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"I always think this is the closest anyone has ever come to making the perfect record": The story of The Undertones' punk classic Teenage Kicks

Guitarist and songwriter John O’Neill on how a young band from Derry created a classic: "I can’t believe someone didn’t come up with it before me"

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"Roy Thomas Baker would organise food fights and set fire to the mixing desk": How Bill Nelson built up then broke up Be-Bop Deluxe

Bill Nelson on Jimi Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the brilliant five-album career of art-rockers Be-Bop Deluxe

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Duane Eddy’s twang remains one of rock’n’roll’s greatest sounds

The late guitarist was rightly ubiquitous in the late 1950s thanks to his otherworldly sound, earning admirers from Bruce Springsteen to John Peel

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Station to station: the European language DJs taking radio to new realms

Cian Ó Cíobháin’s show, ‘one of the most radical in the world’, has been beguiling listeners in Irish for 25 years. Others, from Warsaw to Lyon, offer similar musical adventures

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“Grindcore really resonated with Americans. Our bands were being noticed before they’d even gone over there”: the ear-splitting history of Earache Records, the label that changed metal

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"All of a sudden we play at blinding speed and unbearable intensity, and everyone starts to take notice and stand up": How King Crimson got started

Recorded in just 10 days in 1969, King Crimson’s iconic In The Court Of The Crimson King has been called “the true point at which progressive rock was born”. We look at the making of a landmark album

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“I don’t know that much about folk music, except that most of it bores me to tears”: the incredible life of Michael Chapman, the greatest singer-songwriter the world never knew about

The life and times of Michael Chapman, the cult singer and guitarist beloved of David Bowie, Elton John and Sonic Youth

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How Laurie Anderson made the experimental classic O Superman: "The lyrics are a one-sided conversation, like a prayer to God. I wanted it to be like a Greek chorus – not just one voice – so I used a vocoder"

As the unlikely 1981 hit goes viral on TikTok, we tell the story of Laurie Anderson's strangely compelling masterpiece

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"When we had to do children’s TV with Craig Charles, it was very bizarre." Shane Embury, longest-serving member of legendary grindcore innovators Napalm Death, has a book out, and it's unlike any other you'll read this year

We delve inside Shane Embury's fascinating new autobiography with the man himself

Metal Hammer

John Hyatt obituary

Other lives: Artist and university professor who had a separate musical career in the post-punk band the Three Johns

The Guardian - UK

'Star Trek: The Mission and Other Stories' offers fans a stellar new anthology

Star Trek Explorer magazine presents "Star Trek: 'The Mission' and Other Stories" anthology, a collection of 14 stories featuring Will Riker, Benjamin Sisko, the Borg and more.

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Annie Nightingale obituary

Radio 1’s longest-serving broadcaster, dedicated to groundbreaking music for more than 50 years

The Guardian - UK

"I went to Rough Trade: they told me it was the worst record they ever heard in their life. Everybody else that I could get a meeting with told me the same thing": The Undertones' Teenage Kicks wasn't always considered a punk rock masterpiece

Good Vibrations founder/Northern Irish punk legend Terri Hooley recalls how The Undertones were rejected by every British record label

Louder

“I’m not interested in my own angst. I like a good story. Violence. A bit of sex, a bit of drinking, a bit of drugs, y’knoworramean?” A tribute to Shane MacGowan, the genius lyricist who thought the music was more important than the words

As the music of the 80s became more polished, synthesised and over-produced, The Pogues took it back to its rudiments. And at the heart of it was Shane MacGowan and his lyrics: funny, romantic, full of characters and stories

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‘No one else is saving it’: the fight to protect a historic music collection

The ARChive of Contemporary Music, which houses more than 90m songs and is supported by names such as Martin Scorsese, is in need of a new home

The Guardian - US

Tony Visconti: ‘I’ve been a better record producer than I’ve been a husband’

The super-producer, who worked with David Bowie and Marc Bolan among others, reflects on a long career filled with highs and lows

The Guardian - UK

‘I had to compose myself when I first heard her’: the astonishing musical versatility of the late Charlotte Greig

From rap mixtapes to music journalism and ghostly drum machine-led folk, the late British artist had few boundaries. Her husband and fans remember her tough, inspiring life

The Guardian - UK

Another starry-eyed love song to Northampton

Letter: Bob Dowdeswell recalls Linda Jardim’s song Energy in Northampton and John Peel’s fondness for the town’s bypass

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‘On best behaviour, he was a joy’: the lost archive of English pop eccentric Vivian Stanshall

The man best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band was brilliant but volatile, and met an untimely end. Now his unfinished work has been rescued

Guitar World

The world’s most expensive guitar pick? A Kurt Cobain-signed plectrum, thought to have tracked the Nevermind demos, has sold at auction for over $14,000

The pick features Cobain’s doodled take on the Dunlop Tortex logo. “I knew this piece was special when I saw it,” says buyer Shaun Ertischek

Daily Mirror

Radio 2 planning to bring icons like Terry Wogan 'back from the dead' with spin-off station

There has reportedly been a proposal to bring back old shows to appeal to an older audience

The Independent UK

Glastonbury secret sets 2022: Rumours and how find out who will play

Jack White and George Ezra are confirmed to be playing sets on Sunday

The Independent UK

Glastonbury secret sets 2023: Rumours and how find out who will play

Who are the ChurnUps and the other rumours for secret sets at this year’s festival?

The Guardian - UK

‘An astounding rush of real-time creativity’: 40 years of the Smiths’ Peel Sessions

Not everyone finds it easy to listen to the Smiths now, but those early transmissions were utterly formative for this vital new band and their enraptured fans

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Aylesbury Friars: the story of a venue

The Buckinghamshire venue was instrumental in furthering the careers of David Bowie, Genesis, VdGG, King Crimson, Marillion and more

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