How Minneapolis made Prince
Minneapolis’ story began with a struggle over land
Music
Why are pop songs getting sadder than they used to be?
The rise of negative lyrics in popular English-language songs is a fascinating phenomenon
‘The Wall’ cemented Pink Floyd’s fame – but destroyed the band
It marked the last time the four members of the band would record an album together
The Futurism of Hip Hop
Space, Electro and Science Fiction in Rap
What lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history
The story of the Blue Notes is inextricable from apartheid’s exiling of the musical imagination
Music that you help make: composition for video gaming draws on tradition and tech
Anchored by history and tradition, and enabled by cutting edge technology
Beatles: Abbey Road at 50 is a marker of how pop music grew up in the 1960s
Even at the end, they continued to point the way forward
It’s wrong to cut and paste Global North policies onto Africa’s music industries
People make, distribute, and consume music differently in Liberia
Bruce Springsteen: an Aristotle for our times
‘I wanted to hear, and I wanted to know the whole American story.’
Katy Perry liable for US$2.8m for Dark Horse ‘copyright infringement’ – but the real loser is the music industry
Copyright should only protect original unique creative expression