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The Great Escape: listen to the lineup

4819 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

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

4821 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

4826 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 "

4833 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

4834 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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Five questions with Cowboy Junkies vocalist Margo Timmins

4841 days ago

Detroit Free Press — Almost 25 years have passed since Cowboy Junkies recorded the indelibly languid version of the Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane," which launched the band's career. Many more songs, sessions and tours have followed since then, but the Canadi... more info

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The reaction to Viva Brother's break-up proves we love being part of a mob

4848 days ago

Guardian Music — Viva Brother's split and Samantha Brick's Daily Mail article provoked torrents of abuse. Why? Can't we separate a person's worth from the quality of their workIt's a commonplace in consideration of art: separate the work from the person. Larkin's poe... more info

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Lantern :: Burned Youth (Cassette)

4849 days ago

Aquarium Drunkard — Alright, enough of the pretty. Switching gears, this has been scratching that Royal Trux itch of late – say, if paired with Spacemen 3′s Forged Prescriptions and the Velvet Underground’s ’67 Gymnasium bootleg. The three tracks below hail from... more info

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