The Quietus

Reissue of the Week: Precreation Percolation by Super Furry Animals

Super Furry Animals are Wales' best band says Simon Price, and they're back with a compilation of very early material.
Parade on MSN

'90s country music icon Billy Ray Cyrus released first No. 1 hit song 27 years after beginning career

Billy Ray Cyrus turned a TikTok sensation into a record-breaking comeback.

Lost Copy of the Oldest-Known English Poem Discovered in a Rome Library

The poet who composed the oldest surviving English poem was apparently illiterate, unmusical, and a common cowherd from ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Researchers Discovered a Lost Copy of the Oldest English Poem, Composed by an Illiterate Cowherd More Than 1,300 Years Ago

This version of "Caedmon’s Hymn" shows how Old English evolved. It also features early use of a punctuation mark that readers ...
The Independent on MSN

Sabrina Carpenter and Madonna release surprise new song

Sabrina Carpenter and Madonna urge fans to put phones away for surprise collaboration - ‘I hope you all enjoy it and take a break from phone, and go out and dance’ says Carpenter of the new song ‘Brin ...

We found a lost copy of the earliest surviving English poem in a medieval manuscript in Rome

The manuscript had long been presumed lost and, as a result, had never previously been examined in detail by Bede scholars.
Ancient Origins

Oldest Poem in English Discovered in Manuscript in Rome

A remarkable manuscript discovered in Rome has brought to light a rare early copy of Cædmon's Hymn, widely considered the oldest known poem in the English language. Dating to the early ninth century, ...