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‘I got a nosebleed in minutes!’ How the Wedding Present’s indie banger classics inspired a musical

They lit up the 80s and 90s with abrasive tracks that were like kitchen-sink dramas. But can the Wedding Present’s acerbic songs work on stage? We meet the team making it happen – and the ‘rock god’ who penned the hits

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‘The army were on the streets – and we were bored’: Stiff Little Fingers on making Alternative Ulster

‘There wasn’t time to sit down and discuss politics and the future of the world, or your aims and aspirations. You just did stuff’

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Sir Michael Palin gets musical memories from John Peel

Sir Michael Palin learned about music from late DJ John Peel, who used to blast out his records when they were at school together.

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Thin Lizzy's long-lost 1971 BBC session has surfaced online

Listen to four songs recorded for John Peel in 1971, taken from a newly discovered off-air reel-to-reel tape

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3 Legged Thing Annie Professional Studio Microphone Arm review: let your voice be heard

Forget lights, camera, action – the 3 Legged Thing Annie is all about the power of the spoken word, and recording it to best effect

Digital Camera World

Tom Ravenscroft: ‘I always wanted a shell suit, but my mum wouldn’t let me have one’

The radio DJ talks about missing grungy old music festivals, doing all the cleaning at home, and being brought up without ambition by his dad, John Peel

The Guardian - UK

“Almost overnight after the Sex Pistols, prog rock came to a halt”: 1977 was the supposedly the year punk killed prog. The truth is very different

Exploding the myth that progressive rock’s ‘dinosaurs’were finished off by punk

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Johnnie Walker obituary

Former pirate radio disc jockey who went to Radio 1 and later became a stalwart of Radio 2

The Guardian - UK

"We look so young. We were so young": Brian May's guide to rarely-seen Queen photos, from before they were famous

Sir Brian May talks us through a series of previously unseen photographs from Queen's early days as featured in the new Queen I Collector’s Edition

Louder

Meet Annie, Steve and John, 3 Legged Thing's mic arms for content creators, YouTubers, TikTokers and podcasters

Legendary British Radio 1 DJs Annie Nightingale, Steve Wright and John Peel namechecked in honor of 3LT's new range of microphone arms for wannabe broadcasters

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Joan Armatrading: ‘I love the Beano – in fact, I was in it, having a slap-up meal’

The singer-songwriter answers your questions on the bank robber that inspired her, playing with Bob Dylan and Clarke Peters, and her love of classic comics

The Guardian - UK

"I love Blackberry Smoke. They're the Status Quo of country": This is the soundtrack of legendary broadcaster Bob Harris's life

Old Grey Whistle Test legend 'Whispering' Bob Harris picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance

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Martin Phillipps obituary

Singer and songwriter whose band, the Chills, were pioneers of the melodic, offbeat lo-fi rock known as the Dunedin sound

The Guardian - UK

When is Dua Lipa performing on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury and how to watch

Pop singer has said she wants to make her audience at the Pyramid Stage feel like they’re in ‘a small little nightclub’

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Mansour Seck obituary

Senegalese musician in the ‘griot’ tradition, best known for his long-term collaboration with Baaba Maal

Louder

“An impressive set documenting a group during a clamorous creative peak”: Edgar Broughton Band’s Gone Blue – The BBC Sessions

Four-CD collection covers the period 1967-73, including 32 unreleased tracks

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"I always think this is the closest anyone has ever come to making the perfect record": The story of The Undertones' punk classic Teenage Kicks

Guitarist and songwriter John O’Neill on how a young band from Derry created a classic: "I can’t believe someone didn’t come up with it before me"

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"Roy Thomas Baker would organise food fights and set fire to the mixing desk": How Bill Nelson built up then broke up Be-Bop Deluxe

Bill Nelson on Jimi Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the brilliant five-album career of art-rockers Be-Bop Deluxe

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Duane Eddy’s twang remains one of rock’n’roll’s greatest sounds

The late guitarist was rightly ubiquitous in the late 1950s thanks to his otherworldly sound, earning admirers from Bruce Springsteen to John Peel

The Guardian - UK

Station to station: the European language DJs taking radio to new realms

Cian Ó Cíobháin’s show, ‘one of the most radical in the world’, has been beguiling listeners in Irish for 25 years. Others, from Warsaw to Lyon, offer similar musical adventures

Metal Hammer

“Grindcore really resonated with Americans. Our bands were being noticed before they’d even gone over there”: the ear-splitting history of Earache Records, the label that changed metal

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"All of a sudden we play at blinding speed and unbearable intensity, and everyone starts to take notice and stand up": How King Crimson got started

Recorded in just 10 days in 1969, King Crimson’s iconic In The Court Of The Crimson King has been called “the true point at which progressive rock was born”. We look at the making of a landmark album

Louder

“I don’t know that much about folk music, except that most of it bores me to tears”: the incredible life of Michael Chapman, the greatest singer-songwriter the world never knew about

The life and times of Michael Chapman, the cult singer and guitarist beloved of David Bowie, Elton John and Sonic Youth

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How Laurie Anderson made the experimental classic O Superman: "The lyrics are a one-sided conversation, like a prayer to God. I wanted it to be like a Greek chorus – not just one voice – so I used a vocoder"

As the unlikely 1981 hit goes viral on TikTok, we tell the story of Laurie Anderson's strangely compelling masterpiece

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"When we had to do children’s TV with Craig Charles, it was very bizarre." Shane Embury, longest-serving member of legendary grindcore innovators Napalm Death, has a book out, and it's unlike any other you'll read this year

We delve inside Shane Embury's fascinating new autobiography with the man himself

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