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20 Great Songs Stripped Down

Musicians have captured something special when they can remove most of the instrumentation and effects from a song, and it still holds up—or becomes even better. Here are 20 of our favorite stripped-down versions of songs (not stripper versions—that would be weird.)...  read more

We'd Like to Buy a Vowel: The Seven Best Band Names Made Entirely of Consonants

Okay, the band names on this list don't have to be made entirely of consonants. We let a couple of numerals sneak in because the artists were just too good to ignore, but we punished the artists for their lack of semantic ingenuity. We drew a hard line and excluded bands like CSS, because they rely on acronyms to make their name. We also excluded bands like Styx, because they suck. ...  read more

XTC's Andy Partridge

"We had a gig in Liverpool the night he was shot… well, the night we heard the news,”....  read more