From The Vault Archives: 03/2022

Sonic Youth teach you how to make the perfect tuna tacos

How LL Cool J influenced a classic Sonic Youth song

Sonic Youth send up LL Cool J.

Mar 9, 2022

Watch Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir join Sammy Hagar for Led Zeppelin cover

Weir joins Hagar to cover Zeppelin.

Mar 9, 2022

Hear Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl’s isolated joint vocals on Nirvana’s ‘In Bloom’

All our pretty songs…

Mar 9, 2022

Johnny Cash

How did Johnny Cash become the first American to learn of Joseph Stalin’s death?

A historic moment.

Mar 9, 2022

Joe Strummer Bob Marley

The Clash song that inspired one of Bob Marley’s hits

Inspiration behind a reggae anthem.

Mar 9, 2022

John Lennon’s first “complete song” for The Beatles

“You’re getting better now…”

Mar 9, 2022

Listen to Robert Smith’s remixes of Ride’s ‘Vapour Trail’

A remixed shoegaze anthem.

Mar 9, 2022

Sam Fender’s favourite Bruce Springsteen song

The inspiration behind a modern rock icon.

Mar 9, 2022

Jeff Buckley John Cale

How Jeff Buckley stole John Cale’s version of ‘Hallelujah’

Genius or thief?

Mar 9, 2022

Listen to remarkable live audio of shoegaze pioneers Spacemen 3 performing 'Walking with Jesus'

Watch footage of Spacemen 3 on their first European tour

Early live footage of a formative cult band.

Mar 9, 2022

Watch a mischievous Patti Smith play the clarinet during an interview, 1979

The classic heavy metal song inspired by Patti Smith

Surreal.

Mar 9, 2022

‘The Joshua Tree’: U2’s soulful, searching dissertation on America

It might be their best work.

Mar 9, 2022