Daily Newsletter, September 26, 2025

The long list for this year's SAY Award has been confirmed. The annual prize honours the best in Scottish music, celebrating the past 12 months of

Having defined the two-tone scene with their debut album, The Specials founder Jerry Dammers pushed the band to stranger realms on 1980's superior follow-up.

As far as we know, Scott Walker and David Bowie never met, yet influence and respect travelled between them in odd ways

Is the largest streaming service in the world in trouble? Musical artists cannot seem to stop leaving Spotify.

One of the great talents of the 20th century. Without him there’s no bossa nova:� Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim � (25 January 1927 – 8 December 1994), also known as � Tom Jobim �..

Homer Dudley, an American engineer and scientist, may have always wanted to make his mark on the technological world but didn't expect it to reshape music.

Pharoah Sanders: The Complete Pharoah Sanders Theresa Recordings (Mosaic Records MD7 – 282) As his 11 ecstatic, tumultuous outings with Impulse! Records recorded between 1966 and 1973 ran their course, saxophonist Pharoah Sanders stood back a bit in the late 1960s to take stock of his career, recording single albums for Strata-East and India Navigation […]

Our basket of brilliant reviews this week includes Kathryn Schulz on Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket, Ron Charles on Lily King’s Heart the Lover, Arwa Mahdawi on Kamala Harris’ 107…

The FADER's weekly roundup of the best new songs including Cardi B's "Bodega Baddie," RAYE's "Where Is My Husband!," Nine Inch Nail's "Who Wants To Live Forever," and more.