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JOHNNY MARR CELEBRATES HIS FIRST DECADE AS A
From Cheshire village halls to LA Babylon, he’s the obsessive music fan who rode the Hammond grooves of The Charlatans through baggy, Britpop and beyond . But how has his band remained together through 37 years of chaos and tragedy as well as triumph? “We had to get used to heaviness,” says Tim Burgess .
Wilco dynamo’s fifth solo LP is a wildly eclectic triple that celebrates collective creativity and freedom.
A few years ago, Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr were interviewed for a BBC documentary about music’s messiest break-ups. Which may seem like an odd booking, given the pair’s famously adamantine bond. B
FORTUNE HASN’T JUST been smiling on blues rocker Samantha Fish lately — it’s been sending her long-stemmed roses and leaving love notes on her windshield. The Missouri-born guitarist/vocalist grabbed
Released on 7 August 1995, It’s Great When You’re Straight... Yeah was, in Shaun Ryder’s words, his great “fuck you” album after the dissolution of Happy Mondays. Still battling drug problems, and wit
D uring the first half of the 80s, OMD were a regular presence in the upper reaches of the UK charts. Enola Gay, Souvenir, Joan Of Arc and Maid Of Orleans (The Waltz Joan Of Arc) made the Top 10, whil