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Acclaimed pianist Arthur Hanlon talks about the newest editions to his ‘Legados’ series, what inspired him to start playing Latin music, working with other…

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Groomed to be a 60s pop star, the singer instead headed for the Hebrides in a horse-drawn cart and then withdrew from music for 30 years. She recalls those fraught, naive but incomparable years

A new compilation from 4AD called Bills & Aches & Blues features artists from the label’s roster covering songs from throughout the label’s 40-year archive. Today, a new batch of songs from that collection has been shared: The selection includes Helado Negro covering Deerhunter’s “Futurism,” Tune-Yards playing the Breeders’ “Cannonball,” Bing & Ruth’s rendition of Pixies’ “Gigantic,” Spencer.’s version of Grimes’ “Genes...

4AD reached its 40th anniversary as a label last year, and as a belated celebration, it has announced the new covers compilation Bills & Aches & Blues. The collection is out April 2 digitally with vinyl LPs and CDs following on July 23 and a deluxe vinyl box set coming later this year. The first five songs from the compilation are out now—listen to Tkay Maidza covering Pixies, the Breeders covering His Name Is Alive,  U.S. Girls covering the Birthday Party, Aldous Harding covering Deerhunte...

Fergal Kinney , March 1st, 2021 09:31 On the 20th anniversary of their one and only studio album, Any Other City, 
Fergal Kinney speaks to Life Without Buildings about their short productive life and their incredibly long tail In pop music, and the cottage industry set up to auto-mythologise it, there’s little premium higher than the small coterie of bands whose skimpy discographies are inverse to their XXL influence – Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Young Marble Giants, Slint, Television. You...