This week’ on Essential Music, we revisit classic April releases through the decades. Plus new music from Brandi & Elton, Wet ...

The Arkansas indie rock band's performance at 6 Music Festival last year was their first UK performance in four years. They ...

Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan holds many eclectic guiding inspirations, but there was one unconventional album in particular that changed his life. Read more here.

Gahan approaches his renditions first and foremost as a fan, with every track filled with evident love, which makes for an incredibly affectionate album and arguably the perfect foil for his rich, ...

Taylor Swift has returned to Instagram for her first post in over 100 days to pay tribute to her best friend Selena Gomez's new album with fiance Benny Blanco. On Saturday March 22, Taylor took to ...

The cover photo for Mike Skinner's debut album was taken in 1995 by Rut Blees Luxemburg, a German photographer who studied in London. Kestrel House was opened in 1968 and lies on the main road ...

Eric Church will release his new album, the curiously titled Evangeline ... includes the previously released “Darkest Hour,” a cover of Tom Waits’ “Clap Hands,” off 1985’s Rain Dogs ...

Brian Eno released his surprise new album, Aurum, Thursday exclusively on Apple Music, with the LP making use of the service’s spatial-audio technology. “Talking about AI itself, I’ve always ...

He describes Polari as his most meaningful artistic project to date, a 13-song compilation of Depeche Mode-adjacent ... That’s what the album is—just about itself and about expressing myself.

After a day of what’s become regular hate-ranting on X (formerly Twitter), Kanye West took a break to release his new album “Bully” via different full-length versions of a film with editing ...

They say don’t judge an album by its cover, but for artists and fans alike, sometimes it’s just impossible not to obsess over the packaging. Whether it’s an intimate portrait, abstract ...

Radiohead have shared a new playlist to mark 30 years of The Bends. The band's sophomore album turned 30 on 15th March and to celebrate, Thom Yorke and co have "pulled together all the songs ...