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“SONGS TO SAVE YOUR LIFE”: MOTOWN

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The godfather of melancholia and wisdom becomes 55 today and as a tribute, here´s many lists written by the man himself compiling his favourite albums, songs and singers of all time.

Beach Boys´mastermind recalls his most fucked up phase during the “Smile” sessions. Extract from Nick Kent´s essential article: “The Last Movie Revisited: the Life Of Brian Wilson” […]

This week we’ve got a two hour expedition into saxophone sprinkled rock, pop and jazz from the smoke filled rooms of America’s music back-catalogue […]

Today´s thirty four years since Ian´s tormented mind, weak body and lyrical genius, left a 23 year-old miserable existence. We all know the legend: After watching Stroszek – a Werner Herzog film – listening to Iggy Pop´s […]

Courtney Love live shows typically feature our heroine saying ‘fuck’ rather a lot, stripping down to her negligee, and then belting out a few rock songs. Yes, I really am that easily pleased. But dirty old blokes seeking out a […]

If you could think in a song that works as a complement of Lou Reed´s Berlin” (1973), there´s no better way to go than Iggy Pop´s reinterpretation of “Only The Lonely” (2012), a song immortalized by Frank Sinatra´s seductive and engaging crooning in 1958, but that in the voice of Iggy Pop boosts in emotion and pain […]

“The ‘godfather of punk’, Iggy Pop returns to 6 Music with even more eclectic and exciting music choices, delving into his personal record collection to give listeners an exclusive insight into the mind of one of the most influential rock stars of the last 40 years. This week he’s dealing with the Complaint Department […]

The contrast between Robert Cray and the thousands of bands that can be heard murdering 12 bar boogies in bars across the planet every night of the year could not be more complete.While the music is technically ‘blues’ in both cases, Cray imparts an […]

In the aftermath of Morrissey´s most difficult year in a 2013 full of illnesses, cancellations, and the lack of a record label (a constant in his career), it seems that Manchester´s melancholic poet´s back in shape […]