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Record Store Day: Black Friday 2012 (11/23) releases

4421 days ago
Here Comes The Flood Record Store Day comes twice a year. On Black Friday (11/23), hit your favorite indie store and get your hands on exclusive vinyl and what-not. Goodies include: Mothers of Invention - Why Don'cha Do Me Right, Big Leg Emma (7"); Velvet Underground &... more info

Music Alliance Pact #10/2012: 78s macht die Monotales weltberühmt

4423 days ago
78s39 Musik-Blogs aus der ganzen Welt stellen die aktuellen Favoriten aus ihrem Land vor – in einem Mixtape zusammengestellt und zum kostenlos Herunterladen. 78s macht diesen Monat die Monotales aus Zürich weltberühmt. SWITZERLAND: 78s Monotales –... more info

Mama Rosin: Bye Bye Bayou – review

4427 days ago
Guardian Music(Moi J'Connais Records/Proper)Here's a real curiosity: a trio from Switzerland who are celebrated for treating Louisiana cajun and zydeco styles with punk ferocity, but have now moved to New York to work with blues-rock guitarist and producer Jon Spe... more info

What's your least favourite album cover?

4433 days ago
Guardian MusicWhich album sleeves stand out from the pack simply by being dreadful?The album cover is an increasingly underappreciated art form. The days of the double gatefold epic artwork you could hold in your hand, cherish or even deface if the fancy took you ... more info

Spot-On: The Indecent

4434 days ago
Totally Fuzzy The Indecent make music that is aggressive, subtle, poetic, noisy, and quite often all these things at once. Influenced by Patti Smith, the Gits, the Velvet Underground, Barrett’s Floyd, and many Seattle-type things, the Indecent are Emily Brout (... more info

James Murphy: soundtrack of my life

4439 days ago
Guardian MusicThe former LCD Soundsystem frontman on the Velvet Underground, Bowie and Can, and what made him first want to make musicBorn in New Jersey in 1970, James Murphy spent his formative years playing drums in a series of low-profile rock bands and working... more info

John Cale: Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood – review

4441 days ago
Guardian Music(Double six)Always the most avant-garde member of the Velvet Underground, John Cale's first new album since 2005 features pianos being hit by fists, screaming synthesisers and violas, insistent beats and Chic-style funk guitar motifs. There are nods ... more info

Jarvis Cocker on radio: this isn't hardcore

4442 days ago
Guardian MusicJarvis Cocker set out to make a BBC 6music show that was hangover friendly – and ended up with three languid hours of music, stories and leftfield requestsIt is shortly after five on a Sunday afternoon. Outside the streets are rain-slicked and autu... more info

John Cale: 'I don't want to end up in Pseud's Corner'

4442 days ago
Guardian MusicThe former Velvet Underground man on his love of hip-hop, why tangerines are more tempting than drugs, and why he doesn't feel bad about taking his anger out on pianos … or chickensHi John, how are you? I'm good. What are we supposed to be doing(1)... more info

'We played to no applause. Just silences'

4443 days ago
Guardian MusicAs John Cale prepares to release his new album, we head to Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music writing – for this 1971 Rolling Stone interview with Cale and former Velvet Underground chanteuse Nico• Read an interview... more info

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