Daily Newsletter, September 25, 2023

Music history has many haunting unsolved mysteries.

It happened 32 years ago today. On a Tuesday. All was quiet on the Sunset Strip. The longhaired, Spandex-clad metal dinosaurs were fat, arrogant and sleepy. They didn’t notice the indie-rock meteor hurtling out of the sky directly at them. Even if they had spotted it, they probably couldn’t have cared less — couldn’t have […]

On Laugh Track, The National remain as bold as ever by plugging the sounds of a 20-year catalog into 12 of their best songs in six years. Read our review.

When it came to recording Abraxas, Santana wanted to expend more effort, and make a better-sounding record, than their somewhat rushed debut.

He’s in his eighties. How does he keep it fresh?

Eddy Grant has overcome a heart problem and life-threatening car crash to become one of music's best-loved figures.

Multiple sessions, countless takes and a drunken Brian Jones – how Jimi Hendrix claimed All Along The Watchtower as his own

Encompassing some of the grittiest films from the genre, many classic westerns were revenge-themed. These are our picks for the best ones.

Featuring new titles by Anne Enright, Jonathan Raban, Daniel Mason, and more

Pro tip: If you’re going to go interview a bunch of rich old white guys for your next book and ignore women, people of colour and everybody else, don’t — let me repeat, DO NOT — talk to journalists about it. Or at least come up with less idiotic answers than Jann Wenner did. Assuming […]