A selection of Van Morrison songs that have meaning to me and have stuck with me through the years, appearing frequently on mix tapes and playlists. Not necessarily stuff you’ll find on his Greatest Hits collection.

The classic X lineup has released Alphabetland, their first album of new studio material in thirty-five years.

Iggy Pop will release reissues of The Idiot and Lust for Life as 2xCD sets that include live material as well as a 7xCD set entitled The Bowie Years that includes those two albums as well as a reissue of TV Eye, a live set recorded in 1977 on tour with David Bowie on keyboards. There is also a disc of rarities and outtakes and three additional live shows from the 1977 tour. 

This article takes a closer look at The Idiot, the first of Bowie & Iggy’s ‘Berlin cycle’ of albums to be recorded…

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by Marshall Bowden

If someone puts a record on in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?

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