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by Luke Slater
Though May will be a time when countless numbers of you will be off to one or both ATPs, let's not forget that there are other festivals going on at the time, including the pretty comprehensive Great Escape, which takes place across many, many venues in Brighton every year. This year's festival takes place from May 13-15, and the first wave of bands have just been confirmed. A good bunch they are. Mostly.»
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by Luke Slater
So, you remember last week when those details about Joanna Newsom's new album, Have One On Me 'dropped'? Yeah. Good news and all that, but wasn't the album art a bit...dull? Uninspired? Bland? Just plain old shit? And Tacky? »
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by Luke Slater
Not content with returning their tenth studio album in recent weeks, The Magnetic Fields have just announced that they're going to release their SEMINAL 1999/2000 triple album, 69 Love Songs on DELUXE VINYL. Just in case you aren't aware of this album's near-unrivalled greatness, then listen to some of it here. If you're not blown away, I don't ever want you to make yourself known to me.»
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by Luke Slater
Now, it's not very often that we do totally serious, but occasionally a time does come when a cause or campaign is genuinely worthy of our support and reporting. Today is such one of those days. Amnesty International have today launched a campaign to find the whereabouts of two Iranian music journalists who have recently been arrested in the country.»
In Depth by Luke Slater
One of the many incredible things about being in our position is the opportunities we have had to play shows with bands we admire. In our short time together we've already had the privilege of touring with the likes of No Age, Times New Viking, Broken Social Scene, DanielsoncTitus Andronicus, the Cribs, Jeffrey Lewis and many more. For me, personally, nothing has been a bigger honour than the shows we played with Parenthetical Girls. »
In Depth by Luke Slater
Our content from the past week in musical form.»
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by Luke Slater
You have to wonder how much longer it is before bands start giving away whole albums entirely for free, eh? Oh. Right. Yeah, well, we mustn't scoff at artists who do find the kindness and perhaps common sense in their hearts and heads to offer us, the general public, tracks free to download from their records.»
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by Luke Slater
Listen to The Knife's new album, in full, on here.»
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by Luke Slater
Multi-talented Simon Green, alis Bonobo will return in March with a new full-length LP, entitled Black Sands, and a full European tour to boot. »
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by Luke Slater
Returning rap-pioneer Gil-Scott Heron is among the first bunch of names confirmed for the South Bank Centre's 2010 Ether Festival, which takes place over the course of 10 days, in London, later in the year.»
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by Luke Slater
Over in the United States of America, that Obama bloke has been working on a 'stimulus package' which, in economic terms, means something like a major cash injection into the economy. Also in America, rappist Freeway and producer Jake-One have been working on their own stimulus package, specifically an album which goes by that name.»
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by Luke Slater
Like you'd not had enough audio-visual content from us in the past day, with THREE whole videos AND a brand new Yeasayer song. Well, here's yet another one, this time from that bunch of musicians who call themselves the Yeah Yeah Yeahs for their new single, 'Skeletons'.»
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by Luke Slater
So, for the last day or so, we've been sitting on our hands waiting for the new video from the Danger Mouse and James Mercer collaboration that goes by the name of Broken Bells to show up. Thankfully it now has, and we can show you it. »
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by Luke Slater
Watch the wonderful new video from Efterklang.»
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by Luke Slater
A veritable host of stars from the indieverse have been putting their efforts in recent days to raising money for Haiti and victims of the earthquake which shook the country some two weeks ago.»
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by Luke Slater
Spiritualized will get ANOTHER chance to do the 'Don't Look Back' thing later in the year, as they'll perform their seminal album, Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space at the Matt Groening-curated ATP in May. Nice.»
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by Luke Slater
The upcoming White Stripes film, Under Great White Northern Lights, is to get a UK cinema release, coinciding with its release on DVD and CD in March.»
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by Luke Slater
The shortlist this for this year's version of the hair-styling company sponsored NME Awards have been announced and, well, if awards were given out to awards shows, there'd be no prizes for originality in this case.»
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by Luke Slater
The hactual track list is finally revealed. Rejoice if you won something, curse if you didn't, get annoying because there's no new material.»
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by Luke Slater
Calories + William X free download = HAPPY.»
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by Luke Slater
Some people call the indie-pop scene pretty incestious. Not in that way, but in the way that these blokes and blokettes with instruments aren't afraid to link up with their chums for the sake of music. I guess it's kind of like hip-hop in that way...»
