Sultans of Swing” gives Dire Straits its first streaming hit in the U.K., as renewed interest in Mark Knopfler's work seems ...

Rounding out our spotlight on Portishead this week, for today’s Weirdo Wednesday, we’re looking at the peculiarly unsettling ...

The Beatles land two tracks in the U.K. top 40 this week, with “Now and Then” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand” proving their ...

Beth Gibbons has never been a chatty frontperson, and her shy, reserved stage presence has been part of the appeal since the ...

Alison Moyet’s career began with a bang. After her eighties peak - post-Yazoo - she became the UK’s best-selling female solo artist ...

This 50-track history of the iconic Canadian trio functions equally well as an introduction for the uninitiated or a companion piece for the superfan Rush 50 does right by Rutsey, especially via ...

For the eighth consecutive year, Finland has topped the World Happiness Report, leading the rankings alongside its Nordic neighbors. https://p.dw.com/p/4s22S Sharing ...

A new British film has been hailed as ‘one of the greatest of all time’ by rom-com legend Richard Curtis. The Love, Actually director heaped praise onto The Ballad of Wallis Island ...

In last week’s UK album chart, the highest-positioned British band was Oasis with their greatest hits collection. The Manchester band’s 1994 debut Definitely Maybe was also the UK’s top ...

Front and centre among this new guard of innovators were Portishead, another Bristol-based trio consisting of vocalist Beth Gibbons and multi-instrumentalists Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley. Releasing ...

The 64-year-old pop legend admits she would love to get the call from organiser Emily Eavis to play the Sunday afternoon legends slot on the Pyramid Stage and be able to sing her greatest hits ...