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Songs about gold – the results

4263 days ago
Guardian MusicThe Midas touch was on display with this week's topicLast week, with a nod to the London 2012 Olympics, we asked you to nominate your favourite songs about gold, with the glittering prize of inclusion in this playlist enough to get the RR faithful su... more info

From the archive, 16 July 1977: This is Punk Rock in the making

4274 days ago
Guardian MusicIf you're a punk rock performer, star even, you can piss next to the fans in the loo and not get mobbed. Elvis couldn't have done thatBilly Idol cups his hands over his headphones as though he can't hear the sound he is making. Face death pale, his c... more info

Lol Coxhill: an obituary

4278 days ago
Guardian MusicVersatile saxophonist popular on the jazz and avant-garde music scenesThe saxophonist Lol Coxhill, who has died aged 79, was one of the great characters of British music – generous, gifted and amiably eccentric. He had long been a stalwart of... more info

Which Meltdown moments have been the best?

4279 days ago
Guardian MusicThis year's Antony Hegarty-curated festival begins on 1 August. Before then, tell us about your favourite Meltdown momentsAs anyone who caught our Antony and the Johnsons music site takeover will know, Antony Hegarty knows a thing or two about artful... more info

Once musicians were too cool for the terraces – not now

4292 days ago
Guardian MusicThere was a time when music shunned sport – then something changed: sport started generating more money than musicIn the mid-80s, when John Peel was the compere at Reading festival, the Liverpool-supporting DJ was fond of reading out the results of... more info

Elizabeth Fraser talks Meltdown

4296 days ago
Guardian MusicSince the Cocteau Twins split 15 years ago, their otherworldly singer has lived a quiet life in Bristol. But in August, as part of Antony Hegarty's Meltdown festival, the one-time darling of the music press will sing her own songs for the first time... more info

My Tiger My Timing

4296 days ago
Guardian MusicThe London alt-pop five-piece on setting up their own label and keeping the rock-star cliches in checkBasking in the midday sunshine, admiring the riverside flats that overlook the Regent's canal, the members of "weird pop" band My Tiger My Timing ca... more info

Old music: Rudi – Big Time

4299 days ago
Guardian MusicNorthern Irish punk didn't fixate on the Troubles – Rudi turned their ire against proto-reality TVOn Sunday 25 May, I was counted as one of the privileged few. I was chosen along with a selection of film-makers, writers, old punks and even older 68... more info

Blog jam: The Von Pip Musical Express

4302 days ago
Guardian MusicTwice 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

A week in radio: The Shed; Cerys Matthews' Blue Horizon; Midweek

4305 days ago
Guardian MusicThis global and eclectic musical selection emanating from Mark Coles's garden shed is a real treatThe rain, Mark Coles explained at the beginning of his excellent music show, The Shed, has been causing havoc. "It's creating big, boggy puddles in the ... more info

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