Most music fans are familiar with the feeling of wishing a song could last forever, extend whatever feeling the song inspires into infinity and never leave the soundscape it creates. This, of course, ...

Both a riveting look at the end of slavery in Jamaica, and a searing examination of issues relevant to today, THE LONG SONG, adapted from Andrea Levy’s bestselling novel, is a fictional tale of ...

“The Long Song” knows what an audience might expect from a period drama airing on the BBC, as it did in the UK in 2018, or under the PBS Masterpiece banner, as it will in the US starting on January 31 ...

Good things come to those who wait, or so the proverb says. And this maxim also applies to long songs. There are times, of course, when a terse pop song fits the moment—a quick sugar high when you ...

No matter how numb my fingers are from the below-freezing windchills, I always spare 20 frosty seconds to fish through my pockets for my headphones to cue the soundtrack of my walk across campus.

Editor’s Note: this article covers the entire plot of The Long Song. Don’t read it unless you’ve finished the show. The Long Song condenses approximately 75 years into three short hours. Although the ...

You can define the 1980s by many things, but restraint isn’t one of them. And in 1984, there were plenty of long songs to match culture’s commercial appetite. Pop music then felt more earnest, as ...