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Tom Rosenthal: Britain's Best Unknown Songwriter

He's been recording and releasing for years, but you almost certainly don't know him. You'd do yourself a favour by changing this asap...

1 Comment David Hillier

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iTunes Match: It Tested My Sanity, But It Was Worth it In The End

Armed with gift cards, I took the plunge and downloaded iTunes Match. 96 hours later and despite wanting to tear my hair out with frustration, it was worth the long wait.

4 Comments Raj Bains

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From McFly To Son Of Dork: My Top 5 Rubbish Pop Songs

I'm always the last to know what the latest trend is, which usually manifests itself in me tapping my feet when other people are violently throwing up. No longer will I hide in the dark about my guilty pleasures, it's time to fess up.

2 Harry Harris

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I Was Black Sabbath's Mystery Guitarist

Tony "The Cat" Martin was said to be every bit as good as Dio, yet he was systematically booted out of Black Sabbath, and has since had his name white washed from the band's history...

5 Dan Swinhoe

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How To Make The Ultimate Grime Documentary

Grime music is a rapidly growing, vibrant & vital genre steeped in a rich history. So why are there no good documentaries about it? This guide should help any filmmaker trying to capture the genre on film...

2 Freddie Slaughter

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PJ Proby: Entertainer, Legend, Madman

PJ Proby is a survivor of the first era of rock and roll who was blacklisted for splitting his trousers but refused to shuffle off and die quietl...

12 Jon Wilde

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The Kurt Cobain Sticker Album: "Kurt And The Gang"

‘Kurt and the Gang’ is a sticker collection chronicling the life, influence and friends of Kurt Cobain. January 10th creators Belly Kids will...

1 Sabotage

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Waterpistol by Shack: The Greatest Album You Don’t Own

Stop whatever you're doing and look at this. One of rock 'n' roll's most underrated bands just might change your life.

44 Johnny Lake

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The Art of The Fall

You never know what you’re going to get with Mark E Smith. Having been commissioned to interview him for the posh arts magazine Frieze, myself ...

Jon Wilde

Why Grime is The Music Industry's Untameable Beast

Grime music is an ethos, a feeling, a gut reaction that aims for the jugular, and with a current renaissance underway, it’s growing, evolving beyond the realms of what lay before...

11 Comments Freddie Slaughter

Four Bands Who'll Rule In 2013

Embers, Folks, Pins & Georgie Rose - check out this lot before everyone else does in 2013...

6 Comments Adam Keyworth

Some Girls: Live in Texas '78 - Rock N' Roll At Its Finest

A great reminder of the true magic that the group produced at the tail end of their golden age.

Joe Viglione

10 Songs To Keep You Going At The Gym

Staring the New Year with a fitness bang? Can't face watching Sky Sports while on the rower? This playlist will hel...

2 Comments Ben McAleer

The La’s: The Band I Had Waited All My Life To Hear

One Easter Bank Holiday Monday about twenty two years ago me and my pal were on the piss down Beverley Road after a...

13 Comments Russ Litten

MOREMusic

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The 10 Greatest Soulful Cover Versions

They say you can’t improve on the truth but everything else has scope to get better. Tweaking the prototype can have some enjoyable results as ...

28 Joshua Burt

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Why I Love Martin Rossiter's Defenestration Of St Martin

The ex-Gene frontman has just released a new record, and it's a fitting rebuttal to anyone that might see him as a Britpop also-ran...

2 Paul Rayson

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Marianne Faithfull: An Unfair Life

She was always labelled as just being Mick Jagger's missus, but, as 'Broken English' proves, she was a bloody talented musician in her own right....

4 Dale Shaw

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No Sell Out: Hip Hop's Golden Era

Hip Hop, despite being over 40, is still a relatively young art form... but has it's had it's Golden Era already? Or can artists of today reclaim...

27 Jimmy-Jinx

8 Great Songs About Big Beautiful Women (Not Including Queen Or Sir Mix-a-Lot)

From Jimmy Castor to Johnny Otis via AC/DC and Piano Red, these songs celebrate the larger lady. Crank up the volume and get your arses shaking...

13 Comments Owen Blackhurst

The Drive-By Truckers: Southern Fried Genius

Looking for a slice of balls-out and boozy country to brighten up your music collection? Then look no further than ...

3 Comments Paul Knott

The Brilliance Of Fairytale Of New York

Beautiful and clever, no other Christmas record comes close to the majesty of The Pogues' festive classic.

20 Comments Andrew Vaughan

Fairytale Of What? 5 Great Alternative Christmas Anthems

We all know The Pogues, Slade, Cliff and Wizzard, but there's a million other ace Yuletide tracks out there. Check...

Andy VP

ABBA: Nothing Guilty About This Pleasure

Abba are often considered to be the guiltiest of guilty pleasures. But what's wrong with enjoying some the Swede's ...

12 Comments Daisy Buchanan

MOREMusic

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Why Last Christmas Is The Best Christmas Song Ever

Everyone says they love Fairytale Of New York, but if you're looking for the true universal favourite it's really all about the brothers Wham...

21 Martin Appleby

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Dominick The Donkey and 5 Hideous Christmas Number Ones

With the combination of terrible pop music and comedy acts vying for this year’s Christmas number one, here are some previous Christmas songs g...

10 Rob Clyne

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A Decade Without Joe Strummer: 10 Of The Best From The Voice Of A Generation

I can hardly believe it's been 10 years since the great man passed, here's a collection of my favourites from the street poet laureate of punk ro...

13 Owen Blackhurst

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John Peel's Last Present

Seeing Danny Boyle turn on the neon sign in Salford reminded the author of the last time she saw John Peel.

3 Mary Anne Hobbs

Holly Golightly: "I Am The Antichrist From Europe"

The singer-songwriter has recently relocated to Georgia where she raises horses and makes music. An idyllic life p...

3 Comments Dale Shaw

Squeeze Interviewed: "We Used to Car Surf in Brisbane"

The classic band have been undergoing a resurgence since a BBC4 documentary; here Chris Difford talks about the the...

1 Comment Chris Barrett

Emeli Sandé: From Critics' Choice to Public Enemy

From the high of bookending Olympics' Ceremonies, to the low of dreaded X Factor live shows, Emeli Sandé has gone ...

7 Comments Sam Diss

20 Reasons Why AC/DC Are Better Than Led Zeppelin

It's one of many eternal debate in the music worlds: who's better out of the Aussie rock n' rollers or the blue-roc...

28 Comments Martin Appleby

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Morrissey's History of Being a Twat

Morrissey's recent comments on Jacintha Saldanha's suicide has once again shone a light on his twatishness. Here's why we all should've seen it coming from the start...

63 Stuart Gyseman

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The Misadventures of Slick Rick

Before 2Pac and Notorious BIG there was Slick Rick. The Godfather of gangsta rap, who is 47 today, only had one eye and was born in South London and if that wasn't bad enough, he was locked up unjustly after the 9/11 attacks. In 2002 he spoke to me from his cell about guns, drugs, fame and hard luck...

9 Matt Weiner

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PSY Apologises Gangnam Style, Can America Afford To Accept?

The horse-riding mentalist has apologised for essentially wishing America dead, but if they accept they will look stupid on two counts...

3 Gareth Dimelow

The Death Of Local
Music Tribes

Shoegazing, Madchester, Merseybeat, all genres rooted to a geographical location. The internet has changed all of t...

Jim Keoghan

A Tribute To Lyrical Genius Shane MacGowan

The rebellious anti-hero straight out of the pages of a J P Donleavy novel, is much more than a self-destructive al...

12 Comments Andrew Nixon

The Tormented Genius Of Kraftwerk's Electric Café

Following the excellent Computer World, the electronic pioneers had become victims of their own success. Synths wer...

10 Comments Daniel Kalder

Melanin 9's Magna Carta: Hip-Hop 3.0

UK 90s inspired rapper "Melanin 9" recently dropped his debut LP "Magna Carta", and despite being labelled as remix...

Tobi Oke

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