The debut album by Minneapolis band Poliça ‘Give You The Ghost’ is proper bo, I tell thee. Poliça came onto my radar because the band includes two members of Gayngs (vocalist Channy Leaneagh and producer Ryan Olson) whose 2010 album Relayted was one of my favourites of the year. Bon Iver’s Mike Noyce has also done some vocals on the album. Not dissimilar to Gayngs,
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I’ve become mildly obsessed with an obscure record label from New Jersey called ‘Italians Do It Better’. Their artists include Chromatics, Glass Candy, Desire and Symmetry. Tweet
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Following on from part 1, I’m looking back at the indie / Britpop compilation album ‘Shine 5′. Shine was a mid-late 90′s indie compilation series. There were ten Shine albums, but the 1996 released 5th installment was the one I played over and over and over. What happened to the 41 bands featured on the album? Let’s take a look at the bands from CD2.
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Whilst enjoying a late night brandy or two with my friend The TV Philes recently, we reminisced about the indie rock / Britpop era and specifically about one compilation album ‘Shine 5′. Shine was a mid-late 90′s indie compilation series. There were ten Shine albums, but the 1996 released 5th installment was the one I played over and over and over. So what happened to
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Recently the song by Gotye ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ has been stuck like glue in my head. It’s a cracking pop song and it reached number 1 in the UK charts. I had no idea about its chart success until a friend mentioned it to me. I never listen to Radio 1, watch MTV or pay much attention to any other medium associated
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It has been a while since the upcoming release of an album has made me giddy with excitement. But M83′s Anthony Gonzalez has been true to his musical style and given us a tantalisingly long build up to his latest release. It’s finally here, the double album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. Tweet
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The Nextmen last night played a live DJ set at Leeds’ A Nation Of Shopkeepers. Having not seen a live hip hop set for ages it was easy to forget how much fun it is to wave your hands in the air like you just don’t care. The Nextmen played a really fun set rooted in hip hop but with a mixture of pop, reggae,
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