Bruce Springsteen's fifth album, The River (1980), sounds like a release from the hard times. Coming off the Darkness Tour, Springsteen wanted to showcase the power of his live band. He used the ...

Perhaps inevitably, it was drugs that nearly ruined everything for Matt Pike. Born in Denver, Colorado, in 1972, he was smoking weed by the time he was 11, dropping acid by the time he was 12 and ...

Fans were upset some songs were not included. Among them: "Sherry Darling," "Moonlight Motel" and "Living on the Edge of the World." ...

It’s evident in the sax-flecked stadium songs capable of bringing crowds to their knees every night, but more deeply in his emotional stories about the reality of growing up in a Tyneside fishing town ...

Bed of Roses' is a masterclass in restraint & intention, with producer John Osborne ensuring that every note and lyric has space to breathe.

There’s enough variety among these and his other prominent roles—including the withdrawn surveillance expert in The Conversation, hepcat preacher in The Poseidon Adventure, and small-town ...

People Watching is the 30-year-old North Shields songsmith’s third album, and it picks up where the previous two left off: which is to say, approximately around 1978, roaring out of the darkness at ...

One of the more notable covers was the band's rendition of "Hunger Strike", originally recorded by Temple of the Dog for their sole self-titled album ... of "Darkness on the Edge of Town".

Heartworms are the hottest thing in London music right now, and their dark music does come from dark places ...

The sometimes-transgressive pop star has a new album, Mayhem, that seems poised to recapture the confrontational darkness of ...

From the sound of it — both musically and in the album’s title Super Pedestrian ... The hooks on early singles “Legs” and “Back in Town” are undeniable. “Good Ass Movie ...

When you first get noticed for performing deeply personal songs on your guitar on TikTok during a pandemic, there isn’t a clear next step. This is what Annie DiRusso has been facing since she broke ...