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"NME said we were the best thing since the Sex Pistols. Sounds said we were the worst group they'd ever seen." Why William and Jim Reid feared that The Jesus And Mary Chain's classic debut album Psychocandy might never get released

"It's such a shame that you've made a record full of pop songs and wasted them with all this noise"

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“He phoned me up at seven in the morning and played about ten seconds of the EP over the phone. That was the moment”: Twenty-five years ago, five rowdy New Yorkers released a three-song EP that changed the course of rock’n’roll

The Manhattan quintet whose emergence in 2001 opened the floodgates for a whole new generation of guitar bands

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“They didn’t really know about recording. They didn’t know about overdubbing or about song structure or anything”: Producer John Porter on working with the Smiths on some of their most iconic tracks

We interviewed the producer of the Smiths' early career work recently, and he revealed some eye-opening insights…

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“We always thought it had something”: From Green Day to U2, here's 6 B-sides that became massive hits

They might have been initially maligned by their creators, but these songs were just too good to keep down

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“I don't think Morrissey liked me. I don't think he liked my friendship with Johnny”: Producer John Porter on shaping The Smiths’ most iconic tracks, and why he’s auctioning a treasure trove of original acetates

John found a huge collection of original acetates and mixes of many Smiths’ classics unplayed since the 1980s

MusicRadar

"There is an obvious media shift to delete me from being the central essence of The Smiths": Morrissey thinks that dark forces are conspiring to erase his contributions to The Smiths

Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you

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Soft sandwiches, street fights and surrealism: Marlene Marder’s memoir of Swiss punks Kleenex/Liliput

The guitarist’s diary of their formation and early tours gets its first English translation, offering funny, biting, absorbing insight into the influential band beloved by the likes of Kurt Cobain

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‘I’d wear a mac on stage because of all the spitting’: Lora Logic on punk, prayer and Poly Styrene

As Essential Logic release their second album 43 years after their first, their founder talks squats, scary gigs and her tempestuous relationship with her X-Ray Spex bandmate

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