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The Kinks' Dave Davies: The 11 blues songs that changed my life

Erstwhile Kinks guitarist and power-chord pioneer Dave Davies recalls the vinyl discoveries that set him on his lifelong rock’n’roll journey

More than 30 years after Shotgun Messiah’s final shot, Zinny J Zan and Harry Cody are back

Zan/Cody's album Beautiful 'N Damned was recorded before the pair met in the flesh for the first time in over three decades

From petty crime and prison to folk legend: Nine Roy Harper albums to listen to and one to avoid

Led Zeppelin wrote a song about him, Pink Floyd invited him to sing on another, but this is the very best of Roy Harper's own recorded work

Why Placebo stopped spilling "blood and spunk" across the planet, and grew up

Currently celebrating their 30th anniversary, Placebo are one of the UK's best-loved cult bands. Back in 2000, frontman Brian Molko told us that he wanted his band to be "legendary" but also to "mess with people's heads"

How Pearl Jam's intense, combative second album Vs. saved the band's soul

Released on October 11, 1993 in the UK and on October 19, '93 in the US, Pearl's Jam's Vs. is the sound of a band lashing out at everything