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The Strokes debut Is This It has been named as the best album of the decade, according to UK music magazine NME.In a list that was dominated by guitar rock, other notable names were....more here.
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Strokes Debut Is This It Named Album Of The Decade
Luke Haines - Live in Brighton
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Luke Haines is one of the lost figures of modern British music. His first album with The Auteurs, New Wave, was as good as anything else that came out of the British pop explosion in the mid-90s and he released several excellent albums as The Auteurs and Black Box Recorder over the next 10 years.Despite this I had pretty low expectations of his solo performance. The last Haines's album I purcha...
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La Roux and Little Boots To Duet With 80s Synth-Pop Legends
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La Roux and Little Boots are to perform duets with Heaven 17 and Gary Numan as part of a radio celebration of the influence of 1980s synth pop on modern music....more here.
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Andrew Bird Reveals Film Score Plans
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Andrew Bird is to pen the score to a forthcoming high-school set film and reveals his bizarre horn sculptor idea...more here
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Comics Legend Moore To Team Up With Gorillaz Albarn and Hewlett
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Blur frontman Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett are to team up with comic legend Alan Moore for a forthcoming musical collaboration.According to an interview with Mustard magazine Moore whose graphic novels include Watchmen and V for Vendetta said They came down to Northampton where Moore lives last week because were planning for me to do the libretto on their next opera. He declined to giv...
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The Maccabees Bombay Bicyle Club and The Drums Join NME Shockwaves Lineup
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The Maccabees Bombay Bicycle Club The Big Pink and The Drums have been named as the acts taking part in next years Shockwaves NME Awards Tour.The annual UK tour is seen as a showcase for some of the best indie acts around well according to the NME that is.Among those to take part in previous tours and go on to other greater things are Ting Tings Klaxons Arctic Monkeys The Cribs Bloc Party and T...
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Heavy Trash - Midnight Soul Serenade (Album Review)
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"While Elvis's hotel had heartbreak, Spencer's has pills, booze and vomit"....click here for more.
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Lost Iggy and the Stooges Songs To Resurface
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A raft of previously unrecorded Iggy and the Stooges tracks have resurfaced.According to Bangshowbiz Iggy Pop has recently reconciled with Stooges guitarist James Williamson and both are keen to record songs from their 70s heyday that they did not get the chance to put down on vinyl at the time.Iggy Pop who recently won a Living Legend award at the Marshall Classic Rock Roll of Honour awards to...
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Heavy Trash Release Sometimes You Got To Be Gentle Video
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Heavy Trash the rockabilly band fronted by Jon Spencer has released one of the dirtiest rock n roll albums of the year. Among the wonderfully filth ridden tracks on the album Midnight Soul Serenade is this gem Sometimes You Got To Be Gentle...caution the lyrics may offend.
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The Phantom Band - Live at the Borderline 04/11/09
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The Borderline isn't the right venue. It feels too small for the band who produced an album as good as Checkmate Savage. It is also an example of a venue that has a pillar in front of the stage. That kind of bad planning really bugs me. But this isn't a review of the stage area; this is a review of one of the most exciting British bands of the year.The Phantom Band are pretty hard to pigeonhole...
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Album Review: Grant Hart - Hot Wax
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What a band Husker Du was to be blessed with two fantastic songwriters and performers in Bob Mould and Grant Hart. While Mould often got the plaudits Hart...more here.
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U2 Criticised For Putting Up Barriers At Berlin Wall MTV Gig
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U2's concert to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has caused a storm after concert organisers built a wall around the venue.In an act of supreme irony the organisers have erected a two-metre barrier around the Brandenburg gate venue to keep out those without tickets....more here.
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Top 10 Bizarre Music Awards Moments
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Award shows can provide some of the music industrys most embarrassing and cringeworthy moments. From Katy Perrys antics to Kanye Wests recent outburst not a ceremony goes by without some sort of faux pas altercation or blunder. To mark the sheer stupidity of award shows weve compiled some of the most bizarre and embarrassing moments in recent ceremony history. Weve got a food fight a machine g...
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Time to play Fantasy Festival
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Neon Filler are lucky enough to have a chalet at Pavement ATP. Getting tickets for an event so long in advance means a lot of waiting time. But it also gives me the opportunity to play Fantasy Festival for the next seven months.Playing Fantasy Festival has rules like any fantasy football league. Bands need to be alive so no Johnny Cash active or have some chance of being brought back together ...
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Dag Nasty - Godfathers of Emo and one of punk's most underrated bands
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Many have pointed out that Dag Nasty was among the earliest influences on Emo. Few respectable punk bands will happily admit to have spawned the likes Fall Out Boy and we at Neonfiller hope that Dag Nasty is honoured for more than this. In particular we hope that as the sands of musical time pass Dag Nasty is remembered for offering a unique, fast paced slice of....more here.
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Best Ever Songs About Drinking
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Drinking is a subject that is part of the common experience of songwriters and music fans alike. The relationship between artists and the demon booze is often a troubled one, but one that cannot be ignored. Here's our list of some of the most memorable drinking songs by the like of Tom Waits, Grandaddy...more here.
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Canadian Folk Singer Killed In Coyote Attack
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A rising star of the Canadian folk music scene has been attacked and killed by coyotes in the Eastern part of the country.Singer-songwriter Taylor Mitchell, 19, had been strongly tipped for stardom after receiving a Canadian Folk Music Award nomination....more here.
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