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Chapterhouse, Ulrich Schnauss and Fjord Rowboat at Lee’s Palace in Toronto
Frank YangOne might think that after last weekend’s three-day salute to the ’90s I’d be ready to get back to the 21st century, musically-speaking, but instead last Wednesday night turned the dial on...
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Mogwai want to remind you of your own mortality and will do it in person
Steve GullickWith 2010 tasked largely to the production and promotion of Burning and Special Moves, their aural and visual live summation of their first decade and half of existence, Mogwai will enter...
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Review of Manic Street Preachers’ Postcards From A Young Man
Dean ChalkeyMost bands with longevity – if they’re lucky – have a career arc that starts with a good to great debut and trends upwards towards a critical and hopefully commercial peak – simultaneously,...
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Review of Anna Calvi’s Anna Calvi
Emma NathanThis week marks the beginning of the annual cross-continental live music bacchanal that I like to call CMWCMFSxSW (pronounced the way it’s spelled), and while I still fully expect to have a...
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2011 Mercury Music Prize shortlist is predictably unpredictable
Jean-Baptiste MondinoThanks to the fact that the United Kingdom exists five hours into the future, I woke up yesterday morning just in time to see the short list for this year’s Mercury Prize – awarded...
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Blur turn 21, clearly believe adage about leaving a beautiful corpse. In a box.
FacebookIf you accept that Damon Albarn is speaking truth and that these are the end times for Blur, you have to admit they’re doing it right. They’ve got their August 12 date at Hyde Park in London...
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Richard Hawley gets view of Mercury from Sky’s Edge
FacebookThe twelve album shortlist for the 2012 Mercury Prize, awarded to the best – by whatever standard the judges choose to use – British or Irish album of the past twelve months was announced...
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RIP, Jon Brookes of The Charlatans
thecharlatans.netSad, sad news out of the UK yesterday when it was announced that Jon Brookes, drummer and founding member of The Charlatans, had passed away of brain cancer. The condition first...
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“Wir fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn”, or, “I’m going to Germany, bye...
Emil SchultWhy yes, it is another deck-clearing, pre-vacation post. Bit of a Euro theme to this one because I am headed over to the Old World tonight, spending the next week and a bit in Berlin and...
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Review of The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone
Shane MeadowsI didn’t respond terribly enthusiastically when The Stone Roses announced their equally inevitable and improbable reunion in October 2011, my fixation on their reputation as a patchy live...
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