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Glastonbury: Musicians' memories of 'the big daddy of all festivals' - video

4902 days ago
Guardian MusicThe Kinks' Ray Davies, New York indie singer Darwin Deez, Metronomy's Joseph Mount and About Group/This Heat drummer Charles Hayward reflect on Glastonbury. And Donovan performs The Music Maker, a song he wrote about the festivalAndy GallagherBen Kap... more info

Portrait of the artist: Alice Cooper, musician

4905 days ago
Guardian Music'I worked with Salvador Dalí for four days. He did a sculpture of my brain with a chocolate eclair running down the back'What got you started?I was at that perfect age: I was 15 when the Beatles came out in the US; then the Rolling Stones, the Kinks... more info

Ray Davies/LPO/Crouch End Festival Chorus - review

4905 days ago
Guardian MusicMeltdown festival, LondonA man blessed in many ways, but never with a sunny disposition, it sometimes seems as if Ray Davies spent the entire 60s complaining. The most recurring of his grumbles involved the Kinks's record company. Not only did Pye Re... more info

Meltdown round-up

4907 days ago
Guardian MusicSouthbank Centre, London"I was on acid when I saw the Kinks for the first time," Ron Sexsmith mutters. Ray Davies – former Kink and current Meltdown curator – slings on a guitar, preparing to accompany the Canadian troubadour on a version of the ... more info

Gem Archer & Liam Gallagher Talk Beady Eye, Oasis And Noel Gallagher

4909 days ago
Stopcryingyourheartout.comWhen you’ve shot your mouth off and claimed that your band is the best in the world, what do you say when that band dissolves and you form a new one?“We’re the second-best band in the world.”So says Liam Gallagher, singer from ’90s Britpop ... more info

Stream Unknown Mortal Orchestra

4910 days ago
StereogumWhen first writing about BTW Unknown Mortal Orchestra, the glammed-up, psychedelic, punked-out project of Oregon (via New Zealand) resident Ruban Nielson, I mentioned the Kinks, Sly Stone, and Syd Barrett, noting the self-titled debut sounds like “... more info

Yo La Tengo at Meltdown

4911 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Festival Hall, LondonAn indie institution 27 years in the making, Yo La Tengo are gloriously unpredictable. It's often said that no two shows by the New Jersey trio are alike. This is nowhere more apparent than at Sunday's Meltdown show, titled... more info

Meltdown Mixtape Monday: The Sonics' favourite Kinks tracks

4912 days ago
DrownedInSoundThe Sonics were basically the germ that spawned punk rock. 40 years after they split up, they've reformed to play Ray Davies' Meltdown festival. As a thank you to Ray for picking them at his curated event, Rob Lind and Jerry Roslie from The Sonics ha... more info

Ray Davies at Meltdown - review

4912 days ago
Guardian MusicKicking off his festival, the former Kinks frontman was in giddy formGiven his authorship of Waterloo Sunset, chances were always high that Ray Davies playing the Southbank Centre in his capacity as curator of this year's Meltdown was going to be spe... more info

Sleeve Notes: Ray Davies's Meltdown

4915 days ago
Guardian MusicThis week we've been getting in gear for Ray Davies's Meltdown festival and listening to a lot of albumsThree reasons why we're excited about MeltdownRay Davies will be playing, just like he is here As will Anna Calvi, Suggs and Geno Washington And, ... more info

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