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marianne faithfull

Broken Englishwoman: The Ballad Of Marianne Faithfull

Posted Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:11pm PST
Once the fallen angel of British pop, Marianne Faithfull the survivor is set to release her new album Easy Come, Easy Go. 30 years ago she declared her rock genius with the astounding Broken English. ZigZag's Kris Needs was on hand to ask her about i More »
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the specials

The Rock's Backpages Flashback: The Specials Arrive In NYC

Posted Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:41pm PST
Coventry's original Rude Boys the Specials--minus mainman Jerry Dammers--have reformed for a UK spring tour that sold out in hours. When they came to the US for the first time 29 years ago, New York Rocker editor Andy Schwartz filed this report on th More »
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robert plant

Stairway To Snowdonia: Robert Plant Goes Back To His Welsh Roots

Posted Thu Feb 12, 2009 5:50pm PST
Robert Plant's Grammy triumph prompts us to dig out this recent encounter with the Zeppelin legend--a magical day in Wales that included a tourist stop at the famous Bron-y-Aur cottage where Plant and Jimmy Page gave birth to Zep's folk-infused third More »
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roky

Psychedelic Punks Refuse To Die: The Revenge Of The 13th Floor Elevators

Posted Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:42pm PST
Roky Erickson's 13th Floor Elevators were the most crazed, out-there psych band of all time. To salute the new 10-disc box Sign Of The 3-Eyed Men, we present this 1972 encomium to the band from post-gonzo renegade Mike Saunders. More »
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sid n nancy

The RBP Flashback: An Evening With Sid Vicious And Nancy Spungen

Posted Fri Feb 6, 2009 4:28pm PST
It's three decades since Sid Vicious, the cartoon überpunk to end all überpunks, died of a heroin overdose following the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. A year earlier, NME's Chris Salewicz had met the couple in an interview used in the pun More »
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lux

From Hell To Eternity: In Memoriam Lux Interior

Posted Thu Feb 5, 2009 11:28am PST
The Cramps' Lux Interior would have scoffed at the whole notion of resting in peace. But even if the man born Erick Purkhiser doesn't return to walk among us as a zombie, we'll sorely miss his Z-movie voodoobilly trash aesthetic--and we offer our dee More »
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buddy holly

The Rocker Next Door: Buddy Holly

Posted Wed Feb 4, 2009 10:35am PST
Coming after Elvis, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly was an improbable rock and roll star--a bespectacled geek who could have been Clark Kent before metamorphosing into Superman. Here, Mick Farren explains exactly why the Texan who di More »
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