They are songs of longing and loss, heartbreak, murder and tragedy rooted in days gone by and lovingly kept alive for generations.

Unlike The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes ... novel that culminates in these inevitable deaths. Some examples: Collins employs a Latin poetry trope, locus amoenus, where a pleasant place has ...

Japanese Breakfast’s fourth album, “For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)“ was true to its title with a dreamy, atmospheric ...

TO Alison Krauss, her latest project is “like stepping into an old pair of shoes”. The singer blessed with a sweet soprano ...

FOLLOWING UP ON one’s breakout moment is always an intimidating endeavour — but on For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), the newly-released fourth album from Japanese Breakfast, frontwoman Michelle ...

Boy, howdy, do we have a quiet New Music Friday on our hands this week, folks. Not to pull the curtain too far here, but here ...

Butler’s mellifluous voice caressing a love ballad which had begun life as a poem when he was 16. The song, which went gold, was credited to Jerry Butler and the Impressions – which led to ...

There was backlash to 'Chhaava' was from a section of Bengali academics, who took to social media alleging the film was ...

It was World Poetry Day on 21 March. To mark the event I read some poetic bangers to the dog (he enjoyed Eleanor Farjeon, ...

She points to the Gesaffelstein-produced “Killah,” a down-and-dirty funk explosion and the record’s standout, as an example of how ... s classically-sounding ballad, turned out the way ...

Criterion (iv): This complex and diachronic cultural property is an outstanding and unique example of a military architectural ... being found in works like the "Soldier's Ballad" of Tch'en Lin (c.