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** Paul Weller** was born 50 years ago last Sunday, just outside of Woking in Surrey. The frontman for The Jam, The Style Council and solo recording artist in his own right flew the suburbs in his ...

This latest instalment of the Austin Powers series comes across as somewhere between 'The Naked Gun', 'Blazing Saddles' and Benny Hill. There is much cacophonous laughstrionics to be had if you're the ...

Gertrude's Storm have a lot of excellent elements, but never quite string them together into something flawlessly cool. However, this still makes them a damn sight more intriguing than most ...

1996 – 1999 With hindsight, the early records made under the name Songs: Ohia were Jason Molina’s attempts to find a voice, literally and figuratively. The debut, Songs: Ohia (1996), introduced a ...

Forty years ago this week, Neil Young entered a makeshift studio on Santa Monica Boulevard in a state of deep depression and alcoholism and, in that single session, recorded the majority of the ...

Further Reading: Bedhead – Transaction de Novo When people call slowcore sleepy or boring, they are referring to the aptly named Bedhead, a band who sound like they just woke up and can’t be bothered ...

Other prominent releases include Buffalo Daughter’s debut, Pizzicato Five’s Bossanova 2001, Momus’ The Philosophy of Momus (A Scottish experimental musician who transplanted to Japan in the 90s and ...

Gotye talks us through some of the equipment and instruments he used to record the album Making Mirrors.... "I used to love the exhaustive gear lists that artists like Tomita and Vangelis would put on ...

Today’s the day that Scotland decides whether to become an independent country or stay part of the UK. It’s been a momentous campaign that’s seen impassioned arguments from both the Yes and No ...

His time in Austin was cut short due to aneurysm which left him unable to cope with the oppressive Texan heat so he returned to the UK to live with an old family friend in the mid-nineties in Lewes.

So that’s it for the Olympics. In Hyde Park, we get BT London Live's Hyde Park Closing Ceremony Celebration Concert (ahem) with an incongruously br ...