Music Features
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The Man from Anacortes: An Interview with Phil Elverum
Phil Elverum, the man previously responsible for The Microphones and now principle curator of Mount Eerie, answers some question for No Ripcord's Joshua Pickard concerning his upcoming album, Ocean Roar, and why he's so surprised that anyone would care what he sings at karaoke.
Anacortes is lovely this time of year... -
Park:Live Festival - We Are Scientists (Interview)
After an electric headline set at Gloucester's Park:Live festival, Chris Cain from We Are Scientists (centre of picture) chats to Craig Stevens about the band's upcoming new album, sleeping onboard tour buses and Leipzig.
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Park:Live Festival - Jen Long (BBC Radio 1) (Interview)
In the first of two interviews from the inaugural Park:Live festival in Gloucester, Craig Stevens chats to compere, BBC Radio 1 DJ Jen Long.
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The Singles Bar - 30th July 2012
At the start of the Olympic fortnight, we review the national anthems of over 200 competing nations. Or, perhaps, we review ten of the week's biggest singles. Which do you think it is?
Joe Rivers is here once again... -
The No Ripcord Guide to... PJ Harvey
The multi-award winning Devonian is one of the most interesting and beguiling artists of her generation. Let No Ripcord guide you through her varied back catalogue, giving you the details from each of her studio albums.
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The Troubled Genius of Phil Spector
In another piece examining the difficulty of separating the art from the artist, Angel Aguilar takes us through the life of Phil Spector, from early days as a teen idol up to the notorious event which sees him behind bars today.
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The Singles Bar - 23rd July 2012
One writer, ten new singles, one weekly column. Surely you know the drill by now?
Joe Rivers takes up his usual position... -
Latitude Festival 2012
Latitude might be tucked away by the coast in the woods in Suffolk but for one weekend a year it becomes overwhelmingly stuffed with the quintessence of festival experience - but with such an unmissable musical lineup who'd have time to explore?
Stephen Wragg is still cleaning off the mud... -
The Singles Bar - 16th July 2012
Did you miss us? After a week's holiday, The Singles Bar returns, and it's a bumper-sized edition packed with even more musical goodness than you could reasonably expect from a Monday. We treat you right, we really do.
Joe Rivers is at the wheels of steel... -
Top 100 Albums of 2000-2009 (Part Seven: 20-1)
In the final part of the biggest feature in No Ripcord history, we reveal our top 20 albums of the 00s.
Find out what made the cut (and argue about what didn't) here...
