Music Features
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NR+1: Our Brand New Quarterly Magazine
This weekend No Ripcord celebrates fifteen years of music writing, but we're not looking backwards. Today we are proud to open a new chapter in our history with the launch of a brand new sister publication, NR+1. And we think you're going to like it.
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Competition: Win Bestival Merchandise & Book
To celebrate our 15th birthday we've teamed up with one of the UK's premier festivals, Bestival, for this exciting competition.
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Happy Anniversary... Parklife
Blur's third album is not only the highlight of a career of highlights. It is also the seminal Britpop album and one of the best releases from the 1990s. With sixteen songs that refuse to stay still or fit into any boxes, this is the sound of a band trying its absolute hardest, and their work certainly pays off.
Joe Marvilli still isn't exactly sure what the word 'parklife' means... -
No Ripcord Presents...Mock Suns
No Ripcord kicks off its album stream initiative with Mock Suns' sophomore studio album Santander/All That I Knew.
Stream their latest record a week in advance... -
Happy Anniversary... Doolittle
As the Pixies classic turns 25, Carl Purvis looks at why Doolittle still endures, quarter of a century on.
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Slint's Spiderland Box Set
Spiderland, the 1991 landmark release from Louisville, Kentucky quartet Slint, is reissued as an extended boxset with a feature length documentary.
Sean Caldwell listened and watched and listened some more... -
Digitalism (Interview)
In advance of a headline set at London's Village Underground on April 19, Digitalism's Jens “Jence” Moelle talks to Craig Stevens about the group's relationship with their label Kitsuné, the wave of electronic music sweeping the US and UK, and the legend that is the Palermo Disko Machine.
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Overlooked Albums #36: The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.
Bad pressings, infighting, drug addiction - a tale of "what could have been" from the nearly-men of punk.
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Lady Lamb The Beekeeper (Interview)
Lady Lamb The Beekeeper's debut album has garnered a lot of buzz since it came out at the start of 2013. No Ripcord spoke over the phone with the project's mastermind as sole member, Aly Spaltro, about Ripley Pine, touring and what's next.
Joe Marvilli chats with the creator of one of 2013's best debuts... -
Happy Anniversary... Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Believe it or not, it's now been twenty years since Aphex Twin released his seminal collection. Even harder to believe, upon release, it made #11 in the UK album chart.
Luiza Lodder has the skinny...
