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Inventive and surprising, the band have turned grief into one of their best albums for 20 years

The best Apple TV Plus movies may not be as notorious as its hit shows, but the streaming service continues to offer a lineup that emphasizes quality over quantity.

How "Hallelujah" an unlikely standard by a Leonard Cohen, a Jewish Buddhist, got cast as a Christmas hit.

Contributor Louise Gray selects ten pieces of writing from The Wire ’s back pages featuring Diamanda Galás, John Cale, Éliane Radigue, Shirley Collins, and more. All selected articles are available to read in The Wire ’s digital library with a...

Disgusted with Britain’s ‘cruel’ aristocracy, Michael Zilkha left to champion a generation of party-starting punk-funk bands. As he returns as a book publisher, he remembers that wild scene

The Velvet Underground, American band of the 1960s whose primal guitar sound and urban noir lyrics, influenced by avant-garde art and modern literature, inspired the punk and alternative rock movements of the 1970s and ’80s. The principal members were Lou Reed (original name Lewis Allan Reed; b. March 2, 1942, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—d. October 27, 2013, Southampton, New York), John Cale (b. March 9, 1942, Garnant, Wales), Sterling Morrison (in full Holmes Sterling Morrison; b. August 29, ...

Patti Smith, in full Patti Lee Smith, (born December 30, 1946, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American poet, rock songwriter, and singer. Growing up in New Jersey, Smith won an art scholarship to Glassboro State Teachers College. In 1967 she moved to New York City, where she became active in the downtown Manhattan arts scene, writing poetry and living with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Her performance-driven poetry readings soon took on a musical component, and from 1971 she worked regularly...

With a Happy New Beer from my Music Newsdesk, let's have a quick look at albums we can expect between now and springtime.

A new archival collection inspired by the late Lou Reed called 'Words & Music May 1965' has just been released.