Marc Bolan

New York Times — Forty years after his death, it’s time to give the rocker Marc Bolan his due. more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — StureFrom: UkraineWith the mainstream US and UK music scene pumping out increasingly generic focus group pap it's time to widen the net and explore previously ignored scenes to satisfy our hunger for the intoxicating thrill of alternative music. ... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — Apache SunFrom: Glasgow, ScotlandAnother day another track from my Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition list. The Rain Never Came from Scottish duo Apache Sun sounds like a groovy T-Rex if Marc Bolan had ingested industrial quantities of ecstasy. ... more info

Stereogum — When Marc Bolan appeared on the BBC show Top Of The Pops in March 1971 to perform his smash hit "Hot Love," he launched a pop revolution not only with his music, but with his look. He appeared in bright yellow satin pants and a shiny black shirt with... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — NibbinzFrom: Dublin, IrelandRegular readers with good memories may remember Dublin band Readers Wives who I featured back in 2009 (Let's Get Dirty With...). Readers Wives front man Niall James Holohan has branched out on his own performing under ... more info

Obscure Sound — Jackie Zealous are a trio from Santa Cruz, CA producing a likable vein of indie-rock with warm, hook-y choruses and a dose of darkly entrancing soundscapes, inspired by the songwriting of Marc Bolan. “Olympia” is the opening track off their newly... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — Gringo StarFrom: Atlanta, Georgia, United StatesA lot of the emails promoting bands that cross my eyeballs are of the standard band x sounds like a cross between band y and band z with the odd genre description thrown in just in case I hadn't got... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Streaming in full, and narrated by Suzi Quatro, the BBC ‘s 2007 documentary chronicling Marc Bolan. Born Marc Feld in 1947, the film documents the artist’s life beginning in post-War East London, before diving into nascent T. Rex and the beyond. ... more info

Stereogum — Get familiar with Invisible Familiars. “Clever Devil,” the A-side from the New York trio’s new 7-inch on Other Music, is like T. Rex in a funhouse of horrors. It’s got that breathy, whispery Marc Bolan glam-rock thing going on, but also skitt... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — Charlie Boyer & The VoyeursFrom: London, United KingdomCharlie Boyer & The Voyeurs have been around for a while attracting the attention of a multitude of bloggers and the NME. I've studiously avoided jumping on the bandwagon but I can resist no long... more info