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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Alice Costelloe has shared her solo debut 'Move On With The Year' in full. The songwriter has been on our radar for a decade now, with Alice Costelloe ...

Record Store Day’s full 2026 inventory has arrived, once again celebrating physical media and the shops that have facilitated ...

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.

Monty Don joins Jo to chat about his new BBC series Monty Don's Rhineland Gardens, and Jo handpicks her favourite new music from all genres of the musical spectrum. To listen on most smart speakers, ...

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, ...

Abbey Road Amplify x Pitchfork London sees artists playing the Pitchfork London festival come into the studios to work with Abbey Road’s engineers and record something new. This year Marika Hackman ...

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, ...