Music Features
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Quick Takes (June 2016)
In our ongoing Quick Takes feature, writers Juan Edgardo Rodríguez and Carl Purvis once again revisit a handful of albums that caught their attention during the past month.
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Second Chance Selection (January - June 2016)
In our annual Second Chance Selection feature, we stop at the year's midpoint and look back to consider some albums that may have slipped off our collective radar.
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The Rest Is Noise: A First-Time Festivalgoer Reports from Governor’s Ball
Brad Hanford attended New York City's annual Governor's Ball for the first time. These were his findings.
Brad Hanford reports from the trenches... -
Kate Jackson (Interview)
Kate Jackson, frontwoman with much-missed Sheffield five-piece, The Long Blondes, returns with her first album as a solo artist, British Road Movies. She talks to No Ripcord about the record's long gestation period, working with Bernard Butler, and the benefits of living in a small English market town.
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Free Again: the Story Behind Alex Chilton's "1970" Sessions
When the Box Tops split in 1970, Alex Chilton had enough songs to shop around major labels while he completed his last obligations as a Bell Records artist. The album was to be called "1970".
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Quick Takes (May 2016)
In our monthly Quick Takes feature, where we revisit a handful of notable albums we missed during the last month, Carl and Juan share their thoughts on new efforts by James Blake, PUP, Kaytranada, Gorguts, and many, many more.
Let James Blake's ominous gaze take you there... -
Tracking Force - 3
An eclectic mix this time around. But two classics nonetheless.
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Quick Takes (April 2016)
In our ongoing latest Quick Takes installment, where we revisit a handful of albums we missed during the last month, Carl and Juan share their thoughts on new efforts by Kevin Morby, The Last Shadow Puppets, Greys, The Field, and many, many more.
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Chris Cornell - Belfast, Ulster Hall. 24/04/2016
Chris Cornell shares stories, humour and thirty years of career-spanning material in an intimate performance.
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CLUSTER 1971-1981
While the notoriety enjoyed by the likes of their Krautrock peers, namely Kraftwerk, Neu!, and Tangerine Dream, seemed to elude Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius, two halves of the pioneering electronic duo, Cluster, a new box set documenting the group’s most creatively robust period will hopefully right that wrong.
Sean Caldwell reviews...
