(Tender Age)If Beat Connection’s first full-length album had appeared two weeks ago, it would have gone down like a barbecue in November in soggy, gloomy Britain. Now, though, summer’s belated arrival makes their sunny electronic sounds ideal. Waves of…
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Beat Connection: The Palace Garden – review
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Redd Kross: Researching the Blues – review
(Sweet Nothing/Cargo)In 2012, the notion of Redd Kross – a guitar band with a dogged devotion to past forms – seems wildly conservative. But these Los Angelenos were once a supremely post-modernist band, backing their knowing, pop-culture-referenci…
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Why piracy is perpetuating plastic pop
Rather than helping to create a rock’n'roll revolution, the unwillingness to pay for music means more assembly-line artistsEver since Lars Ulrich and his band Metallica experienced a massive public backlash for suing Napster, artists have been wary of …
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Music Weekly podcast: Teenage Fanclub’s Gerry Love and Soundway Records
We’ve got beats and pieces from all around the world this week, with Ben Beaumont-Thomas joining Alexis and Kieran in the studio.Ben has been mining the Soundway label’s catalogue, and speaks to label boss Miles Cleret about the trade routes of music â…
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