Music Features
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Lou Reed: A Life In Music (Part Two)
We pick up the story with Metal Machine Music and follow Lou Reed's career through the 1980s.
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Lou Reed: A Life In Music (Part One)
Over the coming week, in tribute to the great man, we will be celebrating Lou Reed’s extensive back catalogue.
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Gary Numan: Live at The Masonic Lodge
The British electro-rock pioneer plays a stirring set of metallic-tinged industrial at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, which suits the darker demeanor found in his latest release Splinter (Songs from a Broken Mind).
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez puts on some eyeliner... -
The Lonesome Death of Lou Reed
I'm writing this obituary while Street Hassle is playing...Baaaaaaaad idea
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No Ripcast: Volume 21
In podcast number 21, we discuss music festivals, Death Waltz Recording Co., and listen to new music from the Dodos and September Girls.
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Joe Blogs #7: Berry The Hatchet
Dave Berry lists the albums he thinks every man should own and the internet goes into sarcasm overdrive. Just what is everybody's problem?
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Wooden Arms (interview)
As they prepare to play the fourth, annual Norwich Sound & Vision festival, locals Wooden Arms talk to Carlos Dávalos about their music, their inspirations and making CDs out of wood.
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Mark Lewisohn's Beatles (Interview)
I consume his wonderful new biography in one massive gulp and talk to the man on a mission to tell the story that has been waiting to be told.
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Bestival 2013 - Review
Last month, Bestival celebrated its tenth anniversary with headline performances from Fatboy Slim, Snoop Dogg and Elton John. Here, Craig Stevens shares his experiences of HMS Bestival 2013 and some of the musical highlights that came with it.
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Waiting For The Light Of Day: An Interview With Bill Callahan
Following the release of his seventeenth record, Dream River, prolific singer-songwriter Bill Callahan was kind enough to speak with No Ripcord's Andrew Ciraulo about writing and recording, the muse in his music, and most importantly, beer.
Andrew Ciraulo has never been fond of Guinness either...
