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Despite earning critical acclaim and a sizable cult fanbase, commercial success eluded Stereolab.
Simon Reynolds commented in Rolling Stone that the group’s earlier records form “an endlessly seductive body of work that sounds always the same, always different.”
While much of the music press were banging on and on about Blur & Oasis and making up a [...]

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Family and friends including Mark Ronson and Kelly Osborne attended the funeral of Amy Winehouse at Edgwarebury Cemetery in north London today.
Amy Winehouse was just 27-years-old when she was found dead at her home in Camden, north London, last Saturday.  The cause of death will not be known for up to four weeks as police [...]

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Roxy Music was responsible for producing some of the finest music of the 1970’s.  They began a long and illustrious career in 1970 when lead singer and songwriter Bryan Ferry formed an art rock group.
Their self-titled debut album and subsequent debut single, Virginia Plain, catapulted the band into the limelight and with it global commercial [...]

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This ode to the legendary England and Middlesex cricketer Fred Titmus was written, recorded and performed by the brilliant Half Man Half Biscuit.
This is a live version of the song from Glasgow 1986.
Fred Titmus R.I.P
Half Man Half Biscuit – Fuckin’ ‘Ell It’s Fred Titmus

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I never imagined that the reunion of Carl Barat and Pete Doherty fronting the Libertines would be this good, having almost forgotten just what an excellent band they had promised to be before their personal problems led to the band disbanding.
Here they are performing the top track What A Waster at Reading/Leeds festival in 2010.
You [...]

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