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The Coolest Beatles Songs You Might Have Missed, Vol. 5

Today's list is the fifth installment in a series that will run every Friday for the next few weeks, in which I'll highlight my favorite lesser-known Beatles tracks.John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr wrote and recorded such consistently amazing songs that, even if you ignore all their #1 hits and everything on their famous Red and Blue best-of compilations (which I've been doing for these more obscure Beatles lists), there are still dozens and dozens of amazing songs, some of which you might've missed along the way—even if The Beatles are the biggest, most influential band in...  read more

Sex Pistols create new songs for UK festival

The Sex Pistols have been crafting new tracks for the upcoming Isle of Wight festival. Other artists scheduled to perform at the three-day event include The Police, Kaiser Chiefs and Kate Nash. “There's talk of new material,” drummer Paul Cook said in a recent statement. “The only problem is that it's a bit hard to work on anything as John (Lydon) and Steve (Jones) are in America and Glen (Matlock) and I are in the U.K., so it's a case of finding the time to get together.” Although the songs will be their first new offerings in 30 years, the...  read more

Sex Pistols release digital Bollocks

By this time, NME, Slash and others hoped that the Sex Pistols-reissued "God Save the Queen" single would have hit No. 1 on the UK Singles chart, to "right the wrong" of "the authorities" denying the brash ditty a top spot thirty years ago. The absolute meaninglessness of this not-bloody-likely victory has already been noted, but it must be added that the group to usurp is the Sugababes trio -- a group that's had more top 10 hits than the Spice Girls, Destiny's Child or Bananarama. Looks like the authorities would have to step back in and outlaw bootylicious for...  read more