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Absolute Radio 60s and 70s prepare for launch

4787 days ago
Guardian Music — New digital stations to be fronted by Pete Mitchell and Richard SkinnerAbsolute Radio is to turn the dial back to the 1960s and 1970s with two new digital radio stations fronted by Pete Mitchell and Richard Skinner.Absolute Radio 60s will launch on 2... more info
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John Cale – “Catastrofuk” Video

4790 days ago
Stereogum — Velvet Underground figurehead John Cale’s new video for “Catastrofuk” is a pretty freaky scene (basically, The Alice In Wonderland tea party scene + the moon!) which coincides with the controlled chaos of the track. The director is Eden Cale, h... more info
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Lou Reed - Lou Reed Tops Most Overrated Lyricist List

4790 days ago
ContactMusic — Lou Reed has been named the Most Overrated Lyricist in a new online poll The former Velvet Underground frontman who has penned classic tunes like Walk on the Wild Side and Perfect Day beat Interpols Paul Banks and Serj Tankian of System of a Down in.... more info
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Veronica Falls: Veronica Falls – review

4791 days ago
Guardian Music — (Bella Union)It's easy enough to pick Veronica Falls' musical antecedents – they are children of mid-80s indiepop, the branch of the family that traced its descent from the Velvet Underground's third album. Guitars are frantically down-strummed, th... more info
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Metallica and Lou Reed promise 'sex' and 'murder' in second trailer for 'Lulu' – video

4792 days ago
NME — Metal titans and former Velvet Underground man have revealed a new 97 second clip more info
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THE THURSDAY CORRESPONDENT

4792 days ago
The Vinyl Villain — Some Fantastic PlaceOn Friday 6th August 2010 JC wrote a piece on the Dundee band The View’s single Superstar Tradesman and included in the article was a track which was in my opinion the worst ever cover version I’ve ever heard….Up the Junctio... more info
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Old music: The Beatle-ettes – Only Seventeen

4797 days ago
Guardian Music — The Beatles spawned a legion of US copyists and chancers. Here's one that got the recipe gloriously right …While Beatlemania in Britain was confined to mooning over record sleeves and screaming until you wet yourself (mostly girls), or buying guita... more info
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My favourite album: Songs of Leonard Cohen by Leonard Cohen

4798 days ago
Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Andrew Pulver explains how he fell for the dark charms of a figure who used to be a joke to himI'd be lying if I said Leonard Cohen's records soundtracked my adolescence, or comforted me during st... more info
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Old music: Wasted Youth – Jealousy

4806 days ago
Guardian Music — Their home was the centre of mod and Oi!, but east London's Wasted Youth chose a darker path Released in 1980, when being influenced by the Velvet Underground seemed breathtakingly original and exciting, Wasted Youth's debut single scaled the dizzy h... more info
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Why I love If You're Feeling Sinister

4807 days ago
Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Malcolm Jack writes about an album that will always feel like homeAppropriately enough for a band whose sheer bookishness winds people up, me and Belle and Sebastian got off on the wrong foot. In ... more info
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