Under the Radar’s Faye Stacey recently had a chat with Liam Deakin, guitarist for Birmingham four-piece The Clause recently and we chatted about their debut album ...

Starting a song on the relative minor (vi) before resolving to the major I chord is a powerful compositional move. This video explores how that simple shift can create an emotional journey that hooks ...

Contracts cannot last forever. To ensure that the rights and obligations created by contracts are drawn to a proper conclusion, parties often give contracts a definite expiration date or make them ...

YouTube’s ‘The Duck Song’ has told a sweet, funny story over 15 years; now, the final video has been posted, and the duck’s story is officially over. In January 2009, singer/songwriter Bryant Oden ...

When I joined Pitchfork a couple months ago as its new editor, we got to work on what you’re reading now, the Best Songs of the 2020s So Far, our first big list of the year. On the surface, there’s ...

The thing about soft rock is that it was never an exclusive genre. Cross-pollinating among pop, rock, country rock and, especially, adult contemporary music of the day, the best soft rock records ...

Release clauses — they’re worth explaining. This is because, while they’re not totally new in the world of football transfers, they are much more common in La Liga than in the Premier League — and the ...

First they came for Pluto. Then math. Now it’s the alphabet! You might not know your ABCs — or be able to sing along anymore. The alphabet song of our youth has been updated, and confused parents are ...

Have your kids come home singing their ABCs to a familiar tune - but one that somehow sounds just a bit off? You're not imagining it: the alphabet song is changing. The original song most of us grew ...

Ever had a song get stuck in your head for a long period of time? An ‘earworm’ wiggles its way into your consciousness as a song—or more likely, a verse or two of one—with no plan of exit, leaving you ...

Shaboozey was largely introduced to the world as a featured artist alongside Linda Martell on “SPAGHETTII” from Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, a country-centric magnum opus that promptly became Beyoncé’s ...