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How rave music conquered America
After 20 years, electronic dance music has made it big in the US. And big means big.
With Las Vegas’s Electric Daisy Carnival grossing $40m, and DJ Skrillex commanding
rock-star fees, the scene is leaving its druggy underground roots behind and being
reborn as bombastic super-spectaclePosted on October 25, 2012 with 1 note
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It's just pure noise for the hell of it
To celebrate My Bloody Valentine reissuing their classic albums Isn’t Anything and Loveless, the Guardian revisit Rock’s Backpages – the world’s leading archive of vintage music journalism – for this interview with the band for Vox magazine by Stephen Dalton from April 1992Posted on September 3, 2012 with 1 note
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Rakim: 'We Need a Few More Kanyes'
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Gorillaz, heroin and the last days of Blur
Do Blur have a future? Are Gorillaz gone for good? Is his feud with Noel Gallagher really over? The heroin issue… Damon Albarn answers some tricky questions.Posted on May 4, 2012 with 1 note
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Hype Williams: do they ever speak the truth?
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Joey Barton: a man of two halves
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Plan B: ‘Find out what kids are good at. It will change their lives’Posted on April 17, 2012 with 1 note
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People say you make your best work when in despair – but I think happiness is a good place to write from
For many people of a certain age, the former Jam frontman is a quasi-religious icon. But has he only just made the album he always wanted to?
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Gang Colours himself discussing his album ‘The Keychain Collection’, the inspiration behind it and how he got into production.Posted on April 10, 2012 with 1 note
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'I get withdrawal symptoms if I've not created something for a few days'
The artist formerly known as the Streets on life after rap, the surprise of his rapid rise to fame and why years of sustained drug-taking were really great funSource:
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How indie labels changed the world
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Graham Coxon: 'It's not 1975. It's a confusing world'
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Air: back on moon safari
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There’s a wonderful meritocracy with B-sides. Bad ones are quietly ignored while good ones get promoted.
In the days of vinyl, DJs sometimes overruled record labels and started playing the flipsides instead: Rock Around the Clock, Unchained Melody, I Will Survive, Maggie May, How Soon Is Now? and Born Slippy all started out as bridesmaids.
…the fate of the B-side highlights the quandary of digital plenty.
The price you pay for infinite choice is one of the advantages of limited choice: those serendipitous discoveries you could make just by turning over the disc.
Dorian Lynskey, The buried treasure of Pet Shop Boys’ B-sidesSource:
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Love, Belle and Sebastian-style
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