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Spiritualized: Everything in its Right Space

Jason Pierce has this clever go-to riff when faced with the suggestion that his lyrics are overwhelmingly autobiographical. It’s certainly not a stretch to come to such assumptions over a canon so mired in self-destruction and dripping with narcotica.
“I say in every interview that when you listen to Ray Charles singing, ‘I Can’t Stop Loving [...]

June 4th, 2008 | Continued
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Bloody Social: Who Needs Labels Anyway?

Bloody Social is a downtown NYC act that plays by their own rules, without feeling the need to cozy up to a coddling publicity rep or bow down to the first label throwing them a bone. They might just be one of the few real rock and roll bands based in this glitzier-by-the-minute city. For [...]

June 4th, 2008 | Continued
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Supergrass: Lasting like Diamonds

Life is confusing, and the UK’s super-darlings known as Supergrass are the first to admit it. In fact, their latest album, Diamond Hoo Ha, applauds that fact. As drummer Danny Goffey describes the loose concept behind the release, “You’re never quite in control of what you’re doing. We’ve all got calamities and stuff but you’ve [...]

June 4th, 2008 | Continued
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Switches Are At Full Tilt

This young UK act has no need to switch it on. They’re already on fire, stirring up our stages and television screens across America. Not only have they already played Jimmy Kimmel Live, but their single “Drama Queen” is the theme to the MTV show Legally Blonde: The Search for the Next Elle Woods and [...]

June 4th, 2008 | Continued
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The Long Blondes: A Fashionable Day Job

It’s hard to believe it’s been three years since I chatted to the Long Blondes in the swanky depths of the Tribeca Grand Hotel (when Saturday nights meant hot new bands and free champagne!) Time has flown and Sheffield’s boy-girl quintet have gone from being “the UK’s best unsigned band” to a favorite among critics [...]

June 4th, 2008 | Continued
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Calvin Harris: A Dance from Kylie Minogue to Coachella

Bound for a flight to sunny LA from gloomy Glasgow, Calvin Harris seemed ready for a hectic weekend playing gigs in California, Coachella and a sold-out gig at NYC’s Webster Hall. After wowing the UK with his debut I Created Disco and collaborating with some of dance-pop’s hottest names (think Kylie and Sophie Ellis-Bextor) it [...]

June 4th, 2008 | Continued
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Tilly and the Wall: Children of the Rock

Remembering to be a kid is a huge part of rock. The Who made an anthem out of it. Kurt Cobain had a ‘k’ tattooed on his arm. Kids know what’s up, largely because they don’t know what ‘up’ is yet. Tilly and the Wall’s guitarist Derek Presnall elaborates, “People tend to focus on the [...]

June 4th, 2008 | Continued
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The Futureheads: Radio Reception and Rapidity

Swiftly whisking their listener from one song to the next, The Futureheads third album This Is Not The World illuminates the rapidity of bombastic punk through the music, each song lasting roughly three minutes, as well as the prompt recording technique. The Futureheads eliminated time to modify and potentially damage their original creativity by recording [...]

June 4th, 2008 | Continued

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