Music Features
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New for 2012: Clock Opera
Our look at new acts for 2012 continues as Craig Stevens talks to Clock Opera - the experimental band looking to take the next twelve months by storm.
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New for 2012: The Critics' Choice
In the second of our New for 2012 articles, Joe Rivers trawls the ones-to-watch lists and asks just how good these new acts are.
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New for 2012: Under the Radar
In the first of four articles on artists to watch out for in the coming year, Gabriel Szatan looks past the cavalcade of big name lists and picks a handful of acts who aren't getting relentless coverage but could still do something special in 2012.
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The Singles Bar - 9th January 2012
It's the second week of 2012 and The Singles Bar juggernaut rumbles on. We've got the low-down on new tracks from Air, Nicola Roberts, Tribes and more.
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Overlooked Albums #21: Mink DeVille - Le Chat Bleu
Angel Aguilar takes up the tale of Le Chat Bleu - an album so inventive, daring and different, a record company wouldn't even release it.
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The Singles Bar - 2nd January 2012
What better way to start the new year than the return of The Singles Bar? Some artists have been quick off the mark in 2012, and there are ten tracks in this week's selection.
Joe Rivers starts as he means to go on... -
2011: Year of the Woman
As 2011 comes to a close, Forrest Cardamenis examines how the most important records of the year have been made by women, and takes a look back a couple of decades to find out why this might be.
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The Singles Bar - 19th December 2011
Welcome to The Singles Bar Christmas extravaganza! We've got everything you could wish for in our festive assortment: reality TV show contestants, The Wurzels, cover versions, charity choirs, Radiohead. Wait, Radiohead? At Christmas?
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Top 50 Albums of 2011 (Part Two)
It needs no elaborate introduction, this is the final part of No Ripcord's Top 50 Albums of the Year 2011.
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Top 50 Albums of 2011 (Part One)
Welcome to our now-traditional look at the best records of the year. We've tallied up votes and compiled our very own Top 50. Herein lies numbers 50-26 with the remaining 25 soon to follow.
Click here for the low-down on the very best of the year...
