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“Still Laughed About It 20 Years Later”: 30 Times Kids Realized Their Dads Were Legendary

From the origins of the family dog to suspicious tales when dads were (gasp!) dating other women, this thread had it all. The post “Still Laughed About It 20 Years Later”: 30 Times Kids Realized Their Dads Were Legendary first appeared on Bored Panda.

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"It's the worst album in the history of mankind": This is the soundtrack of Al Jourgensen's life

Ministry linchpin Al Jourgensen picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals what happened when GG Allin threw up on him in an elevator in New York

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He recorded with Bob Dylan, toured with Tom Waits and replaced Jimmie Vaughan: Duke Robillard is American blues guitar royalty

This lesson in Robillard's improvisational lead guitar style showcases his ability to incorporate melody in solos, and blend blues with jazz

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The What Hi-Fi? team on the first vinyl records they ever bought

As we celebrate Record Store Day 2024 today, team What Hi-Fi? recalls the first time they spent their own money on a vinyl record.

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An infamous 1970s TV interview may have inspired Heath Ledger's Joker - now it's the basis for a hit new horror movie

Late Night with the Devil's Jack Delroy and The Dark Knight's Joker have something in common

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“Poverty accounted for many of my choices – I had this knockoff, fake Tele I used on Rain Dogs… It was awful but also beautiful”: Marc Ribot on recording Tom Waits classics with cheap gear, and why ‘How can I destroy it?’ is one of his session mantras

A session legend who has recorded with Tom Waits, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss and many more, Ribot returns with a new solo album, Connection, and, musically, anything goes

Guitar World

Cookie Monster and Ohio senator make odd allies in shrinkflation complaint

Democratic senator Sherrod Brown endorsed the Sesame Street star’s complaint on products getting smaller as prices remain same

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All you need is love songs: 12 novelists pick their favourite romantic tracks

Writers who know a thing or two about matters of the heart on the love songs they adore – from Sondheim’s bittersweet portrait of a romance sceptic to Roberta Flack’s timeless expression of hope

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“Isn’t it the best when you get into a band and they happen to have so much material to discover?” Yes’ Jon Davison fell in love with the Moody Blues by falling in love with John Lodge’s daughter

Singer has a soft spot for Tom Waits' melancholy first album and tree-hugger activities - and he’s in a band with his prog hero

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Early Life Forms ft Marc Ribot review – freewheeling guitar heroes wing it in style

Belgian guitarist Vitja Pauwels and his new band get it on with the Tom Waits collaborator – live and unrehearsed

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Hitchhiking Tom Waits was once picked up by ‘Nature Boy’ songwriter Eden Ahbez

‘It was a big thrill for me,’ US artist tells Iggy Pop in a rare radio appearance

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Nottingham newcomers Divorce: ‘We have a creative sexual tension between us’

The alt-country four-piece have become a staple on BBC 6 Music, with a patchwork sound that folds in The Beatles, The Carpenters, and Fiona Apple. On the cusp of their headline tour, the band decamp to the pub with Megan Graye to talk all things touring, songwriting – and the…

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Be the last leaf on the tree

Certain trees, such as oaks, hold onto their leaves through a little-understood quality known as marcescence.

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After my husband died, I struggled to listen to music – but now I find comfort in the songs he loved

Music was Margaret McNally and her husband’s shared love language. Two years after his death, she’s working through his playlist to keep his spirit alive

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‘You only spent 10 minutes looking at my paintings?’ Superstar artist (and terrifying interviewee) Julian Schnabel

As the irascible New Yorker unveils his new velvet paintings, he talks about global disasters, sending Trump a resignation speech via Ivanka – and teaching Johnny Depp how to paint

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Need Adam Scott to walk your dog? Natasha Lyonne to solve a crossword? 7 of the best SAG-AFTRA auction items

From Tom Waits to ‘OA’ star Brit Marling – these are the best, and most random, experiences being auctioned by Hollywood stars

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Want Lena Dunham to paint a mural in your home? Hollywood stars auction themselves to help crew through strike

The Girls creator joins Tom Waits, Natasha Lyonne and the cast of the Bear, who donated goods and oddball experiences to raise funds for those behind the scenes

Total Film

Movie fans are sharing their favorite performances by non-actors

Eminem, Cher, and David Bowie are among the top choices

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"Impeccable, clear and soulful in equal measure": Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson album review

Robbie Robertson hooked up with producer Daniel Lanois for his debut solo album, conjuring up a fashionably atmospheric twist to his ongoing fascination with American culture

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Our favourite restaurants are vanishing, but some memories can be salvaged

Farewell to London’s Le Gavroche, India Club, Banner’s and countless others that have hosted family celebrations down the decades

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Five Great Reads: testing the vagus nerve, Tom Waits in love, triggered by therapy-speak

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

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‘All these bulletproof songs, one after another’: remembering Tom Waits’s extraordinary mid-career trilogy

Forty years on from the magnificent sequence that began with Swordfishtrombones, collaborators and fans including Jim Jarmusch and Thom Yorke discuss Waits’s journey from bar-room balladeer to conductor of a junkyard orchestra

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10 rock stars who missed out on their dream movie roles

David Bowie in The Lord Of The Rings? John Lydon in Quadrophenia? WASP’s Blackie Lawless as The Terminator? These are the Oscar-winning performances that never were

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Mac DeMarco review – an atypical celebration of an atypical album

Moving on from his sad-clown antics with a beguiling set of instrumentals and fan faves, strung together by Tom Waitsy banter, DeMarco is a magnetic performer

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"I think my head exploded" – The Gaslight Anthem showcase duet with Bruce Springsteen on new song History Books

It's the title track from their comeback album

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