Mavis Staples ' latest album hums with hope that could only be delivered by the 86-year-old American treasure’s raspy ...

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When you have to live in solitary for a year, with next to no contact with the outside world, how do you pass the time? Well, music is probably going to play a big part. And indeed it does in Apple ...

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The Cure frontman Robert Smith guests on a new song from the Scottish band The Twilight Sad.The "Friday I'm in Love" rocker ...

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