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15 Essential Albums Turning 30 in 2026: A Look Back at 1996
Music account sound___and___vision has published its latest anniversary-album roundup, naming 1996 as a transitional year between grunge/Britpop and cyberpunk aesthetics — with the Trainspotting soundtrack, DJ Shadow and Beck among the highlights.
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Why Is Vinyl Black? The Shellac, Carbon Black and PVC Story
Far Out Magazine traces vinyl's default black color back to shellac-era carbon black additives, not the PVC used today — and finds the popular 'static dust' explanation doesn't hold up.
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How a £5,000 Loan and a Reversed Bassline Created Eurythmics' Biggest Hit
According to Far Out Magazine, Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart bought a Roland SH-101, an Oberheim OB-X and a prototype drum machine on a £5,000 bank loan before writing 'Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),' now streamed over 2 billion times.
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Lindsey Buckingham on Fleetwood Mac's Real Influence: Not Motown, But Leiber and Stoller
Far Out Magazine traces what shaped Lindsey Buckingham's songwriting for Fleetwood Mac — and he points not to Motown stars but to the writing-production duo Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
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The Jucy Book Rave: Tokyo's Nightclub Reading Parties
A new nightlife format in Tokyo turns clubs into quiet reading rooms — dim lights, hushed ambient DJ sets, and nothing but books. First shared on Instagram by afterismm.
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Rolling Stone India Pokes Fun at the Festival Lineup Guessing Game
Rolling Stone India's Instagram post breaks down the ritual that plays out before every festival lineup drops: promoters teasing 'enormous' bills, fan pages inventing rosters, and prediction accounts crowned as prophets the moment they guess right.
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Wilco's 'Jesus, Etc.' Finds a Second Life as a TikTok Dance Trend
A Wilco deep cut from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is suddenly everywhere on TikTok, powered by a user-created dance rather than any label push. Uproxx rounded up the accounts driving the trend.
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Balkan Ghost Airfields: Cold War Bunkers and the Ruins of Yugoslavia
Far Out Magazine surveys abandoned airfields across the former Yugoslavia, from the mountain-hidden underground base at Zeljava to Albania's Gjader and the NATO-bombed runways of Ponikve.
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Why Jim Morrison Told the World His Parents Were Dead
Far Out Magazine revisits The Doors frontman Jim Morrison's long-running claim that his parents and brother had died — a story Elektra Records printed as fact in 1967, two years before he admitted it was invented.
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Thom Yorke Looked Into Copying Bowie's Rail Tour for Sustainability — Called It 'Completely Impossible'
Radiohead's Thom Yorke says he studied David Bowie's train-based 1976 tour while thinking about lowering the environmental cost of touring, but concluded it can't be replicated today. Far Out Magazine notes Yorke conflated two different Bowie trips.
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Skopje 2014: A City That Built Its Own History
North Macedonia's capital is lined with marble colonnades, triumphal arches and a statue of Alexander the Great — nearly all of it built after 2010 under a controversial urban makeover called Skopje 2014.
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Is 'Barricade Culture' Breaking Live Music? A UK Magazine Investigates
Far Out Magazine examines the rise of 'getting barricade' — fans camping for days, skipping food and bathroom breaks to hold front-row spots — and asks who gets left out.
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