Daily Newsletter, January 18, 2023

Remember these names — they'll likely be headlining festivals and tours left and right someday soon.

Atlas Obscura · Frieda Hempel's 'Evviva la Francia!' If you were listening to recorded music around the turn of the twentieth century, you listened to it on cylinders. Not that anyone alive today was listening to recorded music back then, and much of it has since been lost.

My old Hotmail inbox is a perpetual wasteland of phishing scams, coupon codes, LinkedIn requests, and instantly-deleted press releases. But back in

With just three chords and four leather jackets, the Ramones influenced everyone from the Sex Pistols to Metallica – and here's a guide to their best albums

With Happy Birthday, Stevie Wonder successfully campaigned to honour Martin Luther King Jr with a national holiday, in a career of socially conscious songwriting, writes Diane Bernard.

If the first half of the ‘90s were alt-rock’s boom years — when formerly unknown bands were turning into multi-platinum sensations every few months — then

'His remarkable technique that comes gloved in service of brilliantly original melodic lines articulated with the delicacy of touch normally associated with a concert pianist'

Combining his love of Hawaiian slide guitar with Hindustani classical music has made Debashish Bhattacharya one of John McLaughlin's favourite guitarists

Here are the most transformative titles from almost 40 years of the Sundance Film Festival, from Blood Simple to Get Out

Apologies: rumor has it you’re already up to your ears in books to read in 2023. But you can’t spend all your time reading. So for the evenings you’d rather be mowing down the pop…