What makes a good love song? For some people, it’s the lyrics but for others the melody is more important. The very best love songs have the power to transcend generations.

"For those in-between moments of reflection and meditation". Maisie Roscoe curates a playlist for the Lunar New Year.

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Squid took on Talk Talk's 1985 classic "Life's What You Make It" – one of the most elevated pop songs of the 80 as part of their secret session for Best Fit at last year's End of the Road Festival.

After the birth of her daughter, Laura Marling thought it might be the end of the road for her songwriting career. "I guess I'd been programmed to think parenthood or motherhood was the end of desire, ...

With its dreamy, scaled-back production, the album ends up presenting an understated pronatalism—a rare work of contemporary art that portrays motherhood in an almost exclusively positive light ...

Song for Our Daughter, the title of the British singer-songwriter Laura Marling's 2020 album, was a shrewd prediction. Marling gave birth to a daughter in 2023, and her recently released eighth album, ...

Musician Laura Marling faces her younger self as she talks about her new album — Patterns in Repeat. It was all recorded in her living room when her daughter was an infant. The British ...

This FUV Live session is also available as a podcast, "FUV Live Sessions." We're elevating WFUV's long history of live sessions and interviews via a podcast that you can find on Spotify, Apple ...

For the better part of the past decade-and-a-half, Laura Marling has been releasing albums at a prolific pace, becoming one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters from the British “nu-folk” scene in ...