The Story Behind The Song: Cat Power’s ‘The Greatest’
Inspired more by Cassius Clay than Muhammad Ali…
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924 Gilman St: The CBGBs of the West Coast
First rule of the underground: don’t fraternise with the surface dwellers.
‘Mr Garfield’: the Johnny Cash song that tells the same story as a new hit Netflix series ‘Death By Lightning’
From a 1965 album of ‘True West’ ballads…
How did Ray Charles feel about the rise of rap music?
“Stuff that I could do when I was nine years old…”
The surprising Velvet Underground song Johnny Marr called “simple and perfect”
A fairly obscure nugget from a legendary band.
The first bands MGMT fell in love with: “Incredible”
What once seemed uncool may yet be cool again, or always was.
The story of how Neil Young saved Pearl Jam from imploding: “It’s just music”
“It couldn’t have come at a better time for us…”
The rock legend credited with “barnyard noises” on a classic Tom Petty song
He was once rumoured to be joining the Traveling Wilburys.