Last night, at the last minute, I managed to blag tickets to see Lindisfarne – a band I thought had broken up decades ago.

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Annie Clark, aka St Vincent, teams up with Beck and musician friends to cover the INXS classic Never Tear Us Apart.

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Loser is one of those freak hits that captured the zeitgeist, launched a career and defined an entire music style. And it was all an accident.

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Three years ago today we lost Terry Hall, a songwriting genius who captured today’s world 45 years ago – a dangerous place, teetering on the brink of war.

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Greg Brown, co-founder and lead guitarist of Californian geek-rock legends Cake, has died at the age of only 56.

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Allow me to introduce you to Carlos Alberto Cázares Valenzuela, aka ‘El Solovino’ (The Uninvited). He’s 20 years old, he’s Mexican, and he loves Joy Division.

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Girl Talk is the stage name of Gregg Gillis, a master of mashup music who makes albums entirely out of classic samples. This is from his best album, Night Ripper.

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David Crosby took a break from his CSNY supergroup to launch a solo career in 1971, teaming up with The Grateful Dead and other Bay Area musicians.

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If he had never played another note after 1977, Fred Smith would still have had a place in music history as one quarter of the band who made Marquee Moon – my favourite album of all time.

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Who knew Sinéad O’Connor had covered ABBA?! I mean, probably thousands of people, if not more – but not me. Until now.

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