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"Though shalt not cover Motorhead" is one of rock's ten alternative commandments: Listen, firstly nobody, sounds like them, despite fifty year's worth of opportunity to do so, and secondly..Lemmy. You can count on the fingers of maybe one and a half hands the number of truly original musicians who've lived into the twenty first century - and the list of those he influenced is way too long to write out here.

It was an unlikely arrangement, which was unpredictably successful and led to a unforeseen lifelong relationship. By 1986 the Cocteau Twins – Elizabeth Fraser, Simon Raymonde and Robin Guthri…

It seems like there's barely a niche left in our culture in which something divisive can't be wedged into; even in the supposedly egalitarian world of club oriented living there are rows about corporate sell outs and genre policing. Not old enough to participate in the utopian British rave scene of the late eighties, on Tremor Daniel Avery has adapted one of it's precepts by opening up his musical consciousness to embrace diversity and open mindedness.

ALT: a man in a tuxedo is playing a guitar in front of an american masters advertisement

There’s a certain sense of futility to declaring a retrospective when your songs have an air of carbon dating; depending on whether you’ve always found Fleet Foxes bro-Folk mesmeric or …

Released: 1976 Tom Petty once said rock n’ roll was the ultimate road trip companion “I think the music is almost designed for America, because to me American music was all about listen…

Released : 1992 Not many artists have the either longevity or luxury of ending up being the counter-culture they help create. R.E.M. arguably did as much as any to shape an alternative path for Ame…

These days we think we’ve got it bad if somebody writes a mean post about us, or the local coffee place has run out of Jamaica Blue. We’d probably be in therapy for decades though if as…

Released : 1992 The decade’s most influential electronic music artist/producer, Richard D. James nineties catalogue is almost unrivaled, from the bristling hardcore techno of him as Polygon W…