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Working At Death Row Records - The Reality, Crazier Than The Myth
Clash's Nina Bhadreshwar spent the mid 90s in L.A. working for influential Hip Hop label Death Row Records, read on for the story of how she landed the job working with label boss Suge Knight. - If...
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Zola Jesus Talks To Soap & Skin
Zola Jesus, AKA former philosophy student Nika Danilova, is an avant-industrial pop challanger with a fondness for haunting melodies. Austrian-born Anja Plaschg records as Soap&Skin, crafting...
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Tycho: Guide To San Francisco
Real name Scott Hansen, Tycho wasn't born in San Francisco. The producer spent his adolescence in Sacramento, making music in teenage guitar bands. Journeying down the West Coast, Hansen found himself...
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Their Library: Bill Ryder-Jones
Best known for his subtle, lyrical guitar playing with The Coral, Bill Ryder-Jones recently chose to focus on his own output. Recording a soundtrack for a short film, the guitarist released the...
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Cybraphon - Created By FOUND
FOUND are an art-pop collective from Edinburgh who thrive on unique and engaging musical projects. Their name was further thrown afield when they built a Victorian robot that became fame obsessed and...
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Rob St John: Weald
Long in the shadow of its West Coast cousin, Edinburgh's music scene burst into life recently. Auld Reekie seemed to be crawling with young songwriters, fusing Scotland's folk sensibility with...
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Wax Analysis #1
Remember when record shopping was still in vogue and not so much a spectator sport? There was once an age where you had an intimate relationship with your record dealer as a buyer, who you've ginned...
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Global Playlist: DR Congo
Even on the blood soaked continent of Africa, the DR Congo has suffered more than most. Only recently dragging itself out of a civil war, the war torn nation is beginning to look ahead, with the...
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The Sharpsichord - Created By Henry Dagg
When the English Folk Dance and Song Society gave maverick bespoke instrument creator and sound sculptor Henry Dagg £56,000 to create three environmentally interactive musical installations little did...
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Everything Goes My Way: Metronomy
In town to perform at the launch of Ralph Lauren's Denim & Supply range, Metronomy's show will be broadcast to fans around the world via the brand's Facebook page. Launching a series of shows,...
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Nicola Roberts Last Day On Earth
How would you spend your last day alive? Nicola Roberts wants to hook up with Kanye West. Where would you like to wake up? I suppose with my family and friends around me. I couldn’t really say...
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A Letter From... Canada #5
Happy November UK friends! Hope the fall is treating you well! Here is an update from the very cold and rainy Canadian city of Toronto! Some of the bands I'm exciting about and couldn't help but share...
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Ten Things You Never Knew About... Jarvis Cocker
Behind the spectacles of Indie's corduroy King and chief geek. 1. Back in 2007 Cocker curated London’s Meltdown Festival, following in the footsteps of musical legends Patti Smith, Morrissey, Nick...
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In The Studio - The Big Pink
Following a 2009 full of post-album touring and a part-time hiatus for much of 2010, The Big Pink, AKA Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell, return with another cluster of electro-rock musings. ‘Future This’...
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Pinkunoizu: Hits Of Sunshine
Hailing from Denmark, Pinkunoizu have an experimental bent which is difficult to place. Recent EP 'PEEP' was three tracks of pure psychedelia, but the mind expanding dimensions of their music aren't...
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A Letter From... Liverpool #1
After the relentless exhilaration of Liverpool Music Week’s seventeen-day marathon, we’re all looking forward to an early night and a nice long lie-in before having to leave the house again. But...
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Beach Boys: Smile
When recording sessions kicked off on the project tentatively titled 'Smile' the Beach Boys couldn't have known that the proposed album would take some forty years to complete. Beginning the album as...
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The Chopper - Created By Micachu
Matthew Herbert’s protégé builds her own crazy instrument harnessing unusual pitch, a CD rack and the professional plumbing skills of her mate, Dave. Operating at the coalface of experimentalism with...
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Boys Noize: Remixes (2004-2011)
First a DJ, then a producer, then a label owner Boys Noize has become one of the dominating figures on the electro scene. Adding a techno edge to his music, Boys Noize has crafted a steady series of...
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Lana Del Rey Interview
“I’m sorry you have to see me like this,” says Lana Del Rey, standing in a doorway. Quite why someone looking so spectacular - she’s dressed in leather playsuit with blow-dried hair as big as her...
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