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"I think everyone has some sort of death wish... but I don't want to die": The spectacular rise and tragic fall of Paul Kossoff

Paul Kossoff should have been one of rock and blues' great guitar heroes. Instead, the light of the Free and Back Street Crawler guitarist shone briefly – and burned out quickly

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“We were challenging ourselves on this record and thought, ‘This might not work, but we’re going to find out!’” The story behind every song on Thrice’s The Artist In The Ambulance, in the band’s own words

Everything from the Cold War to C.S. Lewis shaped Thrice’s post-hardcore masterpiece, frontman Dustin Kensrue explains

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“It was a no-brainer to get Jeff Porcaro from Toto to produce. He’d played on more hit records than anybody I knew”: how cult melodic rockers The Strand made the greatest AOR debut album you’ve never heard

What links Toto and Steve Irwin: Crocodile Hunter? Cult US rockers The Strand

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‘Bowie’s teeth were bleeding’: Mott the Hoople on making All the Young Dudes with David

‘We went for a pizza after it came out, with Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust jumpsuit. He was suffering from malnutrition. Starman came on and he said, “Your song will be on soon”’

The Guardian - UK

Cut out the middlemouse: how Disney pop stars took control of their careers

With Disney-championed stars including Olivia Rodrigo and Sabrina Carpenter moving on from the company’s own record label, it seems the house of mouse’s power is waning

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‘He tells you it’s all right to be miserable’: why Nick Drake enchants every new generation

Almost 50 years after his death, an official biography and a forthcoming album of artists reinterpreting his songs are to be celebrated – as is the fact that he still remains an enigma

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The trailblazing story of Sparks: "What we’re doing is making music that we can’t hear anywhere else"

Since their dramatic arrival in the UK via TV screens in the early 70s, Sparks have continued to make extraordinary music on their own terms. Now they’re enjoying a late-career renaissance

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"The Nice and ELP are, for me, where things went too far. Very good musicians don’t interest me. Proficiency blocks you off from real adventure": John Foxx on prog, punk and the problems of being a pioneer

For 50 years, John Foxx has been making genuinely progressive music that defies categorisation. "My plan was always to make every record different from the last,” he says.

Louder

Every Pulp album ranked from worst to best

Jarvis Cocker and co. are national treasures, but which album is their crowning glory?

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Procol Harum: The epic story of A Whiter Shade Of Pale

More than half a century ago Procol Harum recorded the unlikeliest, best-selling, most bitterly-contested drug anthem of all time

Louder

Sparks on new album, fame: It snowballed

The brothers discuss "The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte," impact of Edgar Wright's documentary & latest movie musical

Salon

Portrait: Sue's other half

One of the great Māori-Pākehā love stories

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Kidjo, Blackwell, Pärt awarded Sweden's Polar Music Prize

Singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo, Island Records founder Chris Blackwell and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt have won the 2023 Polar Music Prize, a Swedish music award

The Independent UK

New age Edinburgh tattoo studio with former chef artist shakes up industry

The Island in Leith is a situated at the Shore and is a one-of-a-kind studio that is made up of a mixture of resident artists who have all come from extremely different backgrounds to put their own spin on the modern art form.

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Contort yourself! The mutant disco mayhem of New York’s Ze Records

Disgusted with Britain’s ‘cruel’ aristocracy, Michael Zilkha left to champion a generation of party-starting punk-funk bands. As he returns as a book publisher, he remembers that wild scene

The Guardian - UK

‘They felt like a possible future’: how Brian Eno and I recorded Television’s first demos

In search of the new, Richard Williams – then an A&R man at Island Records – captured early Television in an office block salsa studio. But Tom Verlaine wasn’t impressed

Benzinga

4Front Ventures: Q3 Revenue Increases 14% Sequentially To $32.5M

4Front Ventures Corp. (CSE: FFNT) (OTCQX: FFNTF) announced its financial results for the third quarter that ended September 30, 2022 ("Q3 2022").

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Angus ‘Drummie Zeb’ Gaye obituary

Drummer, singer-songwriter and founding member of the pioneering British reggae group Aswad

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The Islander by Chris Blackwell review – maverick who brought Bob Marley to the masses

This compelling autobiography charts the rise of the Island Records founder who became as much of a legend as the acts he championed

Benzinga

4Front Ventures Makes Several Key Senior Leadership Changes

4Front Ventures Corp. (OTCQX: FFNTF) (CSE: FFNT), a vertically integrated, multi-state cannabis operator and retailer, revealed several key leadership appointments, including a new CFO, executive vice p

Benzinga

4Front Ventures Reports Q1 2022 Financial Results, Declines 8% Sequentially To $26.1M, CEO Optimistic

4Front Ventures Corp (OTC: FFNTF) , a vertically integrated, multi-state cannabis operator and retailer, announced its financial results for the first quarter ended Marc

Benzinga

EXCLUSIVE: 4Front Ventures Buys California Producer Of Cannabis Pre-Rolls & Flower

Cannabis retailer 4Front Ventures Corp. (CSE: FFNT) (OTCQX: FFNTF) has closed the purchase of Island Global Holdings, Inc., a California-based producer of pre-rolls, flower and concentrate products. The terms of the deal, previously announced in March, remained undisclosed.

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4Front Ventures Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Financial Results and Provides Business Update

4Front Ventures Corp. (CSE: FFNT) (OTCQX: FFNTF), a vertically integrated, multi-state cannabis operator and retailer, announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2021. Q4 2021 Highlights

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3 Gold Miners to Buy With Raging Inflation, Geopolitical Tensions

Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Nomad Royalty (NSR), and Alamos Gold (AGI) don't have a ton in common, with the former being a mid-cap royalty company, the second one being a small-cap royalty company, and the latter being a diversified gold producer. However, these three companies do all share one key…

The Guardian - UK

The Island review – this nautical panel show is so laugh-free it’s a wreck

Four comedians spend an hour sitting around a table, imagining they’re on a cruise ship that has run aground. How is this going to stretch to five episodes?

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