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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Singersongwriterobit: Jesse Winchester

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Jesse Winchester, Memphis born singer-songwriter, has died . Winchester crossed the border to dodge the draft, and lived 35 years in Canad...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Apple worried, reckons Billboard

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It turns out that the only people in the world who are surprised by the weak start for iTunes Radio are people at Apple who, according to Bi...

Kittens robbed by Kylie

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Oh, the strange spikes in the road of history. What might have been, had Ferdinand taken a different route; had Hitler's paintings not b...
Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Kings Of Leon gigs kinda like an embrace from Typhoid Mary

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As if the exposure to pig-ignorance and sexism at a Kings Of Leon gig wasn't bad enough, if you went to see the band parp through their...

Jessie J resigns her bisexuality

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Obviously, people's sexuality can change over their lifetime - both in terms of what they find attractive, and in how they choose to def...
Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Gigwise asks the important question

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"Where are the stars of Britpop now" asks Gigwise, with the answer coming back that they're mostly all over BBC TV and radio t...
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Obit: Peaches Geldof

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You might not think it from the acres of rolling news and tabloid coverage, but there's not much to say about the death of Peaches Geldo...

Scarlett Johansson accidentally insults everyone from Madonna to James Arthur*

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Oh, Scarlett, how could you? : The 29-year-old beauty stuns on the May cover of Glamour magazine in which the expectant actress opens up a...
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Monday, April 07, 2014

Music project evicted for playing music

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An project in a Brighton pub which brought together local people keen to play music is being kicked out for, erm, playing music: Cat Duval...

Bookmarks: Kurt Cobain

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There's an interesting and timely bit from The Observer's readers' editor about how the media cover the anniversary of Kurt Coba...
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Aston Merrygold's jape backfires

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Aston Merrygold came up with a jolly jape for April Fools' Day: he made up some phone numbers and tweeted them , claiming they were the ...
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Sunday, April 06, 2014

Zutons, Coral, Summertyme against fracking

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There's plans afoot to smash the bedrock of Wirral to pieces in order to release some fossil fuels, because if we don't burn that ga...

The Kings Of Leon are cocks

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Kings Of Leon want women to get their tits out at their shows : Caleb Followill said: ''We're up there pouring our hearts out a...

This week just gone

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Naver can say goodbye: The most popular No Rock pages according to Naver: 1. Justin Bieber was a child once, says website which believes h...
Saturday, April 05, 2014

Bookmarks: Damon Albarn

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It's a pity that Damon Albarn's grumpy-old-manning about the internet is the bit that The Quietus are pushing on Twitter (ironic, gi...

In case you missed it...

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Here's all of yesterday's famous-ish musicians writing about the deaths of more famous musicians in the Guardian boiled down: Cha...
Friday, April 04, 2014

Embed and Letterman: Sleater-Kinney

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"Okay, okay, we get it, there's a lot of bands who've played Letterman. Make it stop now." Fair enough, but one last dip...

Embed and Letterman: Vampire Weekend

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There's a limit to the room to say anything interesting ahead of these video clips, giving they all come from the same programme: [P...

Embed and Letterman: The Bangles

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This is from something like 1945. The Bangles doing Hero Takes A Fall: [Part of Embed and Letterman ]

Embed and Letterman: Luscious Jackson

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More up to date now, with a November 2013 performance from Luscious Jackson: [Part of Embed and Letterman ]

Embed and Letterman: Pulp

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Late-night American television audiences getting introduced to the concept of rich students from St Martins slumming it: [Part of Embed ...

Embed and Letterman: Guided By Voices

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GBV. 2012. [Part of Embed and Letterman ]

Embed and Letterman: Pink

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Something a little poppier now, although not that much poppier, as Pink turns up in her teen goth mode to do Family Portrait: [Part of E...

Embed and breakfast man: Blur

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It's easy to forget that Blur once did pop music instead of making cheese and running for council. Back in 1999, they did this version o...

Embed and Letterman: Sonic Youth

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1992 was something of a great year for Dave. Here he is, young looking and introducing Sonic Youth: (There's a less wobbly, but unsh...

Embed and Letterman: Alabama Shakes

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From a couple of years back, Alabama Shakes: [Part of Embed and Letterman ]

Embed and Letterman: David Bowie

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Here's a poorly-dressed Bowie from the start of the century, pushing the Heathen album and talking about the internet: Enough talkin...

Embed and Letterman: Pixies (2)

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So, Letterman had the Pixies on when they reformed. Which is good, but he also had them on first time round. Here they are in 1992: [P...

Embed and breakfast man: Letterman

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With David Letterman announcing his retirement, it's worth recalling that American TV isn't just losing a programme which mined a se...

Downloadable: Stacey

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So around about Christmas last year, Stacey released her first ep. It sounded like this: Which is great. There's more, though, as sh...
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