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Jumpin Jack Frost's 'Burial' Turns 30: New Documentary Traces Jungle's Roots
Resident Advisor has released a short documentary marking 30 years of Jumpin Jack Frost's jungle anthem 'Burial,' tracing his path from Brixton sound systems to acid house and jungle's cultural legacy.
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Pentaport Rock Festival Returns for 21st Edition Under 'RE:BORN' Theme, Biggest Lineup Yet With 66 Acts
South Korea's Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival is coming back for a 21st edition themed 'RE:BORN,' promising its largest-ever lineup of 66 acts after a rocky 20th-anniversary year in 2025.
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Noel Gallagher Once Called Arcade Fire's Reflektor the Most Pretentious Record of 2013
In a 2013 Rolling Stone interview, Oasis's Noel Gallagher tore into Arcade Fire's double-disc Reflektor — without having heard it — and mocked the tour's dress-up door policy. The quotes are circulating online again.
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Christopher Nolan Says Radiohead's 'OK Computer' Shaped 'Memento'
Director Christopher Nolan has said Radiohead's 1997 album 'OK Computer' was a key influence on the structure of his 2000 film 'Memento,' with its unpredictable listening experience mirroring the film's backwards narrative.
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Stereogum's "The Number Ones" Revisits How Adele's "Easy On Me" Hit No. 1
Stereogum's long-running column "The Number Ones" published a new entry on August 3, 2026 tracing how Adele's 2021 comeback single "Easy On Me" topped the Billboard Hot 100.
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The Jesus and Mary Chain's William Reid: Eddie Van Halen "ruined rock guitar" in the '80s and '90s
The Jesus and Mary Chain guitarist William Reid told Stereogum that Eddie Van Halen's shred-heavy style wrecked rock guitar for two decades, and that Joy Division's Peter Hook wrote far better riffs.
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Stevie Nicks Says Rihanna Was Born to Be in Fleetwood Mac
Stevie Nicks has said Rihanna could have fit right into Fleetwood Mac, citing her Letterman performance of "Shut Up and Drive" and the raw quality of her voice on slower songs.
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Green Day's 1991 European Debut Tour: A Pickled Head Named "Sleepy" in Copenhagen
During their broke, first-ever European tour in 1991, Green Day crashed at a Copenhagen sound engineer's apartment after a gig — and found a preserved human head named "Sleepy" waiting for them.
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What Is a Ballad? Tracing a 700-Year-Old Song Form from 13th-Century France to Olivia Rodrigo
A Far Out Magazine deep-dive traces the ballad from 13th-century French chanson balladée through The Beatles to Olivia Rodrigo's 'Driver's License,' asking why the form still resists a clean definition.
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How The Mars Volta Dragged Prog Rock Into the 21st Century
Far Out Magazine traces how Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala walked away from At the Drive-In's mainstream momentum to build The Mars Volta, whose 2003 debut De-Loused in the Comatorium redefined prog rock with help from Rick Rubin and Flea.
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'Eleki Boom': How The Ventures Became Japan's Favorite American Band
A four-piece instrumental rock band from Tacoma, Washington triggered Japan's electric guitar craze after a 1962 tour — becoming, by some measures, the best-selling American guitar act the country had ever seen.
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Sam Fender & Olivia Dean's 'Rein Me In' Duet Rewrites UK Chart History With 17 Weeks at No. 1
Sam Fender and Olivia Dean's duet version of 'Rein Me In' has spent 17 non-consecutive weeks atop the UK Singles Chart as of July 2026, closing in on a 73-year-old record set by Frankie Laine.
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