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10 Jan 2012:
Chuck Rowell and Hollie Cook's synth-pop noir is inspired by San Diego's seedy side – with a dollop of David Lynch
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10 Jan 2012:
Michael Cragg: Electronic music miserablist Jamie Stewart returns with one of the happiest sad songs in recent memory
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10 Jan 2012:
Russell Cunningham: When Australians went in search of a new national anthem in the 70s, they could have done worse than this
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10 Jan 2012: Radiohead have just been announced as one of the headliners at this year's Coachella festival in California. Here, in our latest visit to Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage rock journalism – Clare Kleinedler describes meeting the band when they were on the cusp of fame in May 1996
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10 Jan 2012: Guitarist reveals he has early stage lymphoma but intends to proceed with band's long-awaited comeback
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10 Jan 2012:
Nell Frizzell: So what if the singer simulates masturbation in her new video, You Da One? The boys in pop have been doing this for years
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10 Jan 2012: Love Is the Cure, due in July, will include reminiscences about Freddie Mercury and teenage activist Ryan White
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9 Jan 2012:
Originally published in the Observer on 10 January 1965: George Melly joins the paper as its first pop music critic and here surveys his subject's social and cultural worth
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9 Jan 2012:
Before their pursuit of world domination turned them rubbish, Simple Minds were capable of transcendent beauty – as this 1982 track attests
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8 Jan 2012: Sam Leith: Being the kind of person more inclined to pick songs for my funeral, coming up with one for my wedding is proving tricky
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8 Jan 2012:
Cymbals Eat Guitar hovered on the edge of pretentiousness, but support act Milagres could be something special, writes Dave Simpson
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8 Jan 2012: Lead guitarist with Fleetwood Mac in the early 1970s
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