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Can M for Montreal predict pop's future?
Ian Gittins: Risk frostbite at Quebec's coolest festival, but you may just find the next big thing in Canadian pop
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The silliest show of 2008?
Guardian.co.uk/music: Pilgrim outfits, pug dogs, massages, canapés, easels, cauldrons and a Segway Personal Transporter all in one performance
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The Grants are the best unsigned band in the world
Alan McGee: I said they were the best unsigned band in the UK. Are the Grants the best on the planet?
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Durex recruit Mozart for their latest TV ad
Something for the weekend (well, Tuesday) - and a hilarious advertising misprision of classical music : the current TV ad for Durex 's Play O lubricant for women. There are 30 seconds of perfectly groomed young women in the back-arching, pupils-dilating throes of carnal abandon - either in ...
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Scene and heard: Trancehall
John McDonnell: Trancehall isn't just a scene. It's a global movement. Or that's what I'd say if I were a deluded music PR
The London Jazz festival's newer faces
Tonight at 11.15pm on Radio 3's Jazz on 3 and thereafter on Listen Again, you can hear the highlights of the all-afternoon free show for young, regional or unsigned bands that the BBC and the London Jazz festival's organisers staged as part of that mammoth event's final day just over a week ...
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Pop maths: week two
Toby Collard's (already) wildly popular musical maths quiz is back. Get your thinking caps on ...
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Sean O'Hagan pays tribute to Rob Partridge
Rob Partridge died on Wednesday. Unless you work in the music press or the music business, you probably haven't heard of him, but he was a much-loved character who shaped the musical landscape in his own understated way. He was best known as the man who persuaded Island Records to sign U2, ...
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The art of a good band T-shirt
Paul Fleckney: 6 Music wants us to wear our favourite sweat-encrusted tees to work next Thursday - what have we got to lose?
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Chris Power: Will iTunes kill off the album interlude?
Chris Power: Charging for downloads per track may leave those little experimental slices struggling to be heard
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Music Weekly podcast: Antony Hegarty and Sway
Welcome to another edition of Music Weekly, the pod that brings you music, chat and a feature that we can't find a name for each and every Friday. Our main guest this week is Antony Hegarty, he of "and the Johnsons" and one of the most powerful voices in popular music. He talks to Rosie Swash ...
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Readers recommend: Songs about light
By the time I'd checked out 50 harrowing recommendations for last week's violence theme , I felt as though I'd spent a few rounds in the ring with a heavyweight boxer. By the time I'd reached 100, even the positive, redemptive songs were making me cry. And when it came to putting the playlist ...
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Staggered releases - everyone's a loser
Have you ever been annoyed when you hear a song on the radio or in a TV show and when you go to iTunes to download it , you find it's not available? If so, you've come up against the problem of a staggered release, an old standard that is becoming increasingly problematic for the music ...
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Have yourself an indie little Christmas
Luke Turner: The mainstream is cowering before the perfect seasonal storm of X Factor winner plus Leonard Cohen. But indie bands still have their eyes on the prize
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The Manics' lyrics were something special
The Guardian's obituary of Richey Edwards , the guitarist and co-lyricist of the Manic Street Preachers, evidently stirred up memories for a surprising number of people when it was published yesterday. By lunchtime it was the day's most-read story on the Guardian website . Edwards – who ...
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New music on Wednesday
From Stereogum A.R. Rahman & M.I.A – 'O… Saya' M.I.A's playground raps splash against Rahman's thunderous drumming on this excerpt from the soundtrack to Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire . No wonder the Tamils call the multi-million selling Indian composer 'Musical Storm'. From East of LA  ...
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True tales: Daniel Johnston, double-edged
Everett True: Not only is Daniel a very talented singer and songwriter, but he's also a rather fine artist
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Will Byers: The long and winding track
Will Byers: Why are pop songs so short? Can we learn to love longer tracks or are pop songs better off under the three minute mark?
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Rough Trade at 30: thanks for the memories
John Moore: The label that gave us the Smiths and the Strokes was also a haven for one-off gems. This Berkshire schoolboy loved it
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Alan McGee: The magnificent Joe Foster
Alan McGee: Joe Foster's eclecticism, energy, instincts and sense of adventure are exactly the qualities lacking in today's music industry
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