Track Exclusive - The Sonic Aesthetic, 'Mendicant Adventures'
The Sonic Aesthetic is Mark Barrott, an electronic composer based in Ibiza by way of Sheffield, Uruguay and Berlin.The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and Steve Reic...
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The Best Of Transmusicales 2012
France's Transmusicales festival is a thing of pure beauty. Situated in Rennes, the notorious new music behemoth returned for its 33rd year last month. The gist of it? We...
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BMG scores rights to Nirvana songs
BMG has acquired the worldwide rights to several music catalogues, a deal that will give it songs from artists including Kurt Cobain, Tears for Fears, The Human League, ...
→ 21 December 2012 7.48pm — Comment on this
Old music: Depeche Mode – See You
Conventional wisdom held that boys weren't supposed to like early Depeche Mode. Conventional wisdom was wrong Reading on mobile? Watch hereWhen I was in my mid-teens in t...
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The Clarke
Vince Clarke (Depeche Mode, Yazoo etc) and Martyn Ware (The Human League, Heaven 17) released two albums on Mute, Pretentious (1999) and Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle (2001),...
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Live music booking now
Depeche Mode | Evanescence | Of Monsters And MenIn case you missed it Depeche Mode took a leaf out of Girls Aloud's book and announced a tour via a much-hyped press confe...
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New band of the day: The Winter Olympics (No 1,368)
Indie revivalists who namecheck Cantona and Sega but seem to be trying too hard to spoof too many thingsReading this on a mobile? Click here to listenHometown: London.The...
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New band of the day – Child Actor (No 1,358)
Forget the are-they-aren't-they thing – Child Actor are cousins. But the melodies and concentration on affairs of the heart place them in the Dare/Rumours lineage, ...
→ 25 September 2012 5.50pm — Comment on this
Mantle Sound Core: About Me (feat. Anastasia Gera)
Watch the new Mantle Sound Core video for About Me . Once again the San Francisco outfit with a soft spot for analog synthesizers, invited Russian singer Anastasia Ger...
→ 25 September 2012 4.03pm — Comment on this
Talking Heads – This Must Be The Place (Viceroy Remix)
Recently I’ve spent some time re-visiting old favorites – New Order, Fleetwood Mac, Hall & Oates, Talking Heads, Human League, etcetc. They’re all group...
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New band of the day – Mykki Blanco (No 1,348)
Michael Quattlebaum's female rapper alter ego suggests some kind of cross between Diamanda Galas and Marilyn MansonReading on mobile? Listen hereHometown: New York.The li...
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Maxine Peake on making music with added witchcraft
From Shameless to Shakespeare, the TV actor has always done her own thing, and now that means a concept album about 17th-century magicLancashire's witch country lies a fe...
→ 25 August 2012 12.05am — Comment on this
New band of the day – No 1,314: Leverage Models
Summoning the spirit of Spandau Ballet and Talk Talk, Shannon Fields has set all controls to replicate the sound of 1982Reading on mobile? Listen hereHometown: Missouri.T...
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Bob Geldof - British Festival Axed Over Weather Concerns
A British festival featuring acts including Bob Geldof and The Human League has been axed at the last minute due to extreme weather conditions Beverley Knight pop rockers...
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New band of the day: Petite Noir (No 1,297)
Never mind the grammar, here's a South African artist making music that is genuinely striking and – just possibly – uniqueHometown: Cape Town, South Africa.Th...
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