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Fugs' Tuli Kupferberg benefit show w/ Lou Reed, John Zorn, Sonic Youth, more ++ Velvet Underground 'reunion' audio

5643 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Velvet Underground - live from the New York Public Library (MP3) Lou Reed, John Zorn, Sonic Youth and others will play a benefit concert for Tuli Kupferberg, the Beat poet and original member of the Fugs, at St. Ann's... more info

Vic Chesnutt obituary

5646 days ago

Guardian Music — American singer-songwriter acclaimed for his raw, uncompromising lyricsThe singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt, who has died aged 45 after an overdose of muscle relaxants, was a veteran presence in the independent, rather than the mainstream, music charts... more info

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Rowland S Howard: A guitar god remembered

5646 days ago

Guardian Music — Lean, ravaged and always with a cigarette dangling from his lips, the Birthday Party's Rowland S Howard pummelled his guitar until it could howl no moreI first saw Rowland S Howard, who died from liver cancer on 30 December, play live when he tore my... more info

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Readers recommend: Hangover songs

5649 days ago

Guardian Music — Last week was all about new beginnings. As you stagger home from welcoming in 2010, we want your pick of songs about the morning afterHa-ppy Noo Year! My best wishes to you in 2010 written in my best New York gangster accent.This week's topic is, I a... more info

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Ten Acts to Watch in 2010

5652 days ago

Spinner.com — Filed under: UKFlorence Welch, Lady Gaga, La Roux and Little Boots were the "new" headline figures in music in 2009. These feisty females certainly kicked up a storm in terms of sales figures, gossip column inches and controversy, but the story behin... more info

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The Living Kills

5659 days ago

Rock Sellout — Got a 7" from The Living Kills on my doorstep yesterday. A four-piece band from Brooklyn playing spaced out 60's/70's psych rock that reminds me of some Yo La Tengo playing Velvet Underground. Good stuff. more info

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New band of the day â€“ No 694: The Cheek

5659 days ago

Guardian Music — These punky popsters aspire to be Roxy Music, but end up sounding like Menswear ... only not as goodHometown: Woodbridge, Suffolk.The lineup: Christian (guitar), Charlie (vocals, guitar), Rory (vocals), Ali (drums) and Thom (bass).The background: The... more info

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F&M playlist

5663 days ago

Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offFrankie Goes to Hollywood The Power of Love A perfect winter No 1, dizzy with electric pianos and overblown strings, drunk with gothic lyrics about death-defying love, and ... more info

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Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions: Through the Devil Softly | CD review

5663 days ago

Guardian Music — (Nettwerk)With only four albums in two decades â€“ two of them with the much-acclaimed Mazzy Star â€“ and a handful of appearances with Massive Attack and the Chemical Brothers, Hope Sandoval isn't one to rush things or bow to conventional ... more info

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