For decades, the music industry has been defined by high barriers to entry. To release a professional record, you generally ...

If you’ve ever written a set of lyrics or a poem, you’ve probably imagined how it might sound as a song. But turning words ...

Name Rome Ramirez Best known for Writing and performing songs that make people want to be outside in the water. Current city Nashville. Really want to be in I really want to go to Italy. I just want ...

From folk roots to viral fame, Kalakala singer Arzeen Kamal reflects on music, mysticism and making songs that breathe ...

Soji Ozallo is a Nigerian artist with his music career depicting versatility and purpose. He was born and brought up in Lagos ...

This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...

I’d love to counter all that by saying 2025 was an unambiguously great year for music—but that wouldn’t be entirely true ...

This December marks Daphne Oram’s centenary. She was a visionary and a key influence in the history of electronic music.

You’d be forgiven if you can’t hum the 18th-century Cumbrian folk song “Do Ye Ken John Peel.” But in 1942, a version of that ...

We hear them from one Yuletide after another, the sounds of the season we’ve known and loved for decades. Just how much do ...

For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

The Bee Gees' 1977 hit, "How Deep Is Your Love" topped the U.S. charts on Christmas Day of that year, where it stayed for four months.