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Blog jam: The Von Pip Musical Express

4336 days ago
Guardian Music — Twice a week we invite independent music writers and bloggers to tell us about what they do. Today: a site 'bringing you music from the past, present and quite possibly the future'Who are you and what's your blog called?I'm Andy von Pip and I run the... more info
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Eric B and Rakim – Paid in Full (Seven Minutes of Madness remix)

4411 days ago
Guardian Music — Coldcut's remix of this rap classic delivered exactly what its intro promised – a journey into soundThe late John Peel is rightly hailed for his services to pallid young men clutching guitars: truly, he was the patent saint of indie. What sometimes... more info
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Old music: Serious Drinking – Love on the Terraces

4448 days ago
Guardian Music — The 80s wasn't all backcombed hair and shoulder pads. One strain of indie was devoted solely to silliness Indie seems a grimly serious business these days. Join an indie band now and you can choose your role: artist, expounding on the mysteries of th... more info
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Sleeve notes: Remembering Whitney Houston

4458 days ago
Guardian Music — Music news, reviews and discussion from the last seven daysRemembering Whitney HoustonWhitney Houston expected to storm charts after death Whitney Houston – a life in pictures"Squandered talent of a record-breaking singer who had it all" – Alexis... more info
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Old music: Half Man Half Biscuit: National Shite Day

4459 days ago
Guardian Music — Modern life is rubbish, say the Birkenhead band, in this thoroughly British moan about broken-down buses and running out of loo rollWhen people talk about having a terrible day it's rarely because anything truly terrible has happened to them. It usua... more info
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Notes and queries

4545 days ago
Guardian Music — The many translations of Joyce's Ulysses, bad pop rhymes; St Patrick and the snakesHas James Joyce's Ulysses been translated? If so, how?Yes, into all the major world languages, starting with French, by August Morel (1929), with the assistance of Joy... more info
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Song to the Siren's irresistible tang

4550 days ago
Guardian Music — Its writer refused to record it. Pat Boone almost killed it. Then it was resurrected as a B-side to an indie prestige project. Martin Aston on how Tim Buckley's Song to the Siren became a modern classicIt's a Jim'll Fix It fantasy for any musical o... more info
Tim Buckley Bauhaus Cocteau Twins Robert Plant George Michael Bryan Ferry David Gray John Grant Half Man Half Biscuit Brendan Perry

Slick Jagger? Joy Orbison? Why silly names hide credible music

4676 days ago
Guardian Music — What was once a gimmick can now be just good marketing. And don't forget the Beatles was a naff pun onceMeet From Jethro Tull through the Beau Brummels to Franz Ferdinand, bands have long appropriated real names from history. In recent years, though,... more info
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Gig review: Half Man Half Biscuit

4689 days ago
Scotsman.com — Half Man Half Biscuit Liquid Room, Edinburgh **** more info
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TALK ABOUT POP MUZAK....

4831 days ago
The Vinyl Villain — Long before the sad and sobering adverts for car insurance, James Osterberg Jr made some very important and very influential records. Particularly two LPs that were released in 1977 - The Idiot and Lust for Life - both written, produced and very heav... more info
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