"I never had an album where I needed songwriting more than I needed it on ‘Tortured Poets.'”The post Taylor Swift says writing new album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ was a “lifeline” appeared first on NME.

Cassette sales are still a very small fraction of the recorded music retail market — just 0.41% of all albums sold in the US last year — but sales have been steadily rising for the past decade, fueled in part by a nostalgia factor among younger listeners and limited-edition runs from major artists. It will come as no surprise...

"I want to be as creative as possible with the acoustic set moving forward"The post Taylor Swift scraps “no repeats” rule for surprise songs during ‘Eras’ tour appeared first on NME.

The popstar performed the rendition on her second night in MelbourneThe post Watch Taylor Swift debut surprise mashup of ‘Getaway Car’, ‘August’ and ‘The Other Side of the Door’ appeared first on NME.

On Friday, Taylor Swift played her first Australian Eras Tour show at Melbourne Cricket Ground. The set’s surprise songs were “Red” and, for the first time “You’re Losing Me,” a bonus track from her Album Of The Year Grammy-winning Midnights.