Daily Newsletter, November 25, 2023

Listening to ‘The Recently Beautiful’ you realise that Van Tassel has both the capability and inventiveness to present such complex musical ideas in a very short time span, which is quite a feat actually.

In this month's subscriber essay, novelist Richard Milward travels back 55 years to the cobblestone-strewn streets of Paris, the release of France Gall's album 1968, and discovers how a time of political upheaval had a profound impact on the happy-go-lucky genre of yé-yé

The Beatles utilised Peter Jackson's AI technology to bring John Lennon back from the dead for their final song 'Now and Then'. What does that say for music?

If you've somehow missed Tom Petty's best songs—the ones even casual fans of music need to hear—we've got you covered.

Al Green producer Willie Mitchell: "The main thing is, Al could sing in tune. Once he got a hook on a song, it was hard to beat him."

Any good rock record is a labour of love, but the fallout of these albums was too much for any of these acts to sustain for too long.

The Finnish quartet fuse post-punk, cosmic music, and black metal into a heady brew that just gets weirder and weirder, deeper and deeper, darker and darker, finds Enrico Monacelli

From Biz Markie to Brian Jones, from Wham! to Milli Vanilli, mixtapes and amazing album art, here are 10 recent music docs you can watch now.

The best music-related books of 2023 include bios and memoirs associated with the Allmans, Sly Stone, Dylan, Karen Carpenter and much more!

From Nick Cave to Vashti Bunyan and Broadcast, we've compiled a list of lesser-known records perfect for winter and wrapped them up in a cosy playlist.