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Those supermodels didn’t look like LA girls who could afford nose jobs – they looked like aliens. I was like, “Wow! That’s a person?”

‘It changed my life completely’: The iconic ’90s album that spawned St Vincent’s music career

The musician also shares which models from that era were her celebrity crushes.

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Taylor Swift surprised the world with the release of her evermore album, a project she has referenced as “folklore’s sister record”.

2020 produced memorable music moments to relive

As the Year We Hope To Forget ticks to a close, that desire to find something to treasure is still forceful.

  • Melissa Ruggieri
David Byrne, left, and Spike Lee

There is nothing ironic about David Byrne's American Utopia

David Byrne says in Spike Lee's film of his album-turned-concert-turned-Broadway show he is genuinely asking how can we make things better.

  • Karl Quinn
David Byrne, foreground, in a scene from American Utopia.

American Utopia is so good I wanted to turn around and watch it all over again

Could one-time Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and director Spike Lee produce anything as good as seminal music doco Stop Making Sense?

  • Paul Byrnes
Virtual pop starlet Hatsune Miku  was born as a piece of voice synthesis software and wound up opening arenas for Lady Gaga. 

AI music and virtual pop stars: Is David Byrne right to be worried?

The fragmented soundtrack to our times finds us all dancing to the algorithm.

  • Michael Dwyer

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