As Elizabeth Fraser announces she's joining the Meltdown lineup, we'd like to hear your thoughts on her former bandElizabeth Fraser, singer in much-loved 4AD band Cocteau...
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Planningtorock and Cocteau Twins' Liz Fraser on London festival bill
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A group biography of independent labelsBack when I should have been studying for my O-levels, I, like a lot of earnest teenagers and bedroom bards in the 1980s, spent muc...
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This Oakland rap duo's free mixtapes are so good, we can't wait to hear what they sound like when they get paidHometown: North Oakland, California.The lineup: Squadda B a...
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Darkness-looming Italian gothic metal belters Lacuna Coil are back for their sixth go-round, Dark Adrenaline. Dropping January 24 via their longtime home Century Media...
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Alexis Petridis picks his highlights of the year aheadKing Creosote and Jon HopkinsOne of 2011's low-key delights was Diamond Mine, the Mercury-nominated collaboration be...
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This 'gnarly version of Enya' veers between acoustica and atmospherica – but it's definitely a case of the weirder the betterHometown: London.The lineup: Astrud Ste...
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This free download was anything but throwaway. The chillwave-tinged R&B spoke of codeine, cold sex and pills … and invited you to luxuriate in Abel Tesfaye's hearta...
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Director of Mysterious Skin and Kaboom is keeping indie pop alive by featuring new music and remixes by his favourite bandsThis week sees the DVD release of two films fro...
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Does it matter if this London band's miasmic music is a retread of a copy of a facsimile? Not when it sounds this good ...Hometown: London.The lineup: Thom Hill (guitar),...
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Com Truise is one of the many personas of producer and designer Seth Haley,.Listen to Com Truise - Galactic Melt, released on June 14thCom Truise is one of the man...
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It’s easy to think of dubstep as its own fully evolved form, as though the off-kilter child of drum & bass and 2-step garage was born in one epic bass drop, written...
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Today's guest posting is from a new Sunday Correspondent....but someone who has posted before.Readers from way back will hopefully recall that all of May 2009 and part o...
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