Music Features
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Staff Playlist #10: Covers
We're now into double figures with our staff playlists and this month we take on the sometimes thorny issue of cover versions. It's time to pay tribute to the innovative artists who can take someone else's vision and transform it.
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Perfect Pop #4: Emitt Rhodes - Emitt Rhodes
In the latest of our Perfect Pop series, Juan Edgardo Rodriguez takes up the tale of Emitt Rhodes - a prodigiously talented man who arrived on the scene so fully-formed, the industry refused to believe he was for real.
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Overlooked Albums #14: Buddy Holly and The Crickets - The "Chirping" Crickets
Angel Aguilar looks back at a pivotal moment in the history of popular music: the recording of the very first album by Buddy Holly and The Crickets.
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Interview with author David Browne
We talk to the author of an entertaining and informative new book, "Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the Lost Story of 1970"
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The No RipCast: Volume 2
We discuss the launch of Spotify in America, how listening habits have changed, and the untimely death of Amy Winehouse. Plus, there's a look at the legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and music from two great new bands.
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Perfect Pop #3: Haircut One Hundred - Pelican West
The long-awaited return of our Perfect Pop series sees D.C. Harrison journey back nearly thirty years to sing the praises of Haircut One Hundred's finest hour, Pelican West.
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The Singles Bar - 15th August 2011
In the first of a new (ir)regular feature, we take a look at what tracks are fresh out this week. In a nod to Smash Hits! (R.I.P.) and several other music magazines of yesteryear, we're reviewing the singles.
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Joe Blogs #1 - There's A Riot Goin' On
Welcome to the first of a new series where Joe Rivers takes a look at the world of pop music in a wider context. We're in the aftermath of a global recession and the major cities of England have been subject to violence, riots and looting - where are all the protest singers?
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Playlist: Things We Lost In The Fire
The fire that decimated the Sony DADC warehouse in London earlier this week has left countless independent labels facing a bleak and uncertain future. In this special playlist, compiled by David and Joe, we share some of our favourite tracks from the labels hit by the disaster.
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Your New Favourite Band #6: You Are My Symphonic
Montreal-based laptop composer Vishal Kassie is creating some very special sounds.
Experience them here...
