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My favourite album: LCD Soundsystem by LCD Soundsystem

5400 days ago
Guardian MusicContinuing our new series in which Guardian and Observer writers pick their favourite albums ever – with a view that you might do the same – Paul MacInnes explains why James Murphy's masterpiece makes him go 'absolutely bananas'LCD Soundsystem's ... more info

Snoop Dogg - Snoop Dogg To Be Honoured At Bmi Urban Awards

5401 days ago
ContactMusicRapper Snoop Dogg will be honoured at the Bmi Urban Awards later this month (Aug11). The Gin and Juice hitmaker will be bestowed with the Bmi Icon title, previously awarded to James Brown, George Clinton, Willie Nelson and Al Green. The event honours... more info

Noel Gallagher Guest Edits Mojo Magazine

5412 days ago
Stopcryingyourheartout.comNoel has guest edited this month's Mojo Magazine, which is on the shelves now. The magazine also comes with a personally compiled covermount CD titled 'Well... All Right!' which features artists as diverse as Nina Simone, Black Mountain, Yage and Buf... more info

Vintage Trouble: The Bomb Shelter Session – review

5413 days ago
Guardian Music(Vintage Trouble)LA four-piece Vintage Trouble briefly featured in the top 10 worldwide trending topics on Twitter in April after an incendiary appearance on Later ... With Jools Holland. Singer Ty Taylor gyrated and whooped like a young James Brown,... more info

Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll

5413 days ago
Guardian MusicIn Otis Redding's hands, Try a Little Tenderness fires a secular devotion that is every bit as intense as its spiritual cousinOf all the great soul singers, perhaps Solomon Burke is most famed for bringing the fervour of the church to his recordings... more info

Soul Ii Soul - James Brown Like A Brother To Jazzie B

5434 days ago
ContactMusicSoul II Soul star Jazzie B says James Brown treated him like a "little brother". The DJ, producer and singer worked with James - known as the 'Godfather of Soul' - on one of his albums as well as touring with him, and reveals the star really took him... more info

Here’s Something Else!: Kicking It Old School, JB Horns Edition

5437 days ago
PopdoseJames Brown got all of the headlines, be they for his fancy moves, his fancier suits or his brushes with the law. But the JB Horns, those great groovers who provided the punctuation to every grunt, gasp and squeal, remain an underrated element to the... more info

Stevie Wonder inducted into Apollo Theatre Hall Of Fame

5450 days ago
NMEWonder joins Aretha Franklin and James Brown more info

Michel Polnareff :: Polnareff’s (1971)

5451 days ago
Aquarium DrunkardSeveral months back my pal Duke had a group over to his house to check out a James Brown concert DVD he’d just picked up. Afterwards the discussion turned to recent vinyl finds at the Rose Bowl Flea Market; during which Duke broke out an LP that di... more info

DJ Kool Herc DJs his first block party (his sister's birthday) at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, Bronx, New York

5452 days ago
Guardian Music13 August 1973: Number 1 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of R&B and hip-hop musicConsidering the event is thought to be the birth of a globe-spanning, music-based culture almost half a century old, the ambitions that lay behind it w... more info

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