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A look at the music of the March on Washington, including footage of the performances: http://nyr.kr/16QYYcL

Photograph by Rowland Scherman/Getty.

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Famous album covers without deceased band members.

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Debbie Harry by Andy Warhol

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Released on July 21st, 1987, Appetite for Destruction went on to sell well over 15 million copies in this country alone, becoming one of the best-selling debuts ever. The album looked both forward and backward: The punky rawness of its sound and the pained artistry of its lyrics made it a bridge between commercial Eighties hard rock and the alternative music of the next decade. But Appetite was also among the last classic rock records to be mastered with vinyl in mind, to be edited with a razor blade applied to two-inch tape, to be mixed by five people frantically pushing faders at a non-automated mixing board “We used classic instruments and classic amps," says the album’s producer and engineer, Mike Clink, “Our approach was reminiscent of stuff that was done in the Sixties and early Seventies." Adds assistant mixing engineer Deyglio, who earned a credit as “Victor ‘the fuckin’ engineer’" on the album: “It could almost be seen as the last of one of those types of records, from Layla to Abbey Road on down. It could be seen as the last great rock record made totally by hand."

Guns N’ Roses released Appetite for Destruction 26 years ago today. Read our 2007 cover story on the making of the album.

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Some fun. and Simon & Garfunkel mixed together to form a new twist on a familiar tune: “Some Nights with Cecilia.”

An inter-generational mashup by Mike Schmid composed of “Some Nights” by fun. and “Cecilia” by Simon & Garfunkel. Mike Schmid is an American singer/songwriter as well as the keyboard player and backing vocalist for Miley Cyrus.

Posted in celebration of the 43rd anniversary of Simon & Garfunkel’s release of “Cecilia” as a radio single (April 1970).

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Original songs by Mike Schmid

Wikipedia entry for “Cecilia”

More “Cecilia” posts on the S&G Scrapbook

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This is pants-shittingly good.

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I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

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The mold for the original Devo hats.

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20 Feet From Stardom: Everything music documentaries and music journalism should aspire to.

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In the third episode of Guitar Moves, we sat down with Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme in a sweltering Los Angeles garage to talk polka guitar and make fun of solos.

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Innocent Words Exclusive Premiere: The Singhs New Single ‘Don’t Mind Waiting’

Innocent Words Premiere's the New Single From System and Station 'Sell us the senseless'

"Sell Us the Senseless" is taken from the recently released self-titled album. Below is exclusive editorial about the song written by RFK Heise (vocals/guitar/keys).

Artist: System and Station Album: Self-titled Track: Sell Us the Senseless

This song has become one of my favorites if not my favorite on our newest record. All of the other songs on the album were fairly close to the original demos minus some re arrangements but Senseless went through at least three other versions before ending up where it is. We labored over this track and ended up completely changing the face of it, it also was very much a group writing effort. The intro was intended to feel like a desert drive at midnight- calming, alive yet a little eerie. The lyric “you’ll save up luck that they throw away” came from a construction site I was working on in the west hills of Portland. I was working carpentry on a mansion on the hill where they remodeled at least one room every year. I would see all of the virtually new materials being discarded, hundreds of thousands of dollars just being tossed. I imagined it as the luck that got them where they were, being thrown out to the street merely because they had abundance.

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