The Deer Tracks – The Brevity Interview

Sweden’s Deer Tracks are one of those bands that are nigh-on impossible to pin down. The dynamic duo of Elin Lindfors and David Lehnberg are purveyors a magical, colourful swirl of melodies,...

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Supersonic Festival 2011 – Update

Its time for the day tickets/line ups to be announced for this year's festival (though the exact times have yet to be released). Additionally, Supersonic have announced two more musicians to the...

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Pure X – Pleasure

Summer echoes… Don’t you just loathe the term shoegaze? As far as categorisations go, you can’t get much lazier than trying to sum up a band’s entire raison d’etre by...

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MOGWAI – ‘Earth Division’ EP released today

Arch weirdos MOGWAI release their latest quizzical opus.  Having thus far enjoyed a monumental year, with a sold out world tour and the release of the superb and critically acclaimed 7th studio...

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Make Better Music 58: Go Where the Barriers Are

The idea is simple - things that are easy to do can be done by more people than things that are hard. You want to make your music available as a “self release” via a service like bandcamp? Go for...

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Summon the Crows – One More For the Gallows

Growling through concrete Norsk pounders test the rope.  'One More For the Gallows' is the second full-length album by the Norwegian band Summon the Crows.  The album contains 10...

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Winter – Into Darkness

A fingernail through the cellophane, Winter lets out the night.  Originally released in 1990 and widely considered to be a cult classic, Into Darkness from New York outfit Winter is now being...

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Talvihorros – Descent Into Delta

Hypnotic? Delta guitar driven purges by ascending maestro.  The term 'hypnotic' is one that is bandied about far too often in music reviews, a kind of catch-all term for any number of...

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Bong – Beyond Ancient Space

Beyond Ancient Space is the most recent release from  Psychedelic Minimalist Doom band Bong. Many people believe a bands name should be a reflection on their music and with Bong, you can pretty...

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Our-Merica 5: Imaginings of America

"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected." – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Images By Our Bartlett....

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Gauntlet Hair’s Free download! Top Bunk.

Gauntlet Hair's Self-Titled Debut Due October 17. Download Free MP3 For "Top Bunk". Over the last year and a half, Gauntlet Hair has seen its noise-pop anthems released on 7"s...

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Stateless – I’m on Fire EP

Symphonic electronica and beguiling voices – 'I'm on Fire' feeds the spirit. There really is a lot of range on this five-track EP. Hell, there's more range in each one of the...

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Make Better Music 57: Counterpoint

I regard writing fine counterpoint as a bit of a lost art. In some ways it’s largely redundant in todays music, where single ideas right up front are generally king. This is not any kind of rant...

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Sonisphere, UK 2011: Giant Slayer Or Fish Out Of Water?

This years Sonisphere Festival at Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, boasted one of the greatest line-ups I have ever seen at any British music festival. With their highly anticipated first ever visit...

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Our-Merica 4: Imaginings of America

"I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear." – John Kerry Images By Our Bartlett....

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Ultra-Thatcherite Ultra-Violence

As even Britain's kleptocratic party leaders have now been forced to admit, various modes of corruption and anti-social criminality are not confined to gangs or underclasses. Context There's...

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Bloodstock 2011

Blinded by the righteous black Bloodstock 2011 gathers the tribes. ...

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Make Better Music 56: Celebrating the Old

I wonder how it feels to be making music after fifty or even sixty active years. Some people have gone on even longer - Elliot Carter is about to turn 103 and is still an active composer - what can...

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The Deer Tracks- The Archer Trilogy Part 2

When is Pop not pop? Swedish duo The Deer Tracks are an unusual proposition, blending hook-laden, high-gloss pop with glitchy folktronica and esoteric sonic constructions. Though crafting tunes that...

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Jono McCleery – There Is

Jono McCleery delivers a classic album in There Is. SBTRKT, Jamie Woon, hell, even Radiohead. The fan of beguiling male vocals set against beats is suddenly well-catered for. Jono McCleery's...

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David Lynch threatens to release whole album

Visionary filmmaker David Lynch will make his solo debut as a musical artist this fall with Crazy Clown Time. With his previous efforts being rather shaky it's a wonder what this latest grouping...

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Our-Merica 3: Imaginings of America

"This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do." – Jack Kerouac, On the Road Images By Our Bartlett. http://www.ourbartlett.co.uk...

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Life in an Age of Looting: London 2011

Life in an Age of Looting: "Some Will Rob You with a Sixgun and Some with a Fountain Pen" As the poor of Britain rise in a fury of inchoate rage and stock exchanges worldwide experience...

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Make Better Music 55: Back to Basics

Imbue your music with your passion. If you don’t have a passion for making music, then leave it to those who do. Fill your music to the brim with all the emotion, drive, energy, love, enthusiasm...

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The Paper Doll Militia: Aerial Theatre

No Strings Attached: Nomadic performers bring aerial theatre to new heights. Aerial theatre which blends mystery, childlike wonder, technical mastery and whimsical beauty The Paper Doll Militia work...

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Disorder is key to nanotube mystery: Water into wine

Caltech researchers find that disorder is key to nanotube mystery. Scientists often find strange and unexpected things when they look at materials at the nanoscale—the level of single atoms and...

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Looking for Causes of Teenage Alienation: See Television

For proof that rejection, exclusion, and acceptance are central to our lives, look no farther than the living room, says Nathan Dewall, a psychologist at the University of Kentucky.  "If...

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Bending Frames: The Sculpture of Henry Moore at Hatfield

Anthropomorphic forms and reclining figures appear as you  gaze over mazes and walk down leafy ceiling-ed pathways, wandering through different garden worlds; this weekend I went back to my...

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Superscience: Effortless sailing with fluid flow cloak

Duke engineers have already shown that they can "cloak" light and sound, making objects invisible — now, they have demonstrated the theoretical ability to significantly increase the...

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Our-Merica 2: Imaginings of America

"In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything." – Jeffery F. Chamberlain. Images By Our Bartlett. http://www.ourbartlett.co.uk...

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