Rock Sellout —
The Uk legends Gang Of Four recently played "Damaged Goods" recently on Later With Jools Holland. It looks like the boys still got it. Very cool to see.The Gang's debut single, "Damaged Goods" backed with "(Love Like) Anthrax" and "Armalite Rifle... more info
BBC News - UK — A former music studio set up by late broadcasting legend John Peel is bestowed with two prestigious English Heritage Blue Plaques. more info
Altsounds — *Kats Karavan* is a splendid 4-CD set charting the history of John Peel’s iconoclastic shows spanning 5 decades from the late 1960s until his sad and untimely death in 2004. Champion of the obscure and unheard, he introduced whole generation... more info
Altsounds — “If that’s not a freakout, then I’m a dutchman’ John Peel after airing the Heads’ first Peel session
The HEADS (Paul Allen - guitars, vocals, keys, Wayne Maskell - Drums, H.O. Morgan - bassage, Simon Pr... more info
Thrash Hits — This week at Thrash Hits we’ve been listening a bit too much to Grind Madness at the BBC, the formcoming 118-track mammoth compilation of John Peel’s infamous Earache live sessions. And it got us thinking - what better way to open our series of l... more info
The Independent — Hailed by John Peel as the "best pop song of all time", "Teenage Kicks" was originally about masturbation, its creator, Feargal Sharkey, admitted yesterday, 31 years after its release. more info
Guardian Music — The Cribs have always been obsessed with the DIY culture surrounding music. They asked their favourite fanzine writer Karren Ablaze to write about how 'zines changed her lifeGrowing up in the boring suburbs of Manchester in the 1980s, I learnt to liv... more info
Guardian Music — In 1983, Geoff Travis signed the Smiths to Rough Trade. 26 years later, guitarist Johnny interviews the label boss for the Cribs' takeover of guardian.co.uk/musicJohnny Marr: Can you explain, for those who might not know, how you started the Rough Tr... more info