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Big Star Third – review

4888 days ago

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonFor fans of jangly, emotionally acute indie-rock, Big Star are an ur-band, although their third album, variously dubbed Third and Sister Lovers, is apt to separate the mere admirers from the cult devotees. Recorded in chaos, never pro... more info

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Lou Reed - Lou Reed Inspires Name Of New Spider

4893 days ago

ContactMusic — A newly-discovered genus of spider has been named after rocker Lou ReedAn international group of biologists recently stumbled across the never-before-seen velvet spiders which live underground and decided to use the former Velvet Underground frontman... more info

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I'll Be Your Mirror artists pick their favourite B-Sides ft. Warren Ellis, Bill Wells & Aidan Mo

4899 days ago

DrownedInSound — I'll Be Your Mirror acts as a sister event to the ATP Festivals and is named after the b-side to The Velvet Underground's original All Tomorrow's Parties 7" single. We asked some of the artists performing to tell us their favourite b-sides and 7" sin... more info

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Pop's long players: sometimes extra length makes all the difference

4900 days ago

Guardian Music — The reissue of Sleep's Dopesmoker shows musicians with the nerve to really stretch a song and take listeners on a journeyThe three-minute pop song is an undeniable design classic: short enough to fit on one side of a 7in, long enough to turn a repeat... more info

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(Love) Al Lover offers remix odes to Yauch

4910 days ago

Impose Magazine — Coping with loss takes many forms. For example, I bought Check Your Head and the "Cookypuss" single and jammed those for two days straight, while reading Dan LeRoy's 33 1/3 series contribution on Paul's Boutique. LeRoy references a study on n... more info

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The Great Escape: listen to the lineup

4914 days ago

Guardian Music — Click on the poster to hear bands appearing at Brighton's new music festival – and let us know who's worth checking outThe Great Escape, Brighton's new music festival, is just a week away. Now in its seventh year, the festival sees more than 300 ba... more info

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411 Music Ten Deep 05.02.12: The Top 10 Albums of 1970

4916 days ago

411 Mania — From Black Sabbath's Paranoid and Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin III to The Velvet Underground's Loaded, All Things Must Pass by George Harrison and more, 411's C.A. Bell counts down the top 10 albums of 1970! more info

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Readers recommend: songs about angels – results

4921 days ago

Guardian Music — Thanks for being our Guardian Angels this week and giving us a heavenly lift with your angelic song choicesThere's more than a sprinkling of magic about this week's playlist, compiled from your nominations, over the past week, of songs about angels.H... more info

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Book Notes - Rob Jovanovic "Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Underground "

4928 days ago

LargeHeartedBoy — In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy ... more info

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Now listening: reader playlist

4929 days ago

Guardian Music — Nine sunny songs to get you through a grey dayEach week, we invite someone to share a playlist of songs they've been listening to recently. Rose Clark is a history of art and english graduate who lives and works near London. Follow her on Twitter. T... more info

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Big Star Third – review

Lou Reed - Lou Reed Inspires Name Of New Spider

I'll Be Your Mirror artists pick their favourite B-Sides ft. Warren Ellis, Bill Wells & Aidan Mo

Pop's long players: sometimes extra length makes all the difference

(Love) Al Lover offers remix odes to Yauch

The Great Escape: listen to the lineup

411 Music Ten Deep 05.02.12: The Top 10 Albums of 1970

Readers recommend: songs about angels – results

Book Notes - Rob Jovanovic "Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Underground "

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