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Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds – review

5648 days ago
Guardian Music — Does it matter that pop music is stuck in the same old groove?Like many people of a certain age, the first thing I did upon going to university was to blow my entire student grant on records. Sixties French chansonnières, 30s Greek rembetika, seven-... more info

Rock Family Trees - The British R&B Boom (BBC Rockumentary)

5648 days ago
Totally Fuzzy — BBC Series exploring the dramas that lie behind some of the best-known bands. In the 60s young people in the UK were tired of pop and started listening to American blues. The British blues boom threw up two of the biggest bands of the late 60s an... more info

Zane Lowe and Clare Chadburn | The Music Power 100 | No 29

5650 days ago
Guardian Music — Producer Chadburn works closely with Lowe to produce a lively Radio 1 show respected by listeners and artists alikeBroadcasters: Radio 1 DJ and producerOn air he sounds like the antithesis of his hero, the late John Peel, but Zane Lowe has inherited ... more info

Rock Family Trees: The Fleetwood Mac Story (BBC Rockumentary)

5651 days ago
Totally Fuzzy — A series that takes a fresh look at the last 30 years of pop history, using family trees compiled by music journalist Pete Frame to explore the dramas that lie behind some of the best-known bands. Fleetwood Mac, formed in 1967, have survived many d... more info

The Artist formerly known as Captain Beefheart (BBC Rockumentary)

5653 days ago
Totally Fuzzy — Superb BBC documentary from 1997, narrated by none less than John Peel, featuring Beefheart himself, Frank Zappa, Ry Cooder and many more! Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American musician, singer-... more info

Q&A: Mark E Smith

5656 days ago
Guardian Music — My super power? No food necessaryMark E Smith was born in 1957 and grew up in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. He left school at 16, and worked in a meat factory and then for an import-export company in Manchester docks. In 1976, he formed the post... more info

Dylan at 70: In Bob we trust

5657 days ago
Guardian Music — The general consensus is that Bob Dylan reached his peak in 1975, and it's been a slow, frustrating decline ever since. But there are gems to be found even in his most-maligned releasesBob Dylan is 70 on Tuesday. If like me you are a Dylan fan, you w... more info

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (album stream)

5681 days ago
Totally Fuzzy — All available for streaming in our SoundStream Player New in our 3VOOR12 LUISTERPAAL widget: Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues The area in which rock music meets poetry is seldom a happy place, so it's with a mild sense of panic, five minutes into H... more info

Laura Cantrell: Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs of the Queen of Country Music – review

5685 days ago
Guardian Music — (Spit and Polish) A charmingly cool, respectful tribute to the country superstar of the 1950s and 60s from the singer who became a heroine of the alt.country scene 40 years later. Now 91, Kitty Wells is the oldest living member of the Country Music H... more info

Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues

5685 days ago
Guardian Music — Despite a few silly affectations, Fleet Foxes' second album is disarmingly beautiful, says Alexis PetridisThe area in which rock music meets poetry is seldom a happy place, so it's with a mild sense of panic, five minutes into Helplessness Blues, tha... more info

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