Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or fewer and are subject to editing for grammar and clarity. Publication is at ...

Google AI music generator Lyria 3 is now available on the Gemini app. It works—mostly—but the competition has a big head start.

This is one of the most replayed Apollo moments for a reason: it sounds wrong. The astronauts reach the far side, lose contact with Earth, and suddenly there’s “weird music” on the line. Some say it ...

Getting signed to a major label with two albums full of “dick and fart” jokes doesn’t seem like something achievable for most ...

People of Note is as wonderfully artistic as it is fun to play with its synergy of music-focused turn-based combat and an ...

Words for a better world Sun Ra has a way with words – a strange celestial way. Like the rest of us, he uses them to communicate. But what he communicates ...

Collider has listed 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' by David Bowie as the Greatest Classic Rock Album of all time.

Sparks flew at Exhibition White City as London show was cut short by technical failure and evacuation ending the Valentine’s ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or ...

The number of New Zealanders who speak te reo Māori grew 15% from 2018 to 2023 – and the nation’s artists are reflecting this ...

Delilah Bon has shared a new track she’s been sitting on for a year, waiting for the right moment to have her say. Titled ‘ILLEGAL ALIENS’, it’s a song bristling with anger, personified by the vicious ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...