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EPIGENE release their rock opera - A Wall Street Odyssey – 27th August on Amammi Musi

4981 days ago
AltsoundsUpstate NY band Epigene has announced the release of their 3rd album, a brilliant new rock opera called “A Wall Street Odyssey; The City, The Country And Back Again.” Inspired by such landmark albums as The Who's Quadrophenia, The K... more info

Alice Cooper – review

4989 days ago
Guardian Music100 Club, LondonNo one illustrates the way social threats transmute into beloved treasures better than Alice Cooper. Forty years ago, when he began singing of death and obsession, and recreating executions on stage, he was the embodiment of post-hipp... more info

Glastonbury: Musicians' memories of 'the big daddy of all festivals' - video

4995 days ago
Guardian MusicThe Kinks' Ray Davies, New York indie singer Darwin Deez, Metronomy's Joseph Mount and About Group/This Heat drummer Charles Hayward reflect on Glastonbury. And Donovan performs The Music Maker, a song he wrote about the festivalAndy GallagherBen Kap... more info

Portrait of the artist: Alice Cooper, musician

4997 days ago
Guardian Music'I worked with Salvador Dalí for four days. He did a sculpture of my brain with a chocolate eclair running down the back'What got you started?I was at that perfect age: I was 15 when the Beatles came out in the US; then the Rolling Stones, the Kinks... more info

Ray Davies/LPO/Crouch End Festival Chorus - review

4997 days ago
Guardian MusicMeltdown festival, LondonA man blessed in many ways, but never with a sunny disposition, it sometimes seems as if Ray Davies spent the entire 60s complaining. The most recurring of his grumbles involved the Kinks's record company. Not only did Pye Re... more info

Meltdown round-up

4999 days ago
Guardian MusicSouthbank Centre, London"I was on acid when I saw the Kinks for the first time," Ron Sexsmith mutters. Ray Davies – former Kink and current Meltdown curator – slings on a guitar, preparing to accompany the Canadian troubadour on a version of the ... more info

Gem Archer & Liam Gallagher Talk Beady Eye, Oasis And Noel Gallagher

5001 days ago
Stopcryingyourheartout.comWhen you’ve shot your mouth off and claimed that your band is the best in the world, what do you say when that band dissolves and you form a new one?“We’re the second-best band in the world.”So says Liam Gallagher, singer from ’90s Britpop ... more info

Stream Unknown Mortal Orchestra

5002 days ago
StereogumWhen first writing about BTW Unknown Mortal Orchestra, the glammed-up, psychedelic, punked-out project of Oregon (via New Zealand) resident Ruban Nielson, I mentioned the Kinks, Sly Stone, and Syd Barrett, noting the self-titled debut sounds like “... more info

Yo La Tengo at Meltdown

5003 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Festival Hall, LondonAn indie institution 27 years in the making, Yo La Tengo are gloriously unpredictable. It's often said that no two shows by the New Jersey trio are alike. This is nowhere more apparent than at Sunday's Meltdown show, titled... more info

Meltdown Mixtape Monday: The Sonics' favourite Kinks tracks

5004 days ago
DrownedInSoundThe Sonics were basically the germ that spawned punk rock. 40 years after they split up, they've reformed to play Ray Davies' Meltdown festival. As a thank you to Ray for picking them at his curated event, Rob Lind and Jerry Roslie from The Sonics ha... more info

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