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Video of the Morning: Gravenhurst

By Stewart Mason

A late nightcap or early-morning eyeopener

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Meantime

Kwes

Taking pop to new places

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Music Feature

Classic Video of the Week: China Crisis

By Stewart Mason

Great song, terrible video, cool cassette player.

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Video of the Day: The Vapors

By Stewart Mason

Waiting for the weekend indeed

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Beatles first American show hits theaters this month

By Chris Payne

Debuting May 6 at NYC's Ziegfeld Theater

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Video of the Day: The June Brides

By Stewart Mason

UK indie cult heroes reunite!

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Video of the Day: The Primitives

By Stewart Mason

Blonde-Pop superstar Tracy Tracy returns

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Video of the Day: Squeeze on Ellen

By Stewart Mason

Seriously, dude, what's with the beard?

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Mashup of the Day: Whole Lotta Helter Skelter

By Stewart Mason

New blood in a dying form

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English Beat reissues announced

By Stewart Mason

It's about time!

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Video of the Day: Spiritualized

By Michael Wojtas

Top of the pops indeed

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Video of the Day: Prinzhorn Dance School

By T. Cole Rachel

Prinzhorn wants you

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Music Feature

Classic Video of the Week: Echo and the Bunnymen

By Stewart Mason

Happy Easter From Liverpool!

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Covers of the Day: The Vaccines and R. Stevie Moore

By Stewart Mason

Record Store Day split 7-inch

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Music Review

World, You Need a Change of Mind

Kindness

World, you need Kindness.

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Video of the Day: The Wedding Present Live

By Stewart Mason

Full live set from SXSW

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Everything But The Girl reissues announced

By Stewart Mason

First four albums out June 4

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Music Feature

A Clockwork Mixtape

By Stewart Mason

Music from and inspired by A Clockwork Orange

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Video of the Day: Michael Kiwanuka

By Stewart Mason

UK singer-songwriter ramps up the buzz

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Culture News

Peter Blake reconstructs Sgt. Pepper sleeve

By Stewart Mason

80th birthday present to himself

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Damon Albarn previews new solo album

By Stewart Mason

"Strange pastoral folk" LP due May 7

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Track of the Day: Dexys

By Stewart Mason

Mercurial '80s popsters return

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Peter Hook plots legal action against New Order

By Chris Payne

Hooky vs. his ex-bandmates

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The Total Groovy

Various Artists

Pete Shelley's experimental-hippie side comes through.

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Sex Pistols bring back the Bollocks

By Stewart Mason

Flogging a dead horse, indeed.

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My Bloody Valentine to reissue EPs...supposedly

By Stewart Mason

Where are those remasters, anyway?

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John Peel's record collection to go online

By Stewart Mason

Beloved radio legend's personal archive.

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Video of the Day: Paul Weller, "That Dangerous Age"

By Stewart Mason

Bracing day-glo pop for men of a certain age.

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Adele gives the finger to the BRIT Awards

By Stewart Mason

We know how she feels.

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Blur to headline Olympic closing ceremony concert

By Stewart Mason

Reunited Britpoppers join the sporting set.

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28 Years Ago: The Smiths' debut LP released

By Stewart Mason

We've got everything now.

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Classic Video of the Week: Talk Talk

By Stewart Mason

Synth-poppers against lip-synching

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32 Years Ago: Elvis Costello Gets Happy!!

By Stewart Mason

New wave icon rediscovers soul.

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Public Image Ltd. preview reunion EP

By Stewart Mason

Post-punk's second act starts over.

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Paul Weller previews new single

By Stewart Mason

New album bows late next month.

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Wooden Shjips preview Andrew Weatherall remix

By Stewart Mason

US psychedelicists meet UK remix masters.

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The return of Killing Joke

By Stewart Mason

Apocalyptic Brits come back for more.

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Music Review

Clay Class

Prinzhorn Dance School

Taking pop minimalism to freaky new heights.

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Ester

Trailer Trash Tracys

Spacey British pop with a shoegaze haze.

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Culture News

BBC Radio 4 streams doc about new wave graphic legend Barney Bubbles

By Stewart Mason

Discovering the man behind the new wave myth.

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Music Critical Questions

Critical Questions: David Sylvian

By Jim Allen

Visionary musician talks collaboration.

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Music Review

Future This

The Big Pink

Brit rockers reach for the brass ring.

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Culture Review

The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011

Damien Hirst

Dots entertainment.

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St. Etienne get back to the dance floor

By Stewart Mason

UK indie-dance trio back after a long absence.

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UK singer-songwriter Jack Peñate returns

By Stewart Mason

Critical Mob fave ends long silence.

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A Grounding In Numbers

Van Der Graaf Generator

Prog pioneers reach maturity.

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Culture Review

Charles Dickens at 200

Charles Dickens

An exciting glimpse into a writer's world.

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Music Review

Lioness: Hidden Treasures

Amy Winehouse

A melancholy reflection on a too-short career.

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Life in the Loading Bay

Shriekback

U.K. post-punks’ late-career peak.

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Music Profile

The Canterbury Scene

By Jim Allen

Lovable left-field corner of the art-rock kingdom.

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Music Profile

Caravan

By Jim Allen

Puckish godfathers of the Canterbury scene.

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Hatfield and the North

By Stewart Mason

Relentlessly whimsical prog-rockers.

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Music Review

50 Words For Snow

Kate Bush

Art rock icon's finest work in a quarter-century.

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Gracious Tide, Take Me Home

Lanterns on the Lake

Wish Arcade Fire were a little more dramatic?

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Music Review

Scintilli

Plaid (band)

Half skittering dance beats, half meditative instrumentals.

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Enough Thunder

James Blake

Diffuse but intriguing follow-up EP.

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A Creature I Don't Know

Laura Marling

A gifted singer-songwriter comes into her own.

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Ancient and Modern

The Mekons

Transatlantic old hands' finest work in years.

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Parodia Flare

Tropics (band)

British producer's Fender Rhodes-driven electronic shimmer.

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Poet and the Dreamer

Neville Skelly

British swinger’s Coral-assisted turn towards pop.

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Skying

The Horrors

The Horrors, minus all that horror.

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Music Profile

John Wesley Harding

By Stewart Mason

Witty folk-rock songwriter by day, respected novelist at night.

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Suck It and See

Arctic Monkeys

Going bananas for classic rawk.

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Director's Cut

Kate Bush

The artist's prerogative writ large.

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Street of the Love of Days

Amor De Dias

Lovely surfaces mask unexpected musical and emotional depth

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Smother

Wild Beasts

Just as beastly, but much less wild.

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Return to the Ugly Side

Malachai

Carnaby Street-era freakbeat goes electro.

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Talahomi Way

The High Llamas

A lush tropical idyll.

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Music Review

Last

The Unthanks

Not their final album, despite the title.

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Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

Passionate songs about nationalism and war.

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Last Night On Earth

Noah and the Whale

UK folk-rockers aim for the charts and miss.

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Get Happy!!

Elvis Costello

Costello finds his soul.

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Yuck

Yuck (band)

Set the wayback machine to 1991 and enjoy.

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21

Adele

Promising follow-up hampered by too-safe choices.

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The King of Limbs

Radiohead

Not bad, but...

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Rolling Blackouts

The Go! Team

Playful Brits make up for lost time.

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Red Barked Tree

Wire (band)

A more mature, sophisticated Wire.

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Music Profile

Sonic Boom

By Sam LaCroix

Psychedelic upstart evolves into minimalist godfather.

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Music Review

Not Music

Stereolab

Electronic pioneers mop up on their way out.

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There Is Love In You

Four Tet

UK electro-guru delivers his best yet.

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Nothing Hurts

Male Bonding

Simple, fun, and fast indie guitar moves.

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Dream Attic

Richard Thompson

UK folk-rock monarch breaks out of his rut.

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History of Modern

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

1980s synth-popsters reunite to surprisingly good effect.

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Music Review

Dazzle Ships

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

UK synth-popsters' most challenging record.

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Everything and More

Dolly Mixture

Essential listening for fans of UK indie pop.

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Music Profile

Bryan Ferry

By Jim Allen

Roxy Music frontman and stylish solo artist.

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Squeeze

By Stewart Mason

The post-punk era's finest songwriting team.

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Minotaur

The Clientele

Indie heroes indulge their experimental side.

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Spiders

Space (band)

Gloriously odd retro-groovy Britpop.

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MAYA

M.I.A.

M.I.A. sounds bored...and boring.

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Tidings

Wolf People

Young Brits hit that psychedelic sweet spot.

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Further

The Chemical Brothers

Dance music duo regain their groove.

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The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music

Stereolab

The EP that changed everything.

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Total Life Forever

Foals

Oxford quintet create a more inviting second album.

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Travelling Like the Light

V.V. Brown

Striking debut from a talented pop singer-songwriter.

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Reading, Writing and Arithmetic

The Sundays

One of the early 1990s' most perfect albums.

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Plastic Beach

Gorillaz

Sifting through the detritus of modern civilization to create something… >>

Music Profile

Kevin Ayers

By Stewart Mason

Amiably eccentric art-rock singer-songwriter.

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Pulp

By Chris Payne

Oasis or Blur? How about Pulp?

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This Year's Model

Elvis Costello

The first of several masterpieces.

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Adventure Man

Eg White

Sharply crafted melodies call to mind everything from The Style… >>

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Duran Duran

By Jim Allen

The original New Romantics.

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The Chemical Brothers

By T. Cole Rachel

The progenitors of Big Beat.

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Half Man Half Biscuit

By Stewart Mason

DIY post-punks age surprisingly gracefully.

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The Cure

By T. Cole Rachel

Under the enormous hair and smeared lipstick lies a masterful… >>

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Hands

Little Boots

Early '80s synth pop in a thoroughly modern pure-pop context

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Little Boots

By Stewart Mason

Singer-keyboardist Victoria Hesketh cheekily updates classic early '80s synth pop

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Swoon

Prefab Sprout

A tremendously gifted songwriter gets all of his quirks out… >>

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Bonfires on the Heath

The Clientele

Wispy, dreamy psych-pop.

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Stereolab

By Stewart Mason

One of the most influential bands of the '90s.

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Nick Lowe

By Stewart Mason

From punk-era basher to rootsy crooner.

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Thomas Dolby

Often incorrectly thought of as a one-hit wonder, Thomas Dolby… >>

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Prefab Sprout

By Stewart Mason

A masterful singer-songwriter goes into hiding.

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Mark Ronson

By Jim Allen

Hitmaking producer with a recording career of his own.

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Robert Wyatt

By Stewart Mason

Prog-fusion drummer turned affecting singer-songwriter.

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