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One of my favourite bands, Liars, have been missing for some time. In fact, their last album was released in 2007. A great album in my view, I’ve really been looking forward to what they’ll come up with next. So I was delighted to see their new single posted on Wired today.
Their new Ep, Scissors, [...]
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Well you may have read the BBC’s Sound of 2010 list last month, as yet another top five of the years most hotly tipped acts reached the eager music loving masses. The list does a fairly good job of picking out the major label talent with their eye on breaking the mainstream and is always [...]
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New Tallest Man on Earth material surfaces
Swedish folk ace The Tallest Man on earth has a track from his forthcoming album, The Wild Hunt, up on his MySpace. It’s great.
The vinyl re-issue of Brand New’s superb 3rd album, The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me, is delayed yet again.
Buy the CD.
The forthcoming Dillinger [...]
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What’s your favourite music video? When I was growing up, I can remember many days spent sprawled out on the couch, watching with varying degrees of interest the constant stream of music videos on stations like MTV2/Hits/Q etc. I looked forward to seeing new music videos, and found a couple of hours spent gazing at [...]
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Rewind two years. Hot Chip would have featured on my top songs of the year list. ‘Ready For The Floor’ was an anthem, and the band could do no wrong in the eyes of many. ‘Made In The Dark’ is still one of my favourite albums and their previous effort ‘The Warning’ which featured classics [...]
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New Joanna Newsom gets continually more exciting
“Have One on Me”, out February 23rd on Drag City will ring in at no less than 3CDs and/or 3LPs.
Eluvium adds vocals, courts controversy
New album, “Similes”, adds some singing into the mix of the ambient fan-favourite. Out February 23rd on Temporary Residence Limited.
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Hello and welcome to another week of musical intrigue.
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Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova split re-issue on Saddle Creek in March
Omaha’s Saddle Creek Records are re-issueing the excellent EP by Bright Eyes and the massively underrated Neva Dinova. Bonus tracks and vinyl and other temptations. Pre-order.
The new Efterklang album is a bit different
It is. But Efterklang are pretty [...]
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Welcome to the first edition of Luke’s column about all things Indie Music. We’re going to try this as a weekly job, and as always appreciate your honest feedback.
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New Joanna Newsom album scheduled for February
Indie kids rejoiced with the news that harpist, Joanna Newsom’s, third full-length, “Have One on Me”, will be released February 23rd [...]
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People make an awful lot of fuss about Vampire Weekend. Before releasing their first album they had already amassed a huge following of fanatics, and as many detractors. Their new album, Contra, was released on January 11th and like any second album has the difficult task of building on their previous work while trying for [...]
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Over the past couple of years it has been the “straight-edge” punk scene that has brought me the most pleasure and taken up the majority of my time and money. However, I’d still be the first to admit that it all too frequently veers towards the formulaic and predictable. With their third full length, and [...]
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