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Farewell then EMI, your tunes were the background to our lives | Simon Napier-Bell

4893 days ago
Guardian MusicThe company that brought us Cliff and the Beatles, the Sex Pistols and Susan Boyle is disappearing. We should salute its contribution to our cultureIn the 1930s, after a merger with Columbia UK, EMI became the biggest record company in the world. By ... more info

Elvis Costello Finally Visits Sesame Street

4910 days ago
StereogumElvis Costello’s first major U.S. TV appearance was on a December 1977 episode of Saturday Night Live — a gig he got because the Sex Pistols, originally booked for the show, didn’t want anything to do with New York. Costello’s single at the t... more info

Madonna's W.E. and my 'Inconvenient Nazi' theory | Hadley Freeman

4911 days ago
Guardian MusicThe new film about Wallis Simpson assembles all the bad movie cliches – and tries to downplay those Nazi skeletonsHere's a quote that Madonna is welcome , nay, advised, to put on the posters of her upcoming film W.E., a hagiography of the deeply un... more info

John Peel Day: Share with us your memories

4911 days ago
Guardian MusicIt's seven years since the DJ's death. What are your Peel memories?Seven years ago today the legendary DJ John Peel died aged 65. The blog Keeping It Peel is recording various tribute events taking place this month, and they've declared today to be J... more info

Seven Ages Of Rock: Blank Generation - Punk Rock 1973-1980 (BBC Rockumentary)

4918 days ago
Totally Fuzzy A tale of two cities, London and New York and the birth of punk. Each city created a bastard child that marked the biggest and fundamental shift in popular music since Elvis walked into Sun Studios. Blank Generation unpicks the relationship between ... more info

Music art exhibition ft. Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, The Stone Roses

4920 days ago
AltsoundsThe *Movie Poster Art Gallery* is pleased to announce a fascinating exhibition of original and rare music posters entitled “*The Manchester Connection*”, a celebration of Manchester's legendary renaissance in musical and design crea... more info

History of the Sex Pistols (Rockumentary)

4923 days ago
Totally Fuzzy BBC Arena Rockumentary on the history of the Sex Pistols Read more » more info

Old music: Alternative TV – Life

4923 days ago
Guardian MusicBeneath the cliched references to the dole queue lurks a sad and funny single from the punk pioneersAlternative TV were one of the groups that sprang up like mushrooms in the wake of Sex Pistols. But unlike so many of the bands inspired by 1976, they... more info

THE THURSDAY CORRESPONDENT

4923 days ago
The Vinyl VillainSome Fantastic PlaceOn Friday 6th August 2010 JC wrote a piece on the Dundee band The View’s single Superstar Tradesman and included in the article was a track which was in my opinion the worst ever cover version I’ve ever heard….Up the Junctio... more info

Sorry, Adele, but Someone Like You has ushered in The New Boring

4929 days ago
Guardian MusicThe absence of Lady Gaga at this year's Brits accidentally opened the door to Mumford & Sons and an Ed Sheeran-fronted new wave of beige popAll pop scenes have their defining moments. Britpop's was the Blur v Oasis chart battle; with punk it was the ... more info

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