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The Hitman and Her

4958 days ago
Guardian Music — 1988 - 1992: Number 19 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicIn 1988, there were two versions of a social revolution. The first, fuelled by ecstasy, involved climbing over fences chased by the police. You knew rave had made ... more info
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Pulp matter more than ever in today's cowed popcultural landscape | Owen Hatherley

4959 days ago
Guardian Music — The band have returned to a moribund music scene crying out for Jarvis Cocker's acute class-consciousnessPulp, who played their first concert in the UK for nearly a decade at the Isle of Wight last Saturday, were the last art school band. That doesn'... more info
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A history of modern music: Indie - download the playlist

4959 days ago
Guardian Music — As part of the Guardian's summer of music, we are releasing a history of modern music. Download the indie playlist here• Get the data• Download the hip hop playlist• Download the rock playlist• Download the pop playlistAs part of the Guardian... more info
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The New York Dolls play 'mock rock' on British TV

4959 days ago
Guardian Music — November 1973: Number 6 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicThe Dolls' appearance on the Old Grey Whistle Test kickstarted the war between punks and hippies three years early. Before filming, Dolls frontman David Johansen ... more info
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The Sex Pistols play the Lesser Free Hall: all of indie Manchester sees the future of music

4959 days ago
Guardian Music — 4 June 1976: Number 8 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicGoogle the words "Sex Pistols Lesser Free Trade Hall 1976", or simply "4 June 1976", and you can use the resultant 22,600,000 pieces of information to piece togethe... more info
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The Smiths make their Top of the Pops debut

4959 days ago
Guardian Music — November 1983: Number 28 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicI wrote This Charming Man for a John Peel session. I just leapt out of bed and wrote it. It was the culmination of trying to find a way of playing that was non-r... more info
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Manic Street Preachers, Indie's autodidacts, provoke the masses

4959 days ago
Guardian Music — 21 January 1991: Number 36 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicWith lines like "I laughed when Lennon got shot", Manic Street Preachers' first single for Heavenly, Motown Junk, was a shot across the bows, a kamikaze manife... more info
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The Smiths' The Queen Is Dead turns 25 – in pictures

4960 days ago
Guardian Music — Stephen Wright took the famous Salford Lads Club photograph on the album's inside sleeve. Here is a selection of his finest Smiths shots ... more info
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Photographer Stephen Wright's best shot

4960 days ago
Guardian Music — 'At the time, I was using my bedroom as a darkroom – and storing all my chemicals in old lemonade bottles'This shoot really should have gone to a big-name photographer – an Anton Corbijn or a Pennie Smith – but it went to me, a fan using a chea... more info
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ONE SONG BY THE SMITHS....A SERIES FOR SATURDAYS (Part 41)

4962 days ago
The Vinyl Villain — I think the photo gives away the fact that today's song is one of the instrumentals:-mp3 : The Smiths - Money Changes EverythingThe b-side to Bigmouth Strikes Again, this was the second instrumental track the band released.  There's no mistaking tha... more info
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