Three years ago, leathery immortal Iggy Pop reaffirmed his rock-god bona fides, teaming up with Queens Of The Stone Age leader Josh Homme to release the tense, sweaty comeback Post Pop Depression. But last week, Pop released Free, a new album that veers off into a completely different direction. Pop recorded Free with Sarah Lipstate,…

"Live Forever is always the title."It’s been 10 years since Oasis split, but Noel Gallagher believes that the band’s iconic tunes could be immortalised in a musical. The Manchester icons famously split in 2009 when ongoing tensions between Noel and Liam reached their climax during a festival show in Paris. While a reunion loo...

A big mood 4 evaBeyoncéA photo of Beyoncé has been chosen to be put on display as part of a permanent art exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum in Washington, D.C. On Wednesday (August 7), photographer Tyler Mitchell revealed on Instagram that a portrait he had taken of the pop star for Vogue’s September 2018 issue was being acquired...

If you are old enough, then you remember Semisonic, the Minneapolis alt-rock trio best known for the immortal 1998 ballad "Closing Time." If you're not, then you have, at the very least, encountered "Closing Time" in the wild, possibly while drunk at some bar's last call. Semisonic went dormant in 2001, shortly after bricking with…

Forty years ago this weekend, Chic released one of music's great historical delineation points (and a mother of a dancefloor-filler). "Good Times" is more than just a song, even though it'd be immortal if a song was all it was: widely considered the last #1 of the disco era before the industry backlash/burnout on the…