Manic Street Preachers newest LP Journal For Plague Lovers has only been on shop shelves for forty-eight hours and already the band have announced a completely remixed version of the record, featuring ton's of respectable artists. The remixed Plague Lovers came about after the Preachers themselves hand picked a bunch of talented bands and designated them each a song.
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The Manic Street Preachers have announced that each track on their new album, “Journal For Plague Lovers”, is to be remixed for future release.DetailsAndrew Weatherall ‘Peeled Apples’Saint Etienne ‘Jackie Collins Existential Question Time’British Sea Power ‘Me And Stephen Hawking’Patrick Wolf ‘This Joke Sport Severed’Optimo (Espacio) ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’The Pariahs ‘She Bathed Herself In...
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A brand new documentary about the Manic Street Preachers, including interviews about their new album due next week, will be on Channel 4 this weekend.
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An article in Saturday's edition of The Guardian featured further proof that fascists just don't get irony or context.The paper reported that the far-right British National Party posted a YouTube video entitled 'The Cesspit Called London', which was intended to reveal the "violence, hatred, fragmentation and despair" wrought on the capital of the United Kingdom by the "great multi-cultural expe...
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Manic Street Preachers have announced a new tour for late May and early June. The tour dates will be in support of new album ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’ which comes out on May 18th and is a record composed only of lyrics left behind by missing guitarist Richey Edwards reportedly.Monday 25th May 2009 - Glasgow [...]
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Some bands may be permenant, yet non-essential, fixtures in my music collection; others may come and go with the winds of change. However, a handful manage to make it into what is tentatively known as RobinPlaysChords' Hall of Fame - a place for the bands that I would take to a desert island. From this, I normally champion two bands in particular; Placebo, who are officially the band to help an...
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Album number nine for the boys from Blackwood, and their regeneration continues apace with a little help from Richey and Albini.
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It is easy to forget that once, in the shrouded mists of time that were the early 1990's a band could be considered controversial. Not in a 'swearing on the radio' or 'I'm going to shoot your face' kind of way, but in a genuine, almost terrifying fashion.Manic Street Preachers were such a band.Dividing opinion from the offset, they emerged a half-psychotic, embryonic band of New York Dolls cast...
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The Welsh three-piece go back to their former band-mate’s lyric book and set it to music –- and reinvigorate themselves in the process.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers Words: Gareth O'Malley To get this out of the way first, this is not The Holy Bible Pt. 2. Yes, I know, that's a comparison that's been around for months now, but, let's face it, it was never going to happen. The Manics' new-found pop sensibilities are [...]
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For those of us who feel that if we tolerate Rihanna's voice our children will be next, salvation is here.This is the new Umbrella.Manics style. It {indie} rocks. It's lovely. An ideal song to listen to while sitting next to your boyfriend/girlfriend, with your car swallowing up one asphalt mile after the other.It might be old news to many of you (though I didn't see another post of this; if I'...
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New release from the Manic Street Preachers with an interesting twist. Seems most of the lyrics were written by a band member who mysteriously vanished back in 1995...From Wiki:'Manic Street Preachers' are an alternative rock band from Blackwood, Wales, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield (vocals, guitars), Nicky Wire (bass, occasional vocals) and Sean Moore (drums, backing vocals, oc...
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In February of 1995 Manic Street Preachers guitarist and songwriter Richey Edwards went missing. His car was found abandoned by the Severn Bridge, which connects England and Wales. There have been alleged sightings of Edwards but it is believed that he, 27 at the time, commited suicide. It's been thirteen years and Edwards' family, on Novmber 23rd, 2008, has finally declared him presumed dead...
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Will we ever know how much Radiohead made from their digital download release of In Rainbows? Maybe not, but most people are banking on the fact that it wasn't much, even fellow musicians. "Fair play to Radiohead for doing something different," Manic Street Preachers' bassist Nicky Wire told the UK's Daily Star. "It's certainly great for publicity but I think it kind of demeans music. Music use...
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Kevin Carter was part of a tightly knit band of South African photojournalists known as "The Bang Bang Club" - four friends who found their calling in the war-ravaged black townships as apartheid was coming to a violent close. Yet his most evocative image came not from South Africa, but from southern Sudan, where he traveled to photograph the mass starvation caused by a devastating civil war in...
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