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• Yardbirds Question Time

  by Keith Altham•April 30, 2008•Comments (3)

  The Yardbirds were in no mood for pulling punches when I called on them in their dressing room at the Ready, Steady, Go! studios in Wembley Park. Keith Relf expressed the desire that they should be "the first group to tell the truth" and that he was tired of "watered down interviews which said nothing." (read more)

• Down in the Scuzz With the Heavy Cult Figures

  by Charles Shaar Murray•April 16, 2008•Comments (0)

  Originally published in NME, 7 June 1975 CBGB is a toilet. An impossibly scuzzy little club buried somewhere in the section of the Village that the cab-drivers don't like to drive through. (read more)

• Opening Pandora Wider

  by Max Mobley•April 9, 2008•Comments (0)

  Poke around pandora.com and you’ll soon realize the site includes musicianship as an aspect of the music appreciation that is its focus. Given 54 percent of all US households have at least one active musician (according to NAMM, the International Music Products Association) (read more)

• Like a Circle in a Spiral, Like a Song Within a Song

  by Denise Sullivan•April 9, 2008•Comments (2)

  You're listening to a brand new song, and yet, you feel like you've heard those words somewhere before. Or maybe you recognize familiar song titles popping out in an otherwise original song. Or, you're simply listening, you like what you hear, and you don't even realize (read more)

• The Year Of The Smiths

  by Barney Hoskyns•April 2, 2008•Comments (1)

  Gay men paved pop’s way this year. With Boy George’s wardrobe fully open, all the closet cases came spilling forth: Burns and the Bronskis, Frankie and NRG. The subtlest victory was Morrissey’s—his the least fairy-tale, the least gaudily exhibitionist. (read more)

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