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Bear In Heaven may be coming to town sporting a Stereo-Fork seal of approval, but tonight the New Yorkers are given a serious run for their money by Dublin-based support band Halves. The latter... Artist page:
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Let’s get this out of the way, shall we? Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin have perhaps the worst name in music. Despite (or perhaps because of) this, they briefly became blog darlings... Artist page: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
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Peddlers of some of the most towering guitarscapes around, Montrealers The Besnard Lakes... Artist page:
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Here at Ragged Words, we were rather smitten with Fight Like Apes’ quirky, witty and nearly... Artist page: Fight Like Apes
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Women’s self-titled debut, released in North America in 2008 and our side of the pond early last year, was an... Artist page: Women
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Having released one of the finest albums of the year so far, great things are now expected from former Czars... Artist page:
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“In many ways this is a record of what could have been, a snapshot of an artist mid-evolution.” (El-P) Camu Tao’s first and sadly last solo record, King Of Hearts,... Artist page:
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Springfield Missouri foursome Someone Still Love You Boris Yeltsin released their third record Let It... Artist page: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
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Now essentially a byword for forward-thinking leftfield music, the Bay Area anticon collective has been striving since before the turn of the century to... Artist page:
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 Up until last year’s Willie Nelson covers record, To Willie, Phosphorescent – essentially the recording... Artist page: Phosphorescent
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Two albums that have really caught this writer's ear of late were released on the same label (Captured Tracks), on the same day (May 24) and for a short pre-sale period, available on sexy,... Artist page:
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Andrew Phillips has some CV. When he's not making glitchy, dreamy electronica as Grasscut, or indeed playing keyboards for Faithless side-project of sorts One Giant Leap, he's paying the bills by... Artist page:
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Ah, the ‘difficult’ third album. Welcome to Make Or Break Time, and tonight your contestants will be Arcade Fire, fresh from clearing a field at this summer’s Oxegen festival,... Artist page: Arcade Fire
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Debut albums so rarely come as complete as She Was Coloured In, the first effort from Irish electro duo Solar Bears that has had Ragged... Artist page:
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If any band deserve to step up and play a 1,500-capacity venue, it’s Field Music. The Wearside boys released one of the best albums of the last decade - considered so by both ourselves and a poll of fellow artists; their latest record Field Music (Measure)...
It turns out Caribou will not only be taking one of the finest albums of this year out on the road over the next three months - starting with this weekend's Electric Picnic and Offset Festivals - but will also be selling a limited double vinyl live album and DVD of his ensemble show at last years NYC ATP festival.
Dan Snaith says:
"In September 2009 the Flaming Lips invited us to play at the All...
Underrated Baltimore three-piece Celebration will release their new album Hello Paradise - their third and first post-4AD effort - via their local Friends imprint on December 7. However the band will give away all the songs in the months before the album comes out on vinyl gatefold packaging.
The album is part of a project called Electric Tarot, where each song represents a card in...
Pound-for-pound, we reckon the Sunday of this year’s Electric Picnic might just boast the strongest lineup of the weekend. Alongside big names like The Fall, Massive Attack and Fever Ray there are plenty of lesser-known acts who’ll be looking to close out the festival in style. The likes of Dâm-Funk &...
