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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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I felt very sad on hearing the news that Davy Jones of The Monkees had died yesterday of a heart attack aged just 66. I loved the music of the Monkees but equally it reminded of my happy childhood.
As a very young child I remember watching Saturday night TV when visiting my Gran.  The Monkees [...]

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Madonna’s well oiled publicity machine goes into action again, as a demo of her new single Give Me All Your Love was leaked onto the internet on November 8th. Unfortunately we are unable to show it here as it’s now been blocked but we thought we’d treat you do an old classic instead.

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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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Signed to Kitchenware Records in 1982, Newcastle’s Hurrah!, along with the Paisley Underground movement of California, were a prime influence on the hugely successful Creation Records.
“Hurrah! were like a perfect punk rock fantasy Byrds… what we all wished we were. Great songs, great shows, supreme überpunk attitude… we just loved them.” – Alan McGee, 2011
With [...]

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