Soft Machine's longest-serving member Mike Ratledge, who also worked with Syd Barrett and Kevin Ayers, has died after a short ...

Mike Ratledge, one of the founding members of the legendary British psych-rock band Soft Machine, has died. As Louder points out, Soft Machine guitarist John Etheridge shared the news in a Facebook ...

But rather than try to shoehorn music into a pre-existing narrative, “Mystic Pizza” uses music to embrace and celebrate the ...

Hejira will be touring extensively throughout the UK in 2024, performing a selection of what the band feels are Mitchell’s most major works. The selected songs – as per the album listing – are ...

The Kansas City Chiefs have some incredibly famous fans in addition to Taylor Swift, as Paul Rudd, Jason Sudeikis and Henry Cavill count themselves among the faithful.

In John Irving’s next book, the author is returning to St. Cloud’s, Maine, and to the orphanage made famous in his acclaimed ...

The novelist John Irving is famous for telling stories set in his native New England and in Austria, the site of a pivotal ...

Last week, the "Bejeweled" singer made a "red-hot" appearance at the Grammys, where she was nominated for six awards. She ...

The Invisible Parade' is "the Wizard of Oz set in a graveyard" and depicts a beautiful path through grief for families ...

What are three popular tropes that romance novels use? Jennifer Harlan, a New York Times books editor, recommends three romance novels that show off those tropes at their best. An author of books ...

This sweeping novel about the life, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor is the topic of our January book club discussion. “Something Rotten,” Andrew Lipstein’s ...

John Travolta, just like Olivia Newton-John, skyrocketed to fame following the release of the film musical Grease in 1978, the year after he danced his way across the big screen in Saturday Night ...