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Squarepusher has together a live album of his mesmerising plinky-plonky and poppy-slappy solo bass work, entitled Solo Electric Bass 1. It will be released on August 17 through Warp, who else? Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com
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Four String Fun: Squarepusher live album deets revealed
Radiohead to Testify Against the RIAA?
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Radiohead have indicated that they will testify against the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America ) in a landmark case against a Boston student, cementing their support of file-sharing.According to TorrentFreak.com (a blog which is renown for being somewhat sensationalist), the miserablist blip-pop pioneers are likely to defend Boston University student Joel Tenenbaum when the RIAA ta...
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Amazon takes indie myopia to exciting new heights
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Much loved scourge of the independent record shop Amazon.com has just named its top 100 indie-rock albums of all time and the results are somewhat, um, interesting. On the one hand - yay! The top three is Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand, Neutral Milk Hotel's (pictured) In The Aeroplane Over The Sea and Slint's Spiderland.Video: Guided By Voices 'I Am A Scientist' On the other hand - wtf?! The mo...
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DiScussion: what five British records would YOU give to Barack Obama?
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Yes yes, many of us may have spent the day kind of sort of protesting against everything Barack Obama stands for, but, -giggle - just writing his name down makes us at DiS Towers blush like schoolchildren. And we're not the only ones: Radio 4 yesterday asked listeners which five British films they'd offer the great man by way of reciprocity for the 25 Region One DVDs he gave our own dear premi...
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Touring with Radiohead: the Deerhoof-eye view
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Concluding our week of Radiohead-related content, here's another first-hand account of touring with the band, this time from Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier.---Somehow I'd been convinced by people who don't know Radiohead thatthey'd be pretentious and stand-offish. We arrived for soundcheck thefirst day in Berkeley, and Colin Greenwood walked up with a big smileand apologised for missing our last...
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There's A Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars And The Rise And Fall Of 60s Counter-Culture (B
On a day when many of us take to the streets of London to demonstrate ahead of tomorrow's G20 summit - and various publications dust off old arguments bemoaning the lack of protest in modern music - Alexander Tudor considers Peter Doggett's excellent, unromanticised account of the Sixties counter culture.The hefty title and actual physical heft of the book itself tells you plenty – this is goin.
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Spinnerette - Ghetto Love EP
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Brody Dalle is back. Perhaps better known as the front woman of The Distillers or the mother of Josh Homme's child, far from getting all motherly and mellowing, Brody's new guise Spinnerette is anything but middle-of-the-baby-food-aisle ‘mature’ acoustic blah-rock. There's just as much energy spiralling from ‘Valium Nights’ as there was on the whole Coral Fang album from five years ago!Whe
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The Nerves - One Way Ticket
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Chances are, without the posthumous patronage of a certain female-led new wave band (Blondie - Idiot's Guide to Music Ed), any fleeting memory of The Nerves would have disappeared into oblivion by the time the 1980s first shook its perma-tanned backside at the world.Over almost before they began, the LA-based trio stuck to their guns just long enough to release one self-titled 7” EP in 1976, be.
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In Photos: Franz Ferdinand
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DiS snapper, Graham Shackleton caught up with the Scotsmen Franz Ferdinand live in Manchester, at the Academy. Franz's setlist for the show was as follows:The Dark Of The Matinée No You Girls Do You Want To The Fallen Twilight Omens Walk Away Take Me Out Turn It On 40' Bite Hard Michael What She Came For Encore:Ulysses Lucid Dreams Outsiders This Fire Franz FerdinandThe Good Pack
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Free Grizzly Bear download: 'Cheerleader' from Veckatimest
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Dying to hear the new Grizzly Bear album? Well, it's not out officially for another couple of months - but here's a little sneak preview from Veckatimest in the shapely form of album track 'Cheerleader'. You want it? Click the link below and enjoy. FYI, the rest of the record is this good, i.e. great!Download 'Cheerleader'Veckatimest is released on May 25th via Warp.The band play twice at this...
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Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
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One of the many, many things that used to separate Neko Case from the country community at large was how honest to god terrifying she could be. “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die”? Oh did you now Johnny? Big deal. You could shoot all the men in Reno (not a terrible idea, actually, it’s awful) and still get the shivers from Case’s searingly lonely murder victim study ‘Deep Red Be
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News Drowned-Up: 4AD, The Dead Weather (featuring Jack White), My Latest Novel and more
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4ADThe label have announced the lineup for their 2009 SXSW showcase - it'll take place on March 18th at Central Presbyterian Church (200 E. 8th St, Austin, TX 78701) and feature performances from Camera Obscura (12am), Department Of Eagles (10pm), M. Ward (9pm), Anni Rossi (8pm) and St Vincent (11pm). But, for those of us unable to make the trip across the Atlantic, they've prepared this handy ...
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In Photos: Crystal Antlers, The Invisible and Three Trapped Tigers @ DiScover Sheffield
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Crystal Antlers, The Invisible and Three Trapped Tigers could probably all headline DiScover gigs themselves, but on Wednesday they played on the same bill at our Sheffield event. Weren't we lucky?Of course, we knew what to expect from The Invisible, who'd turned in a fantastically funky set of interesting pop the previous night at our Deaf Institute showcase in Manchester, but the other two we...
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Video Premiere: Jeffrey Lewis 'To Be Objectified'
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DiS premières the new video from musician and illustrator Jeffrey Lewis. Jeffrey Lewis has made this video for only $99. In it, he's constructed a time lapse, large scale illustration, while his performance is rotoscoped into a comic book cartoon. The video is for the Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard track 'To Be Objectified' taken is from the album 'Em Are I, which is released in the UK on the 20t..
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Bishop Allen - Grrr...
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Thankfully no-one’s dubbing Bishop Allen 'This Year’s Vampire Weekend', because it would be nice to see their jaunty charms discovered slowly, rather than being foisted on us all through adverts and hype. There are hints of flamenco and barbershop in their music, the guitars often sound Hawaiian, and the percussion often includes marimba, but pastiche never swamps any given song. If this means
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Fever Ray - Fever Ray
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Electronic music – when it’s being made by natural performers, rather than solitary craftsmen – has always gone hand-in-hand with fluid identities; multiplying them, extending them, erasing them. Each medium, says McLuhan, is an extension of man; for every extension, says Baudrillard, there’s a corresponding amputation… or castration. These are the kind of dark jokes and symbolic manipul
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Various - Final Song, Vol. 1
Compiling an album according to the song you want played at your funeral, or the last song you’d want to hear before you shuffle, frug, pogo or vogue off this mortal coil, is an idea that, as Final Song #1 shows, proves both brilliant in conception and slightly insane in execution. Brilliant because everyone’s thought about their funeral at some point of craven self-absorption; insane because,
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In Photos: Shred Yr Face 2 with The Bronx, Fucked Up and Rolo Tomassi
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Shred Yr Face is back, and this time it's hardcore...The Bronx, Fucked Up and Rolo Tomassi is a triple-header that's pretty much guaranteed to ruin your head, and so it proved at London's Electric Ballroom last week.DiS snapper Lucy Johnston put on body armour, sharpened her elbows and headed into the danger zone. ---The Bronx---Fucked Up---Rolo Tomassi---
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Playground Weekender 2009: the DiS review
The Playground Weekender took place in New South Wales, Australia, between February 6th and 8th. Chris Beanland went Down Under for DiS.---Swimming in shark-infested rivers, drinking cold beer at all-day pool parties, and basking in 45 degree sun - not exactly an underwhelming weekend in Pilton’s overrated valley of shame, is it?Australia’s Playground Weekender is everything that a boutique fe
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Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
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Since emerging in the mid 90s, Andrew Bird has leapt from genre to genre with aplomb, thrilling fans, critics and fellow musicians alike with his wares. A prodigiously talented violinist, proficient wordsmith and fine singer, he now finds himself in a position where he’s able to blog for the New York Times, ascend to the upper echelons of the US Billboard Chart and record with affiliates such a.
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