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You should Be Watching the Coachella Re-broadcast

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With all this Readng and Glastonbury announcement nonsense, I totally forgot about Coachella, until (honestly) last night. I hope on this morning to the happy discovery that Coachella are generously re-broadcasting the acts that have already played for their lovely internet friends. I decided to see what was being broadcast on their three available channels, [...]

The Underground: Common Grackle – The Great Depression

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Welcome to The Underground (or Notes from the Underground if you’re a Dostoyevsky nerd), a weekly segment in which I examine the very best in unsigned, undiscovered and underground music. It’s my goal to highlight and hopefully promote talented artists who have yet to receive the attention they deserve. If you know (or are!) a [...]

The Underground: Building Rockets – Songs from a Bowery Orchestra EP

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Welcome to The Underground (or Notes from the Underground if you’re a Dostoyevsky nerd), a weekly segment in which I examine the very best in unsigned, undiscovered and underground music. It’s my goal to highlight and hopefully promote talented artists who have yet to receive the attention they deserve. If you know (or are!) a [...]

The King Blues break up

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The six-piece London band, whose latest album Punk & Poetry was released in 2011, announced today they would be splitting up via their website. The band state on their site they are “immensely proud of their body of work”, that they have “taken things as far as they can go”, do not want “to go [...]

Adele Tops Pink Floyd in Best-Selling UK Albums List

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Adele’s second album, 21, has just eclipsed (aha) Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon in the UK’s all-time best-selling albums list, according to The Official Charts Company. This news comes only a few weeks after the album outsold Michael Jackson’s Bad. So far, the album has sold over 4.14 million copies in the UK, [...]

Efterklang to premiere new album at Sydney Opera House

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Efterklang are back! The enormous band is working on their first album since their 2010 release Magic Chairs currently, titled Pirimada. The band revealed on their website today that on May 26th they will be performing all new content live at the Sydney Opera House. That’s not all though – the band are set to [...]

Reading Festival 2012 Lineup Announced

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By some miracle, the lineup wasn’t leaked this year, and after much speculation the 2012 Reading Festival lineup has just been announced! If you were lucky enough to be at one of many HMV stores across the UK, then I suspect you already have your ticket. For the rest of us, they’re on sale now!  [...]

Why You Should Be Ecstatic About Mad Men’s Return

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It’s the best show on Television. No, don’t worry, I’m not going to count that in the list (but I’m also not going to count that as hyperbole), though I do feel like I had to get it off my chest nice and early. Seriously though, don’t worry, I’m keeping this list gravely serious. Mad [...]