Although starkly different to the previous release, Big Thief struck a chord with 'Not', evoking an unsuspecting comfort even in the dark perils of existence.

On her tenth album, 'I Inside the Old Year Dying', PJ Harvey returned to her Dorset roots to deliver some of her most arresting poetry.

Bob Dylan has consistently picked Shot of Love as his favourite Bob Dylan album in interviews over the years, so why is this era of his career so overlooked?

Norah Jones refused to be pigeon-holed as the soundtrack for soft-focused teenage romances and so made a gritty album chronicling her heartbreak.

Counting down the ten all-time greatest solo songs by former Jam and Style Council songwriter Paul Weller, whose solo work spans countless styles and eras.

The path Matt Damon walked to the Coen brothers began in 1994 when he starred in a TV movie with Tommy Lee Jones and Frances McDormand - Joel's wife.

The centre point of 'The Idler Wheel...' is Fiona Apple at her most musically dexterous and emotionally crushing, delivering her finest qualities in full.

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A look into the album roll out for the My Chemical Romance masterpiece 'The Black Parade' and how the first show of its tour nearly started a riot.

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Frank Zappa seemed to life his life with a free spirit, but not so much with the competition between himself and another prog rock band he "resented".