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Florence Welch doesn’t find numbers easy. The Florence and the Machine star was diagnosed with both dyslexia and dyscalculia in her youth — two sets of “learning difficulties,” as she often heard them described, inaccurately, during her school years. As she describes in the foreword to “Creative Differences” — a …

A little over 10 years ago, Pete Townshend outlined detailed plans for a new musical he planned on calling Floss. “I want to take on aging and mortality, using the powerfully angry context of rock n roll,” he wrote on the Who‘s website. “Floss is an ambitious new project for …

Kurt Cobain’s rattyMTV Unplugged sweater recently sold at auction for more than $340,000. It’s a jaw-dropping haul for a music-adjacent item… until you consider that “The Scream,” a painting by artist and political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe and the focal point of Pink Floyd‘s The Wall marketing campaign, previously sold for …

“I’ve just done a tour in America with Smashing Pumpkins, and the sight of two goths, one in a Rancid T-shirt, one in a Kiss T-shirt, with their arms around each other, singing “Wonderwall” in Arkansas, is not something you see every day. What is it about that song? It’s …

Hayley Kiyoko has learned a lot in the year-and-a-half since she released her debut album, Expectations. Most of those lessons were learned on the road during the months she spent headlining tours globally. “As an artist, there’s no book on how to survive tour and how to take care of …

First-round Grammy voting is currently underway, and running through October 10th. For our2020 Grammy preview, we asked a series of likely contenders to reflect on their past experiences at the ceremony, look ahead to the future, and break down the albums and singles that could earn them a statue come …

For a band who, technically speaking, never had an actual pop hit, Spoon put together an incredibly strong greatest hits album. The recently released Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon is a reminder that the Austin-based band is one of this century’s most consistent and tuneful acts – …

Raphael Saadiq’s had a hand in a remarkable amount of landmark r&b over the past 30 years, though you may not know it — from his family band Tony! Toni! Toné! in the early ‘90s, through his role in the supergroup Lucy Pearl, and his work on records from D’Angelo’s …

One of Miley Cyrus‘ most underrated periods was her brief, teenage flirtation with rock. When she first began showing the world she was more than a Disney princess, she released the hair metal-tingedCan’t Be Tamed. She has not returned to the genre much since then, opting instead for rap and …

In a world where Lil Nas X has an unbeatable country smash, it’s hard to blame the likes of Maren Morris — who was performing in Texas honky-tonks at the age of 10 — for branching out. In the wake of 2018’s ubiquitous, super-poppy Zedd collaboration “The Middle,” Morris, 29, …