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Watch: North Atlantic Oscillation - 'Drawing Maps From Memory'
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Bonnaroo announces first instalment of bands for 2010
New York's Bonnaroo festival has announced the first batch of acts for its 2010 incarnation, which currently features about a trillion bands. Not all of them are listed below, though. It's sometimes possible to use it as a rough indicator of what bands will be around the whole festival scene ...
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Gil-Scott Heron - I'm New Here
Whether these 15 tracks have helped him lay some demons to rest is impossible to say, what’s beyond all doubt however, is that I’m New Here is a seriously good record. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com
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The Sunshine Underground - Nobody's Coming To Save You
The music business can be a harsh place at the best of times. Just ask The Sunshine Underground. Four years ago they were one of this country's hottest musical tips, having been paraded alongside Klaxons as figureheads for the so-called "New Rave" movement. One lukewarm received debut album ...
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Shining - Blackjazz
Here we have a record which will, at the very best, leave a lot of people perplexed. Making music this extreme and devoid of anything approximating 'pop' will have that effect. For better, or for worse. Despite that, though, there remains the elements of appeal Read the full story on ...
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Watch: Jamie T - 'Emily's Heart'
That Jamie T's a right cheeky chappy, isn't he? Totally. He releases yet another single - and with it a video! - from last year's Kings & Queens, which actually managed to make it to #2 in the UK album's chart when it was released. Pretty good going, no? Read the full story on ...
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Watch: Preview vids from worriedaboutsatan and Andrew WK
It's not every day that you see PARTY HARD activist Andrew W.K and Leeds electronic ambient duo worriedaboutsatan in one place, but today is going to buck that trend, as we present an album preview from the singular, and a single preview from the combo. Read the full story on ...
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The White Stripes take issue with US Air Force Super Bowl ad
The White Stripes are a little annoyed at an unauthorised televised use of their track 'Fell In Love With A Girl' during Sunday's Superbowl. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com
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MGMT reveal album tracklisting and release date
Brookyln musical duo and possible buzz-band of 2008 MGMT have confirmed that their new record, Congratulations, will be released on April 13, as well as revealing the tracklisting for the nine-track follow-up to Oracular Spectacular. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com  ...
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The Futureheads announce new album title and UK tour
Jaunty-jerky rockers of a North-Eastern persuasion The Futureheads have revealed the album title for their fourth full-length, as well as confirming a collection of tour dates, supporting that record, in late April and early May. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com
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In Photos: Is Tropical @ Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds
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Rival Schools to work with Beastie Boy Adam 'Adrock' Horovitz on new material
Post-hardcore masters Rival Schools are to work with Beastie Boy Adam 'Ad-Rock' Horovitz on a track, which will possibly make its way on their new record, lead singer Walter Schreifels has revealed (via RockSound). Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com
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Watch: Wild Beasts - 'We Still Got The Taste Dancing On Our Tongues'
Video directed by Luke Seomore & Joseph Bull. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com
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Plan B give away every back issue online
When the Global Economic Downturn took another victim in well-respected and thoroughly well-written music magazine Plan B, people reacted expectedly - with particular sadness. OK, you may argue that the recession didn't in fact take the magazine, with the decision to fold being made ...
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Yeasayer's track-by-track guide to Odd Blood
Okay, you’ve heard Yeasayer’s second set, Odd Blood, but are you entirely sure what the band are harping on about? The band’s Anand Wilder provides some clues to their future-pop odyssey with this here track by track guide. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com
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Phoenix, Caribou and more for Field Day 2010
London's one-day festival that is Field Day has unloaded the first batch of artists to grace its line-up for the year of the lord 2010, including most-excellent French electronic-rock combo Phoenix - who are the first headliners to be announced - and the, arguably, even more excellent Dan ...
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Pere Ubu announce February UK tour
Cult American quintet Pere Ubu have announced a brief-ish February UK tour, promoting the release of their most recent and something like umpteenth record, Long Live Père Ubu!. All shows on the tour - except the one at the Garage in London - will be under the banner of 'Long Live Père Ubu! - ...
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Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
It is difficult to write music that addresses either the delicate balance or the ever-more-rapid destruction of the planet without over-egging it – without the finished piece coming off as trite and/or the writer coming off as a wannabe eco-champion who’s just in it for their own ego. But The... ...
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Thao and the Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster
If Thao were to apply the same wise-beyond-her-years judgement to the music as to her lyrics, however, by the time a successor to Know Better, Learn Faster rolls around she might have no need of her own advice. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com
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Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou - Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou
Like many (most, probably) folk acts then, Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou are at their most appealing when they shrug off all the clichés of a genre that, through its age, is full of them. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com
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