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4767 days ago
Guardian MusicFriendly Fires, On tourFriendly Fires are a band whose music is flying through the 1980s. Having started with streamlined punk-funk, full of wild drumming and guitar thrashing, they've now arrived at 1983 and Club Tropicana. The band's current album ... more info

EMI's new music sandboxes connect artists with app developers

4769 days ago
Guardian MusicGorillaz, Tinie Tempah, Professor Green and others could benefit from innovative ideas around their musicOne of the worst conference cliches currently floating around the tech industry is this: app developers are the new rock stars. The idea being th... more info

Matthew Bourne awakens Sleeping Beauty in 21st century

4777 days ago
Guardian MusicThe choreographer, known for his radical updates of classic works, is to create a new version of Tchaikovsky's ballet in which the princess will wake up in 2011 – and not fall in love at first sightAfter an all-male Swan Lake and the high-camp kits... more info

New Order – review

4780 days ago
Guardian MusicLe Bataclan, ParisWith Mancunians New Order about to play their first gig since 2006 (and their first ever without bassist Peter Hook), and news from back home announcing the reformation of another seminal Manchester band, the Stone Roses, it's only ... more info

Stones Roses reunion: three baggy playlists

4785 days ago
Guardian MusicPop historian Jon Savage listens to the best of the Stone Roses and their contemporaries – from Baby Ford to the Sabres of Paradise – and creates the perfect set of baggy playlistsQuite apart from the quality of their music, the Stone Roses had a... more info

Now that's what I call a favourite album

4786 days ago
Guardian MusicOur writers have been picking their favourite albums. To end the series, Peter Robinson pines for the pop music of his pastI'm conscious that some readers, blowing into a paper bag in one hand and clutching a copy of Astral Weeks in the other, may th... more info

Band T-shirts: 'I warn you – don't throw them out'

4789 days ago
Guardian MusicThe band T-shirt is a phenomenon that not only gives teenagers a sense of belonging, as Jude Rogers discovered – it's also about adults holding on to the passions of youthMy first was REM. It was white, loose, and had a chequerboard on the front. I... more info

New Look

4796 days ago
The Music FixCapsule Review: Electro duo's debut hits the (pri)mark. Gary K goes in search of retail therapy 2001: the year of the duo. Tragi-disco forefathers Pet Shop Boys gaze on proudly as the electro-wars fizz and burr, and their virtual offspring continue ... more info

Readers recommend: songs about apologies – results

4811 days ago
Guardian MusicWe didn't want remorse or self-pity, just a sincere – or not so sincere – 'sorry'. Here are your favourite pleas for forgivenessLast week I invited suggestions of songs about apologies. Some of you offered songs about feeling remorse, or regret, ... more info

An email from MNEK

4817 days ago
Pop JusticeOn February 5 2009 we received an email from a 14-year-old singer/producer called MNEK. We'd seen him knocking around online before that, but his email was a very good one. "I’m unsigned so there’s none of that press release bullshit," he said.... more info

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