By reining in their excesses and lightening up a bit, Arcade Fire regain a lot of charm, says Alexis PetridisIn 1998, Q magazine invited readers to vote for the 100 Best ...
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Postcards From A Young Man to feature Velvet Underground and Echo & The Bunnymen members
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From The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction, and Metallica's Metallica, to Elvis Costello's This Year's Model, Pink F...
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For his Record Club series, Beck gathers friends together to cover an entire album in a day, then posts the results to his website. So far, the Record Club choices have ...
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-- The Quine Tapes is a six-LP live box set that documents the Velvet Underground onstage in 1969. VU super-fan and future Lou Reed guitarist Robert Quine recorded the s...
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The tree that was the Velvet Underground has borne all manner of strange fruit since its inception and Hackamore Brick’s One Kiss Leads To Another, from 1971, may v...
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Is he a genius or a hoaxer with too much time on his hands? Possibly bothHometown: London.The lineup: Ergo Phizmiz (vocals, music).The background: Listening to Ergo Phizm...
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Aloe Blacc’s followup to the small time smash ‘I Need A Dollar’ is a cover of The Velvet Underground’s ‘Femme Fatale’. It’s take...
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The Coney Island Mermaid Parade might be one of the few last vestiges of “old” New York’s theatricality. Which is to say, every year it’s okay to ...
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Artist: Dean & Britta Album: 13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests Release Date: July 27Label: Double FeatureTracklist:Disc 1:01 Silver Factory Them...
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Christina Aguilera's album is disappointingly predictable. Is she just the latest artist to suffer from record label intervention?In his review, Alexis Petridis called Ch...
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OK, that should get me some hits. This song by Marshmallow Staircase is available on their new limited edition LP Terror De Lune. This might not be what you’d exp...
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It's been said that LCD Soundsystem's "Drunk Girls" bears a close melodic resemblance to the Velvet Underground's "White Light/White Heat". You can really hear the connec...
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DAMON ALBARN wants to recruit VELVET UNDERGROUND rocker LOU REED to join him on the Glastonbury stage this summer (10).The Blur frontman is set to headline the famed...
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