The b-52s

Rather gear collection of punky outsider artists’ BBC work recorded between 1978 and 1980.

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The newly reconfigured band throw open the doors on an expansive sixth album. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Quinton Winter.

WE WERE THE first band of our generation that started to grow up,” Billy Corgan says, reflecting on the making of the Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 grand opus, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. “The b

Strawbs lodestar and constant Dave Cousins left us on July 13.

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