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Guardian Music — They began the year hyped to the rafters and hungry for fame, but are Spector already resigned to failure?You could, if you were so minded, infer a lot from the title of Spector's debut album. The east London quintet began the year on the BBC Sound... more info

Guardian Music — They became a byword for yuppie pop, music as luxury goods – but Roxy Music were always much odder than thatIn a world of lavish, expensive box sets, you might expect Roxy Music's 40th anniversary package to be the most lavish of the lot. But the... more info

Guardian Music — As the Rolling Stones prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their first ever gig, we visit Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism – for an interview with Mick Jagger in 1987 by the late Tom Hibbert for Q... more info

Guardian Music — Sounding like so much manna from blog-pop heaven, this Canadian trio suggest a chillwave SadeReading on a mobile? Click here to listenHometown: Toronto, Canada. The lineup: Carmen Elle, Kieran Adams, Joseph Shabason. The background: One of the member... more info

The Newsroom — Embodied by the '80s karaoke party of Rock Of Ages, then wrapped in a bedazzled anarchy-symbol T-shirt and $100 skull bandana, the last lingering shreds of rock 'n' roll "rebellion" have long since been sanitized and repackaged as a Halloween costume... more info

Guardian Music — How David Bowie's 1972 television performance of Starman altered pop for everNear the end of When Ziggy Played Guitar, GQ editor Dylan Jones casually lets slip that he and the subject of his book have met each other "dozens of times". If the revelati... more info

ContactMusic — Former Roxy Music star Brian Eno has scooped a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Bafta Craft Award for his soundtrack to a gritty gang drama The rocker took home the prize on Sunday 13May12 for composing the music to U K TV series Top Boy..... more info

Guardian Music — The veteran New Romantics would not have been the choice of all music-lovers to showcase English culture to the world. But they have a gift for empty spectacle that suits this gigAll through the 80s, I hated Duran Duran, when for some they were the k... more info

Guardian Music — A lot of thought and planning, that's what. Allan Glen explains the clout behind Sunderland's progress towards becoming music's new Liverpool or ManchesterWhat is it that transforms an area's local musical landscape into a national credible scene? We... more info