By one of those funny coincidences, on the day Alex Chilton died I’d been listening to Big Star – arguably one of the most...
Category: Loops
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It’s a Sad and Beautiful World
I remember the first time I heard Sparklehorse. The track was Saturday, and there was something in it I needed to hear. I was...
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Nicky Wire comes to Faber
From the Faber blog, The Thought Fox: Faber is thrilled to announce the acquisition of two titles by the Manic Street Preachers’ bassist and...
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An Exclusive Audio Story from Willy Vlautin
A Motorcycle for a Horse is a brand new story from acclaimed author and Richmond Fontaine frontman Willy Vlautin. Willy himself reads the story,...
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So Much to Answer For
Post Punk Urbanism in Manchester Another Council Tenancy The Los Angeles-based property developer John Lydon recently opined that he’d seen what a failure socialism...
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Cramps Confidential 1976
Girl Drummer Bares Some but Not All Erick Purkhiser, better known as Cramps leader Lux Interior, died on 4 February 2009. Long ago, and...
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Gigolos Get Lonely Too
Prince: His Protégées, Side-projects and Their Influence (Part One 1978–84) There are four main strands to Prince’s music – first, the official releases from...
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An Awfully Big Adventure
Michael Jackson in the Afterlife One Michael Jackson died in June 2009 from high levels of drugs in his body, including the powerful anaesthetic...
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Up Cedar Hill
The most interesting person I knew when I was seven was my dad. He could get the paper flat and symmetrical on the Mad...
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Fast
Napalm Death and the Possibility of Life’s Destruction It was a big day for Napalm Death. John Peel’s producer, John Walters, had called drummer...
