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Florence and the Machine: 'Lungs'
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The story goes that Florence Welch came up with her current single when her label asked her to pen an uptempo hit for her debut album. In some respects she delivered their request, scoring a number 12
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Internet review: English Russia
- 7/3/2009
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Until visiting this wonderful blog about Soviet weirdness, you wouldn't have suspected communist Russia had its own hair metal scene in the 1980s; surely all that preening, leather and lace was too decadent
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Louis Pattison's new releases review
- 7/3/2009
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Enjoyably blotto dubstep-not-dubstep from Rustie, a young Glaswegian man who looks like a younger Glaswegian man, and once wrote a track called Inside Picachu's Cunt. Of all the current so-called 'wonky'
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Kraftwerk/Steve Reich
- 7/3/2009
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In the 1970s, Kraftwerk claimed that in the future their concerts would be put on by automatons while the band watched from the bar. It hasn't happened yet - although robot doubles take their places for
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Discovery: LP
- 7/3/2009
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In which two American indie-rock gentlemen (Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij and Ra Ra Riot's Wes Miles) abandon guitars and try to prove their R&B chops over 30 ear-tearing minutes of handclaps, high-hats
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Moby: Wait For Me
- 7/3/2009
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Recorded in his Manhattan flat and released on his own label, Wait for Me often allows Moby's vocalist pals from the Lower East Side to take the spotlight on a contemplative collection. The big dance
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Billy Childish: Archive from 1959
- 59 Minutes ago
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Intrigued by positive reviews of Billy Childish, but unsure how to penetrate the Chatham punk polymaths 100-album-plus discography? Heres the perfect primer, a double set spanning three decades, with
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Major Lazer: Guns Don't Kill People ... Lazers Do
- 7/3/2009
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A collaboration between clubland cardinals Diplo and Switch, Major Lazer have arrived with an album of electro dancehall guaranteed to get white people of the western world dancing badly. Clamping the
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Bowerbirds: Upper Air
- 7/3/2009
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Phil Moore and Beth Tacular, the couple at the heart of Bowerbirds, live together in a self-built eco-friendly house in a wood in North Carolina. This snippet of biography more or less encapsulates their
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La Roux
- 7/2/2009
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were on everybody's ones-to-watch list at the beginning of the year, but most of the money was on Little Boots to be the big UK pop story of 2009. Six months on, it's this Brixton retro-synth duo who
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Spinal Tap
- 7/2/2009
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No matter how witty they may be, few satires or novelty songs repay repeated listening. So how come a packed Wembley is rocking to the soundtrack of a mockumentary that appeared a quarter of a century
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Cradlesong
- 7/3/2009
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MUSIC: The second solo album for the former Matchbox Twenty singer was produced with Matt Serletic.
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Jeff Buckley
- 7/3/2009
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The CD/DVD set collects some of the performances the singer-songwriter gave during his world tour to promote his debut album, 'Grace,' from 1994 to 1996.
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Trembling Bells
- 7/3/2009
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The debut album for the English and Scottish quartet is led by Alex Neilson, who has worked as a drummer for Wil Oldham, Isobel Campbell, and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy.
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Electric Dirt
- 7/3/2009
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Dirt Farmer Larry Campbell produces the follow-up to Levon Helm's Grammy-winning album, Dirt Farmer.
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Lady Gaga
- 7/1/2009
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The 23-year-old formerly known as Stefani Germanotta must be pop's most ruthlessly effective self-promoter since Madonna. In the last few days alone, headlines about her have read ' Bares All (As Usual)';
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Lady Gaga basks in her own personal heatwave
- 6/30/2009
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The 23-year-old formerly known as Stefani Germanotta must be pop's most ruthlessly effective self-promoter since Madonna. In the last few days alone, headlines about her have read 'Lady Gaga Bares All
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Regina Spektor
- 6/30/2009
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Shouldering its way into the tightly packed festival season comes Hyde Park's Serpentine Sessions, an 'intimate series' of gigs under a huge blue tent that boast as their inaugural headliner. The original
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Glasvegas at Glastonbury 2009
- 6/28/2009
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Glasvegas ... James Allan on the Other stage at Glastonbury 2009. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Who: Glasvegas Where and when: Other tage, 9.10pm Dress code: Pick from any colour, as long as it's black. This
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Glastonbury 2009
- 6/28/2009
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Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs performing during the 2009 Glastonbury festival. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Who: Yeah Yeah Yeahs Where and when: Other stage, Sunday, 5pm Dress code: Karen O is wearing green
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Tom Jones at Glastonbury 2009
- 6/28/2009
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Tom Jones on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury 2009. Photograph: Matt Cardy/ Who: Tom Jones Where and when: Pyramid stage, Saturday, 4.20pm Dress code: Grey is the new black. Orange is the new pink. What
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Klaxons at Glastonbury 2009
- 6/28/2009
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Klaxons ... the band prepare for their Glastonbury festival appearance. Photograph: Andy Hall Who: Klaxons Where and when: Park Stage, 7.50pm, Saturday Dress code: Like members of the Tim Burton fan club.
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La Roux at Glastonbury 2009
- 6/28/2009
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Elly Jackson of La Roux performing in Dance East at Glastonbury 2009. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Who: La Roux Where and when: Dance East, 6pm, Saturday Dress code: Ellie Jackson is wearing a glittery jacket,
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