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Alex James - Alex James Gets Emotional Over Friends' Drug Deaths

5665 days ago

ContactMusic — Blur star Alex James fought back tears on U. K. TV on Tuesday (10May11) as he recalled close friends who have died as a result of drugs. The rocker partied hard in London during the 1990s Britpop-era but escaped to the English countryside wh... more info

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Alex James - Alex James Helps Homeless Man

5666 days ago

ContactMusic — Blur star Alex James has helped a homeless man in Britain turn his life around after taking him in for a new U. K. TV show. The rocker invited Danny Newton to stay at his farm in Oxfordshire, England as part the Itv network's Home Is Where T... more info

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Cee-lo Green - Green & Rascal Campaign Against Illegal Downloads

5667 days ago

ContactMusic — Cee Lo Green and Dizzee Rascal are backing a new campaign to discourage illegal downloading. The practise has become rife in recent years, but the Music Matters initiative, devised by Blur's former manager Niamh Byrne, is asking internet users to.... more info

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Album A&E - Gene, 'Olympian'

5673 days ago

NME.COM - Reviews Blog — Britpop was a bit like the Premier League is now (or EPL for our international viewers). Just like Man U and the big clubs who seem to be guaranteed their spots at the division's apex each season, at the peak of the movement's '90s heyday it was alwa... more info

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Manics, Blur, George Michael have their say on the Royal Wedding

5676 days ago

NME — Union Jack sarongs, a 'gay' dress and Princess Diana - musicians wax lyrical on William and Kate's nuptials more info

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Camden Crawl crowns decade of new music in streets of north London

5677 days ago

Guardian Music — This year's bands will hope to walk in the footsteps of festival alumni Mumford & Sons and Amy WinehouseIts early days amounted to a gaggle of obscure indie kids playing to beer-soaked youngsters in pub back rooms, but Saturday will see a rather mor... more info

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New band of the day – No 1,013: Funeral Suits

5677 days ago

Guardian Music — We'd love to describe these purveyors of epic, elegiac rock as mournful and majestic – but we'd be lying to youHometown: Dublin.The lineup: Brian James (vocal, guitar, synth), Mik McKeogh (bass, synth), Greg McCarthy (drums).The background: Funeral... more info

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Greatest Un-Hits: Fretblanket’s “Into the Ocean” (1997)

5685 days ago

Popdose — In the post-Nirvana, post-grunge rock landscape, dominance by a new genre was totally up for grabs. Would it be power pop, a la Matthew Sweet? Lite grunge, or “mallternative”? Britpop? Mallternative (Candlebox, Collective Soul, Seven Mary Three,... more info

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Brother, 'Famous First Words' - First Listen

5685 days ago

NME.COM - Reviews Blog — It’s an odd coincidence that literally a few minutes before I started writing this post, I changed my Facebook status to “I really don’t want the ’90s to happen again. I was promised a future and I DEMAND WHAT’S RIGHTFULLY MINE. Except it... more info

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Gorillaz: The Fall - review

5692 days ago

Guardian Music — Gorillaz' latest is a low-key set made on an iPad on tour. It has a few great flashes, reckons Alexis PetridisThere was something a little odd about the fanfare accompanying the arrival of Gorillaz's fourth album: there wasn't any. No big interviews ... more info

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