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What would you include in your version of indie history?

4913 days ago

Guardian Music — In a new seven-part series, Guardian and Observer writers are trying to tell the history of modern music. Today they pick 50 key moments in indie – but what did they miss?• See the interactive timeline• Listen to our ultimate indie Spotify play... more info

The Modern Lovers' Jonathan Richman brings together light and dark

4913 days ago

Guardian Music — March 1972: Number 5 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicThe young Bostonian Jonathan Richman fell under the spell of the Velvet Underground as a teenager, and when he formed his own band, the Modern Lovers, he sought to c... more info

Jonathan Richman The Velvet Underground John Cale

The Velvet Underground record their first demos

4913 days ago

Guardian Music — July 1965: Number 2 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicThe most influential group in indie history – crucial to punks, goths, postpunks and indiepoppers – first set music to tape in a loft apartment on Ludlow Street, ... more info

The Velvet Underground John Cale Lou Reed

Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll

4917 days ago

Guardian Music — When I think of bookishness in music, it's not of Katy Perry or will.i.am, but something more awkward, more earnest, the type of music that stays inside on a sunny dayI recently found myself at two events – each extraordinary in its own way – tha... more info

Katy Perry will.i.am Emmy the Great Summer Camp The Black Eyed Peas Kate Bush Patti Smith Syd Barrett Vic Chesnutt The Velvet Underground The Smiths Belle and Sebastian Van Morrison

Readers recommend: songs about wine – results

4917 days ago

Guardian Music — From lilac wine to champagne supernovas, we drink deep from your vintage selection of songs about the sauce. HicAlcohol is intrinsically associated with rock'n'roll, so it was unsurprising that there were crate loads of recommendations for songs abou... more info

Jerry Lee Lewis UB40 Neil Diamond Seasick Steve Whitesnake Oasis Elkie Brooks Jeff Buckley The Velvet Underground John Cale

Thurston Moore – review

4924 days ago

Guardian Music — Union Chapel, LondonIn his 30 years fronting New York art-rock perennials Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore has always looked to confound expectations. The cult star's latest solo project may just be his most surprising yet. Produced by Beck, Moore's recen... more info

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Greatest Un-Hits: MC 900 Ft. Jesus’ “If I Only Had a Brain” (1994)

4925 days ago

Popdose — Certain musical acts come along that are so original, so different, so forward leaning that their arrival brings irrevocable change to the fabric of pop music…even if chart placements and sales figures don’t back it up. The Ramones or Velvet Unde... more info

Ramones The Velvet Underground

Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds – review

4929 days ago

Guardian Music — Does it matter that pop music is stuck in the same old groove?Like many people of a certain age, the first thing I did upon going to university was to blow my entire student grant on records. Sixties French chansonnières, 30s Greek rembetika, seven-... more info

John Peel The Velvet Underground Sex Pistols New York Dolls Sonic Youth Dizzee Rascal Public Enemy

Readers recommend: songs about the afterlife – results

4931 days ago

Guardian Music — Whether knocking on heaven's door or taking the highway to hell, here are your favourite songs about the great beyondPhew. Harold Camping's prediction of a rapture last weekend didn't materialise – though like all good self-publicists, he's doing h... more info

The Velvet Underground Iron & Wine Bob Dylan Pixies Eric Burdon

Lou Reed & Band - Wolverhampton Civic Hall: Friday 1st July 2011

4932 days ago

Altsounds — New York's finest and one of the founding fathers of punk music. With The Velvet Underground, Reed and his cohorts broke of mould of underground music, re-fashioning it with his own style and panache. A highly influential and respected musician and c... more info

Lou Reed The Velvet Underground

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What would you include in your version of indie history?

The Modern Lovers' Jonathan Richman brings together light and dark

The Velvet Underground record their first demos

Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll

Readers recommend: songs about wine – results

Thurston Moore – review

Greatest Un-Hits: MC 900 Ft. Jesus’ “If I Only Had a Brain” (1994)

Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds – review

Readers recommend: songs about the afterlife – results

Lou Reed & Band - Wolverhampton Civic Hall: Friday 1st July 2011

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