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Men have been fucking up the world for some time now. We find ourselves in a world dominated by competition,...
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Lady Gaga, cultural pop provocateur, subverting tabloid culture from the inside as some 21st century femen Warhol, or talentless, crass,...
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Midlake appeared alongside Coldplay around 2003, the hairy, hippified Grateful Deaders to Coldplay’s (then unforeseen) fucking U2. Through relentless worldwide...
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It may be all very well to attract your celebrity mates (Bowie, bearded womble James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem) in...
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I never was one for the punk movement’s hatred of the old, or the skilled/talented. It often seemed like a...
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Anna Calvi has certainly always ticked all the right boxes. Debbie Harry bone structure, Ahmet Ertegun‘s phone book, Sharon Van...
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Kings Of Leon always were the hairier, rougher Oasis to The Strokes‘ smarter, more exploratory Blur. Caleb Followill’s familial preacher-progeny...
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‘Their music sounds a bit like folk-rock with a few R&B/hip-hop stylings thrown in for good measure’ Thanks Wikipedia for...
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If Brighton’s Gorse were neither plant nor band, they would be a tree; and an enormous, centuries-old...
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What is it with bands of a certain level of self-importance that, some albums into their career, want to...
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GIITTV: When your name comes up in music-lovers’ conversation, four other words follow, Cocteau Twins and Bella Union (Records). Which...
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Some albums are the definitive slow burners. British Sea Power‘s sixth set, ‘Machineries of Joy’, released in April of this...
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If I was wondering how the bookish songwriting genius of Stuart Murdoch and his precise, sometimes twee-sounding twelve – twelve!...
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Somewhere between dredge and deranged, right? Yes, that’d be about right. Lake District brothers Rory and Eoin Loveless are frankly...
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(I am sitting with my friend Yasemin in a branch of Cafe Nero, in Istanbul’s well-to-do neighbourhood of Levent, ordering...
