I’ll say it again: you don’t need big budget production and ten people in your band to make a big sound. Britain’s own Ten City Nation produce enough racket to bring out your inner Steve Albini....
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Well, actually I don’t have any highlights from Leeds and Reading yet, but we’ll post ‘em asap. In the meantime, here’s video of two concerts by two bands that we’ve been telling you about recently: The Big Pink and The...
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Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Music, Prodigy, Radiohead, Reading, The Big Pink, The Horrors, the joy formidable, The XX, white lies
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Magazine were an influential British post punk band founded in 1977 by former Buzzcocks singer Howard Devoto and guitarist John McGeoch. The other members of the band’s classic lineup included bassist Barry Adamson, keyboardist...
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Tags: Dave Formula, Howard Devoto, magazine, Music, Podcast
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Hyperbole (pronounced hye-PER-bə-lee, from ancient Greek “ὑπερβολή”, meaning excess or exaggeration) is a figure of speech in which statements are exaggerated. It may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, but is rarely...
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Tags: Heat-Ray, Music
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For roughly seven years, Frank Yang has been helping me find good music. His website, (http://chromewaves.net) is one of the few that I consider a must-read every day. There are a lot of websites run by...
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Tags: Blogs, Chromewaves, Music
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Here again is one of our past interviewees continuing to get bigger and better. They’ve offered their new video for Renee Loves Losers for us to share with you. Enjoy! LR ROCKETS new single ‘Renee Loves Losers /...
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A while ago, we got a very nice email from someone at Apple inviting us to publish a weekly podcast on iTunes. Since then, we’ve gotten a few requests to put our interview with Peter Hook...
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How can a 3-piece indie band from England create the sound of an orchestra of angels so effortlessly? To me The Joy Formidable sounds like one of those great 4AD bands of the late eighties; ethereal...
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Whenever we put edit together one of these interviews, we always embed a view videos as a point of reference for people as they read the article. As we put together our interview with Charlotte Hatherley, the magnitude of...
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Tags: ash, bat for lashes, charlotte hatherley, Music
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One of the joys of running this site is the daily discovery of new bands. As we’ve said before, this has been one of the most vibrant and exciting years for music in decades. But this...
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