This gradiloquent 20-year-old performs what is basically one long emotional outburst about the calamitous effects of loveHometown: Tacoma, Washington.The lineup: Brad Obe...
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Before Simple Minds went stadium rock, they made 'serious, dark music' that influenced the Manics and Primal Scream. Now they're returning to their rootsA couple of years...
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Success ruined Simple Minds, with an abruptness almost unparalleled in popular music. It’s best to remember them this way. Read the full story on DrownedinSou...
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Don't you forget about them...
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Before their pursuit of world domination turned them rubbish, Simple Minds were capable of transcendent beauty – as this 1982 track attestsThere's a whole PhD thesi...
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Heaven, LondonThe disparity between the way M83 leader Anthony Gonzalez looks (like he should be modelling Calvin Klein underwear) and the way he sounds (epic) is one of...
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Simple Minds are pleased to announce a very rare and exciting opportunity to see them perform material from their first five albums at four intimate UK venues, in Febr...
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Those Southend kraut-goths The Horrors aren't just snobby fans of Can, Bauhaus and Simple Minds, no siree, they've taken their crate-digging hands and reworked Gaga's 'Bl...
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Friendly Fires, On tourFriendly Fires are a band whose music is flying through the 1980s. Having started with streamlined punk-funk, full of wild drumming and guitar thra...
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The Horrors could be poised to move into anthemic mode. But given the fate of their predecessors, should they bother?A British band reaches its third or fourth album. The...
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(XL)When they first skulked into the limelight in 2007, the Horrors did not appear to be built to last. Even fans of their scabrous, 60s-inflected debut, Strange House, i...
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You don't have to play spot the influences to enjoy the Horrors' new album, writes Dorian LynskeyIn his new book, Retromania, the critic Simon Reynolds revisits his damni...
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July 1982: Number 39 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of world and folk musicPeter Gabriel could be accused of many things in the course of his career, b...
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The Horrors, On tourIt was obvious when they appeared on NME's cover in 2006 in Victorian gaoler chic that the Horrors had something, although what that might be wasn't c...
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