Justin K. Broadrick is one of the great restless spirits in the history of heavy, aggressive music. With bands like Napalm Death and Godflesh, Broadrick spent the '80s and '90s inventing new forms and expanding genre boundaries. Since 2004, Broadrick has been releasing sad, blurry, personal music under the name Jesu. (Jesu is a shifting…

Love it or hate it, the "Blurred Lines" case became a signature moment this past decade after Pharrell Williams, Robin Thicke, and a song publisher were ordered to pay nearly $5 million for infringing the copyright to Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give It Up." The 2015 jury verdict, largely upheld last year on appeal, signaled…

Earlier this summer, something remarkable happened. In the middle of Post Malone's blockbuster genre-blurred album Hollywood's Bleeding, Ozzy Osbourne, iconic metal wailer and doddering TV dad, showed up on what was basically an old-school lighters-up power ballad. And he sounded incredible. This guy was out here looking like shambling death on ...

"[It] really set me back"Pharrell Williams performs livePharrell Williams has reflected on the ‘Blurred Lines’ copyright case in a new interview, revealing that he disagrees with the verdict. Back in 2015, a federal jury ruled that Robin Thicke and Williams’ hit single shared similarities to Marvin Gaye‘s ‘...

Early last year, Blur's Graham Coxon contributed a twangy, folksy, acoustic number called "Walking All Day" to the soundtrack of Netflix's The End Of The Fucking World. The series' second season is out now, and with it comes two more Coxon recordings.