Music Features
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The Singles Bar - 30th April 2012
Of all the columns that No Ripcord runs every Monday which look to provide short, snappy reviews of ten of the week's new releases, The Singles Bar is certainly up there with the best of them.
Joe Rivers really means it when he says that... -
NR13: No Ripcord Celebrates 13 Years
It's official: No Ripcord is now a teenager.
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Nathan Sykes - The Wanted (Interview)
Nathan Sykes, one-fifth of the hugely successful boy band The Wanted, gives an interview to Craig Stevens (pictured right). Find out what Nathan thinks are the biggest perks in being a pop star, the key to capitalising on the group's current popularity in the US, and Nathan's opinion on the role social media has played in The Wanted's success to date.
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The Singles Bar - 23rd April 2012
It's business as usual following Record Store Day and that can only mean one thing at No Ripcord - it's the return of The Singles Bar.
Joe Rivers is glad to see you too... -
RSD 2012: Staff Experiences
On Record Store Day, several NR staffers ventured into the wilds on expertly choreographed reconnaissance missions. Here, they report back with their experiences.
Vinyl was purchased and queues were endured... -
Record Store Day - Dispatches from Utica NY
Sound snippets from the front lines
Alan Shulman reports -
The Singles Bar - Record Store Day special
Saturday April 21 marks the sixth annual Record Store Day. A celebration of independent record stores, with over 400 special and rare releases. But which releases are most worthy of your hard-earned cash? A special edition of the Singles Bar is here to help you decide.
Craig Stevens guides you through a selection of releases... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Reimagined
William Shakespeare may not be the first person to come to mind when considering modern music but his influence upon our culture remains immeasurable. Here is an album which takes his sonnets and re-imagines them into modern form, with a renaissance twist.
Matt Bevington asks you to consider this work... -
The Singles Bar - 16th April 2012
Another week, another line-up of singles... and so the cycle will continue until long after we're all dead (or more accurately, when people stop buying them completely). Still, at least it's quite a good bunch this week.
Mark Davison is feeling more navel-gazey than usual... -
The Singles Bar - 9th April 2012
Happy Easter, everyone! Following a week's break, Joe Rivers is back at the helm, captaining the good ship Singles Bar through the choppy waters of ten new releases.
Climb aboard...
