The test to find the best cover songs is often boiled down to a simple question: does the cover end up being better than the original? Now, this question isn’t quite as simple as it sounds – the best ...
The “tortured artist” is a pervasive trope in music discourse, from Beethoven and Robert Schumann to Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse. It is perpetuated in popular culture in films like Whiplash (2014) ...