Music Features
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Overlooked Albums #2: Richard Skelton - Landings
Jody White looks back at Richard Skelton's Landings. Originally released as a book and CD duo, it's the chronicle of one man's attempts to deal with personal tragedy and the solace he finds in the landscape that surrounds him. Jody also got to talk to the man himself, to get his thoughts on this overlooked album.
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LIVE BLOG: The Brit Awards 2011
It's the biggest night in UK pop music and for some unknown reason, Joe Rivers decided to live blog The Brit Awards 2011 for No Ripcord. Read his account of the evening here.
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Second Take: Destroyer - "Kaputt"
Preston Bernstein thinks the latest album from Dan Bejar's Destroyer just might be the first great release of 2011.
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Marnie Stern (Interview)
Marnie Stern guzzles a Venti Chi Latte and attempts to cut her own hair while talking to Sean Caldwell about her music, her new demo release and what inspired her to pick up a guitar.
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MMXI: A Musical Guide
Now 2011 has settled down and we're a few weeks in, we can get on with looking forward to the big albums that will be released in the next twelve months. Who's going to get it right? Who's going to surprise as all? Who's going to suffer from "difficult second album syndrome"? Lukas Clark-Memler reveals all in his comprehensive look at the year ahead.
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Track Of The Day: January
One day a man had an idea, an idea so potent it would make No Ripcord into the leviathan, amateur, web-based, pop music journal that it undoubtedly deserves to be. But then he realised that that would be really, really hard work; so instead he settled on suggesting a song he liked to those who happened to be following on Twitter or Facebook at the time - Track Of The Day was born and this is its story.
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The Go! Team (Interview)
Just as album #3 hits the shops and they embark upon a UK tour, Ian Parton of Brighton sextet The Go! Team caught up with Joe Rivers to talk commercials, collaborations and cassette tapes.
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Staff Playlist #3 - The 1960s
In the latest of No Ripcord's collaborative playlists, we go back half a century to uncover the best songs of the 1960s.
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Perfect Pop #1: ABC - The Lexicon of Love
In the first installment of our new Perfect Pop Series, David Coleman reflects on the enduring power of ABC's 1982 masterpiece, The Lexicon of Love.
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What's the Rumpus? #2 - What Women Want
Joe Gastineau takes a look at the world of film directors, and finds it's still very much a man's world.
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