It’s one thing to be compared to a legendary band, but it’s a far greater achievement to be recognized as great musicians based on your own merit. White Lies long ago escaped the lazy critic-syndrom that tried...
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Ya know, we’re going to pass on the obvious stuff like Pearl Jam, Yeah, Yeah Yeahs and Them Crooked Vultures (not to mention we’re not convinced about that they’re a good idea anyway.). Instead, let’s focus on the bands...
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Tags: alberta cross, bon iver, Dan Auerbach, Music, School of Seven Bells, The Dead Weather, The Henry Clay People, The Raveonettes, The Virgins, The Walkmen, white lies
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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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Initially, I resisted this concept of a mid-year top ten. It seemed like a cheap concept for websites with nothing to talk about. But then I started looking at the lists onmy favorite websites and realized that none of...
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True confession: I liked the O.C.. I liked everything about it: the music, the cheesy acting, the cheesy story lines, did I mention the music? The thing is, while there weren’t future Oscar winners in the show, they...
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Tags: Gossip Girl, Josh Schwartz, Music, O.C., Rockville, Television, The Duke Spirit, The Kooks, white lies
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After reviewing the entire 1000+ songs on the SXSW torrent, reading, listening and watching videos. This our list of the 10 bands you must see while at SXSW. If you’re not at SXSW, these...
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Tags: an horse, division of laura lee, Ida Maria, longview, Minipop, Music, South By Southwest, sxsw, The Duke Spirit, The Living Things, The Pains of Being Pure at heart, The Soft Pack, white lies
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White Lies have just released their video for “Fairwell To The Fairgrounds”. At this point the only place you can see it, is on their website (http://whitelies.com) but we’ll put it up on this website as...
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Stop the rumors! The list for Coachella is out (via Pitchfork)! We can finally stop speculating about a Blur/The Smiths/Pavement reunion. But surely there’s something as good or better than last years’ MBV reunion, right? Wrong! Listen to these headliners!...
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Tags: Blur, coachella, Ida Maria, McCartney, My Bloody Valentine, pavement, smiths, sxsw, The Killers, white lies
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