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Blur – review

4320 days ago
Guardian MusicMaida Vale Studios, LondonAfter Blur's 6 Music gig – the first of two shows they're playing for BBC radio tonight, to begin what they have suggested may be their last fortnight as a band – their 1995 single, The Universal, plays on the air. This ... more info

Ceremony's throbbing soundtrack adds aural excitement to a visual spectacular

4328 days ago
Guardian MusicDanny Boyle's track selections for the Olympics opener ranged from the Sex Pistols to Elgar, and all points in betweenA wide variety of different British musical styles provided the soundtrack to the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics.Here ... more info

Music Review: The Kinks - Think Visual

4335 days ago
TopixThey had just signed with the MCA Label and so, for better or worse, had to produce an album. What emerged was an average release, saved somewhat by several good songs. more info

Jon Lord of Deep Purple - an obituary

4339 days ago
Guardian MusicOrganist who infused Deep Purple with classical influences, helping to make them one of the world's biggest rock bands'We're as valid as anything by Beethoven," declared Jon Lord of his band, Deep Purple, in an interview with the New Musical Express... more info

How we made: Graham Coxon and Stephen Street on Parklife by Blur

4339 days ago
Guardian Music'Damon wasn't comfortable doing the verses – he just couldn't get into character'Graham Coxon, guitaristModern Life Is Rubbish [Blur's second album] was overlooked because of the rise of grunge, but we were halfway to somewhere, and with Parklife w... more info

Ray Davies returns to Bay Area

4339 days ago
Mercury News, CaliforniaLegendary Kinks leader to play Mountain Winery, Fillmore more info

Readers recommend: songs about beer - results

4343 days ago
Guardian MusicThis week's playlist slaked a major thirst for beer in song, be it sad, profound, lost or bellowingRR commenter Pairubu, who suggested this topic, sings the praises of beer, "the most convivial of drinks". Yet our request last week for your favourite... more info

Start it up: the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones' first gig

4346 days ago
Guardian MusicFifty years ago this week, a nervous band called the Rollin' Stones played their first gig – to a bemused crowd of jazz fans. Christopher Sandford, the band's biographer, charts a revolutionIn the summer of 1962, the management of the Academy cinem... more info

A visit to the intersection of art and artifice, Sunset Strip

4353 days ago
The NewsroomEmbodied 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

The Kinks: The Kinks Announce New Box Set, 'The Kinks At The BBC'

4357 days ago
Prefix  Nearly 50 years on from their beginning, the Kinks are preparing to release a compilation of sessions, live recordings ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/the-kinks-announce-new-box-set-the-kinks-at-the-bb/66756/ more info

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