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Meltdown 2012: What are you looking forward to?

4567 days ago
Guardian Music — The Antony Hegarty-curated Meltdown festival begins this week. Here's a look ahead to some of the programme highlightsThis year's Meltdown festival at the Southbank Centre in London is curated by the musician and visual artist Antony Hegarty. He firs... more info
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Meltdown 2012 – Joan as Police Woman: 'I've watched Antony Hegarty grow into a political force'

4569 days ago
Guardian Music — Joan Wasser on playing violin with Antony and the Johnsons, and the new songs she's writing for Meltdown What does Antony mean to you? I walked into an Antony and the Johnsons rehearsal in 1999 to cover for a violinist and I felt instantly at home. A... more info
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Meltdown 2012 – Lou Reed: 'I respect so many of the other Meltdown acts'

4569 days ago
Guardian Music — Lou Reed previews his Meltdown set and looks forward to seeing other stars on the billWhat do you have planned?I'll be performing From VU to Lulu, a two-hour concert I originally toured throughout Europe this past June. We'll perform songs that span ... more info
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Meltdown 2012 – Kim Cattrall: 'I'll be talking about the most powerful woman who ever lived'

4569 days ago
Guardian Music — Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall on bringing Cleopatra to Meltdown audiences What does Antony mean to you? How do you feel about playing Meltdown?I'd heard him on record but, live, I was blown away. It felt so familiar, so much a part of the collectiv... more info
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Meltdown 2012 – Marina Abramovic: 'Artists can do whatever they want'

4569 days ago
Guardian Music — Why men will be banned from Marina Abramovic's Meltdown showPerformance artist best known for her 2010 work, The Artist is Present, in which for three months she invited visitors to take turns sitting opposite her at New York's MoMA galleryWhat does ... more info
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This week's new live music

4571 days ago
Guardian Music — Ty Segall, On tourAccording to one of his T-shirts, "You can't spell party without Ty", and that's certainly true. This San Francisco native specialises in an upbeat, melodic garage rock somewhere between the Beatles and Nirvana, but without the pres... more info
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Lou Reed, John Zorn, MGMT and more collaborating with Joshua Light Show for NYC performances in September

4579 days ago
Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Frisicano Joshua Light Show in action The Joshua Light Show, founded by multimedia artist Joshua White, is perhaps the most legendary group of live music visualists. As resident artists at Bill Graham's Fillmore East during the late 1960's,... more info
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Now listening: reader playlist

4580 days ago
Guardian Music — Each week we invite someone to share with us some of the songs they've been listening to recently. Today's selection features Stornoway, Radiohead, Laura Marling and the xxThis week's playlist is from Ava Lockyear, who spent two weeks at the Guardian... more info
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Which Meltdown moments have been the best?

4588 days ago
Guardian Music — This 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
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Lou Reed - Lou Reed Pays Poem Tribute To Mentor Schwartz

4603 days ago
ContactMusic — Rocker Lou Reed has paid tribute to his former Syracuse University professor in a new published poem The former Velvet Underground frontman studied under literary great Delmore Schwartz in the early 1960s and still clearly has a lot of affection for ... more info
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