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Retracing Our Steps (2007–2014) KSCOPE

The Accidental EARMUSIC

Despite falling record sales and changes in the musical landscape, Tyketto stayed true to their style. Now, they’re finding a new audience, and release their first album in a decade.

I’M NOT SURE if it’s the three-inch heels on her Doc Martens, but Emily Green dwarfs me as she strides across the stage. It’s about an hour before her band, Geese, soundchecks for their sold-out show

In 1966, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO brought together the worlds of avant-garde art, European cool and downtown rock’n’roll in one explosive package. Sixty years on, the survivors share tales of drugs, breakdowns, burnouts, blocked toilets and hospital beds – and, of course, the creation of some of the most important music ever made. “We only did things our way,” learns Tom Pinnock . “We were arrogant, perhaps, in thinking we knew best. We were also right. We did know best…”

The great and good of progressive music give us a glimpse into their prog worlds. As told to Grant Moon.