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Josephine Baker was born in 1906 as Freda Josephine MacDonald in St Louis, Missouri. Her mother Carrie was a washerwoman and ex-vaudeville girl, her father was a drummer named Eddie Carson who ran off when Josephine was only a little girl.…

Wilco Star Wars On first appearance, everything about Wilco’s eighth studio album, Star Wars, feels throwaway. The familiar, yet seemingly random name, the meme-like cover of a cat and not least the fact that it was released with very…

Tyler, The Creator Cherry Bomb Odd Future probably don’t get the credit they deserve as a collective. Frank Ocean could be argued as one of the most exciting talents in the music business as a whole right now and he has two excellent…

The decade of the 1980s still holds a gargantuan treasure chest of blissfully stupid B-movie actioners and schlock science fiction. Travel back to your earliest memories of going to the cheapest, flimsiest video shop you can think of and…

In Sonic Doom, we delve exclusively into the back catalogue of critically-reviled acts in a bid to discover the odd unstained gem. First up, Conor Donohoe checks in with Canadian pub band done good Nickelback, who, astonishingly, turn 20…