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Stephen McCauley hosts the best alternative music, live performance, interviews and more

Stephen McCauley brings you the best in alternative music from punk to electronica from home and abroad featuring live performance, interviews and more.

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The Stephen McCauley Show: The Beauty of the B-Side

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The Beauty of the B-Side

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Stephen McCauley celebrates B-sides in all their glory.

Stephen McCauley explores and celebrates B-sides in all their idiosyncratic glory.

The rise of music streaming has effectively made the ‘b-side’ redundant but b-sides occupy a unique space in music history.
 
A vestige of physical media, the b-side was a track, or tracks, that artists put on the other side of a 7” single. It escaped the journalistic scrutiny applied to a-sides and albums and, as a result, represented a free space where artists could experiment and try out different ideas.
 
Many b-sides were nothing more than filler but most were fascinating and, in quite a few cases, better or more significant than the a-side single itself. Stephen McCauley explores and celebrates the beauty of the b-side including iconic flip-sides from The Smiths, Elvis Presley, Bjork, Lafaro, Oasis, PJ Harvey, Aphex Twin, Duke Special and The Cure.


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