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Siren (Half Speed Master Vinyl Reissue)

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By 1975, a thin white David Bowie was busy crooning plastic soul tunes to young Americans, Marc Bolan had since vanished behind the cutout of Zinc Alloy, Iggy Pop was spiraling into a manic dope haze (but not before having recorded Raw Power, his finest album), and Lou Reed was busy pissing the world off with Metal Machine Music.  » Read More

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Roxy Music – Reflecting on the 50th Anniversary of “Roxy Music”

A seminal year in glam, 1972 yielded the releases of David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, T. Rex’s The Slider, and Lou Reed’s Transformer, each record advancing the evolving sound of rock and steering youth culture away from the earthy optimism of the previous decade, ushering in an era in which popular culture’s eschatology was dictated by sexuality,  » Read More

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