Features

“I had vocal polyps. It was really intense. But I learned how to talk and sing again”: How Snail Mail's Lindsey Jordan made her comeback

By Beth Simpson published 24 March 26

“The craziest thing about it is that people could hear I’d had polyps on my previous albums”

"Apparently it was the one song that got John recording again’”: The story of the last entry in Lennon and McCartney’s musical conversation

By Beth Simpson published 24 March 26

Track apparently inspired Lennon to record Double Fantasy

“Prince had rented out the theatre with free popcorn for everyone”: Cory Wong on the night Prince ditched a jam session for a movie

By Amit Sharma published 23 March 26

“People never knew what they were going to get”

“On the spur of the moment I said, ‘I’m going to do the backing vocals in Spanish’”: How The Clash created their biggest hit

By Amit Sharma published 23 March 26

“It was just a good rockin’ song – our attempt at writing a classic”

A decade on, we look back at the musical theory and retro gear that shaped Bruno Mars’ 2016 classic

By Roland Schmidt published 21 March 26

Exploring how one of Bruno Mars’ biggest tunes works on a musical level - and revealing its debt to the 1980s

“George didn’t want it to be so overtly serious”: The story of the Travelling Wilburys, the supergroup that made it all look fun

By Will Simpson published 21 March 26

Their first single was recorded in Bob Dylan’s garage

We tried to vibe code a custom looper pedal with Polyend Endless – here's what happened

By Si Truss published 20 March 26

Polyend founder Piotr Raczyński explains the tech behind the company's eye-catching effects pedal and its text-to-code assistant Playground

“People told me they heard it at weddings – with a guy singing it at the organ. Oh God!”: Bryan Adams and the ballad that ate the world

By Paul Elliott published 20 March 26

The Groover from Vancouver’s record-breaking hit

The contentious origin of the David Guetta monolith that brought Sia to mainstream attention

By Andy Price published 19 March 26

In 2011, Titanium was inescapable, but its many millions of listeners probably didn’t know that its powerhouse Sia vocal was only ever intended to be a guide

“Slacker my ass! I was working a $4-an-hour job trying to stay alive”: How the “worst rapper in the world” became an alt-rock icon

By Amit Sharma published 18 March 26

“I knew my folk music would take off if I put hip-hop beats behind it”