‘I Will Survive’: How Gloria Gaynor’s classic empowerment anthem came to reflect the singer’s ongoing hardships
An ode to empowerment.
Music Archives: 07/2024
Dave Matthews protests against Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to US Congress: “I’m ashamed”
“I’m ashamed that my tax dollars are going to the brutalising of an entire people.”
“Confront a corpse at least once”: exploring David Bowie’s obsession with death as an art form
The place beyond basic human cognition.
From Tom Waits to Ma Rainey: The five best songs ever written about hangovers
Ballads for a broken mind.
The concert Stevie Nicks forced Tom Petty to play: “You’re not going to cancel”
“It changed the channel”
Dave Grohl on the most brilliant musician he worked with: “Genius at everything”
The art of being a musical god.
The Rolling Stones song Keith Richards called true rock and roll: “It comes so naturally”
“That’s what rock and roll records are all about…”
‘St Trinian’s Sword’: the tale of a lost Led Zeppelin song
The lost tape that never got fleshed out.