce's story begins in the small factory town of Freehold, New Jersey.

Greater Manchester mayor also suggests the cabinet needs to more ‘pluralistic’ and less London-centric

With country music newly resurgent, are the US charts having their own American Eagle moment?

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The music industry was already an unforgiving place. Now it’s going to become a whole lot more difficult for new artists

As three male writers are announced as the people behind the new, four-part Beatles biopic – along with director Sam Mendes and stars including Paul Mescal and Barry Keoghan – Laura Barton asks why wo...

Just listen: the UK’s industrial areas have their own noises, rhythms and songs.

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Will the band’s return help bring about a much-needed cultural kind of devolution?

As his lost 70s songs emerge, the Oscar-winner and musician explains how the magic of art keeps him upbeat even after losing homes to LA fires

The musician, who stepped down from a denuded Kennedy Center, has something to teach the president

A personal ear-popping history of Irish and Caribbean people through culture and society.

This month I chat to the amazing comedian, writer and activist Josie Long about her book of short stories Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't. Josie's stories are rich and varied ...

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Laura Barton talks to Will Oldham about recording with some of his heroes, how he writes for his alter ego, and why a song about gun deaths made his legs turn to jelly

An intimate portrait of the musician Robert Wyatt in his own words and music.