“The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band”: The story of a cult classic

Released on this day (12 March) in 1967, The Velvet Underground & Nico has been described by Rolling Stone magazine as “the ...

Miles Caton’s No-Brainer Playlist

When I call up Miles Caton, it’s less than two weeks before the Oscars. Sinners, Ryan Coogler’s Southern gothic-horror epic the 21-year-old stars in, has been nominated for a record-shattering 16 ...

RECORDINGS | OPINION: Bill Callahan’s ‘My Days of 58’ review — a late-career masterpiece of reflection and restraint

Bill Callahan never needed to shout to be heard. From the tape-hiss and four-track fog of the early Smog cassettes to the ...

Lord Sear, DJ and hip-hop radio host, dies at 52

Lord Sear, longtime DJ and hip-hop radio personality who worked closely with Eminem on his Shade 45 channel, has died. He was ...

Eminem DJ and radio personality Lord Sear dies at 53

Lord Sear, born Paul Watson in New York City, traveled with Eminem on the 2000 “Anger Management Tour” before joining the Slim Shady rapper’s Shade 45 satellite radio station in 2004. Shade 45 ...

Eminem’s longtime DJ, Lord Sear, dead at 52

"Sear was one of the greatest people to be around, I will never forget how he made me laugh on our tour together," Eminem wrote in a touching tribute.