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This week’s Five Songs You Must Hear features the return of Ill Scarlett, an ex-Pixie, and a new incarnation for one-half of USS.

We’re about to enter a quiet period before things explode for the fourth quarter. Still, there’s freshness to be found out there.

Rock stars are just bags of water and chemicals like the rest of us and fallible to the failings of the body. Here are more stories of battles against disease and ill health.

Someone had to be the first rock roadie. But who was it?

Remember the recorder they made you play in school? That might have descended from the oldest musical instrument in the world.

The debut album from The Smashing Pumpkins didn’t get that much attention upon its release. That was soon fixed.

Hint: Mother Mother had no choice.

This new offering from Blushing is one of those rare tracks that I put on “repeat” and just let it run over and over. To me, this is the perfect Undiscovered Gem.

How well do you know your AWOLNATION history?

Picture Parlour started as a duo in Manchester but are now causing something of a stir in London.