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Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll

5123 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
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Readers recommend: songs about wine – results

5123 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
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Thurston Moore – review

5130 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)

5131 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
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Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds – review

5135 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
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Readers recommend: songs about the afterlife – results

5137 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
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Lou Reed & Band - Wolverhampton Civic Hall: Friday 1st July 2011

5138 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
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Retriever - The Rattle And The Hiss (EP stream)

5154 days ago
Totally Fuzzy — Think Nico and Velvet Underground, think early days Patti Smith, think Siouxsie Sioux, think the Jesus and Mary Chain, think Raveonettes, think The Kills, then forget everything you've ever thought and heard before. BBC Tyne Introducing: Retrie... more info
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(Just Heard) Angus MacLise rises

5155 days ago
Impose Magazine — Thank Friendship Bracelet for bringing our attention to the new attention being given to founding (if temporary) Velvet Underground member Angus MacLise (1938-1979), and his work in percussive drone, as exemplified in a series of recordings he did wi... more info
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Tangled Hair - Apples (EP stream)

5157 days ago
Totally Fuzzy — "Most of us know by now that anything that comes by way of Big Scary Monsters is guaranteed to please. For the longest time, the only Tangled Hair tracks to my name were the four I had downloaded sometime last year. And they were getting worn out â... more info
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