Songs of innocence and experience
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Arts & entertainment: PJ Harvey sings like a child on her new, stripped-down album, but it's full of grim subject matter. She talks to John Harris.
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Two new story collections explore young deaths, sexual infidelities, and unraveling marriages.
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Terms and Conditions of Music And Lyrics.
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Lorraine Feather offers songs that are cheerful tugs of war between the past and the present that are performed with a conversational ease.
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The region's music is fresher than ever. If you haven't checked out these artists yet, you'll be doing so soon
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âRiver: The Joni Letters,â by Herbie Hancock can be understood as a celebration of the academyâs more high-minded pop impulses.
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Reader Satyendra Jha shares his memories.
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From Hawaii to the Philadelphia suburbs, community sings, or singalongs, draw together the average-voiced and bring old songs into common memory.
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U2 created an ambitious album that was ready to take on the world. The year also saw noteworthy records by Youssou N'Dour, Animal Collective, Bjork and others.
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Poems written by a young Indian AIDS patient describing the shame and fear he felt after being diagnosed with the disease have been recorded by a top pop band to help tackle the prejudice sufferers face.
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There is not always agreement between the piano and the voice in Schubertâs song cycle âDie SchÃ¶ne MÃ¼llerin.â
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The songs on her new album deal with the death of her mother and the breakup of a love affair--and thatâs the good news.
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Though the album has its moments, it's not entirely enticing.
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Making Records: The Scenes Behind the Music, By Phil Ramone
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Truly a compelling contemporary musical feast by Rajhesh Vaidhya.
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An eclectic array of collaborators has given new life to the lyrics a folk trailblazer left behind. A rare concert recording has surfaced too.
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The videocassette in film: an unsettling innovation, a romanticized artifact, an LP in an MP3 world.