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Manic Street Preachers, Indie's autodidacts, provoke the masses

4863 days ago
Guardian Music21 January 1991: Number 36 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicWith lines like "I laughed when Lennon got shot", Manic Street Preachers' first single for Heavenly, Motown Junk, was a shot across the bows, a kamikaze manife... more info

Def Jam Records launched by Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin

4864 days ago
Guardian Music1984: Number 8 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of R&B and hip-hop musicThe Def Jam label holds an almost mythical status within hip-hop. How come? After all, it was far from the first to put out rap music and, though it released num... more info

De La Soul's Three Feet High and Rising moves hip-hop into the Daisy Age

4864 days ago
Guardian Music3 March 1989: Number 22 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of R&B and hip-hop music"Yet our best-trained, best-educated, best-equipped, best-prepared troops refuse to fight. Matter of fact, it's safe to say that they would rather switc... more info

Bill Clinton's Sister Souljah moment tops year of political controversy

4864 days ago
Guardian MusicMay 1992: Number 29 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of hip-hop"If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?" The question may have sounded rhetorical, but rapper Sister Souljah's inflammato... more info

Rap-metal is born

4865 days ago
Guardian Music4 July 1986: Number 40 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicEver wondered why Limp Bizkit exist? Blame the day that Walk This Way, a collaborative cover version of a 1975 Aerosmith single by Run-DMC and Aerosmith's Steve Tyl... more info

Flavor Flav - Flavor Flav Developing Pimp-vampire Movie

4869 days ago
ContactMusicRapper Flavor Flav is hoping to make his mark in the movies with a new horror film about a vampire pimp. The colourful Public Enemy star is developing a project called MACkula. He says, "He's a pimped-out vampire. . . (The film is) a cross between th... more info

Flavor Flav - Flavor Flav Spent Thousands Of Dollars On Drugs A Day

4870 days ago
ContactMusicHip-hop veteran Flavor Flav spent thousands of dollars on drugs a day - for six years. The Public Enemy star and reality TV regular details the extent of his battle for sobriety in his new memoir Flavor Flav Icon, admitting he'd never be able to live... more info

New band of the day – No 1,036: The Civil Wars

4874 days ago
Guardian MusicWe have Adele to thank for introducing us to this Americana duo, whose songs deal with affairs of the heart and lives lived hardHometown: Nashville.The lineup: Joy Williams and John Paul White.The background: Adele is the new Morrissey. Discuss. We d... more info

Flavor Flav Talks Flavor Of Love With XXL

4875 days ago
VH1 BlogFlavor Flav has a memoir coming out on June 1st called The Icon The Memoir in which the Public Enemy rapper discusses his drug addiction, his trouble with the law, and of course, his time spent on VH1′s Flavor of Love. In an interview with XXL Maga... more info

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

4879 days ago
Guardian MusicDoes 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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