Music Features
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Used Adventures In Hi-Fi #2
In rural England, a dark indie gem is found.
Simon Briercliffe has a brief dalliance with the Weds. -
Podcast #9
The ninth No Ripcord podcast - our first since October 2007 - provides a showcase of some of the finest music of the last six months. Featuring Evangelicals, No Age and DeVotchKa.
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Obsessions and Lamentations #2
In which we consider Madonna, Dennis Wilson and Speed Racer.
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Iron & Wine, Bon Iver: Live at Sheffield Leadmill
Two of the indie scene's foremost singer-songwriters bring their live act to UK shores for a very welcome tour. But will it be the established star or the hotly-tipped newcomer who steals the show?
David Coleman has made his mind up... -
Obsessions and Lamentations #1
Alan Shulman searches for meaning and truth in his brand new column for No Ripcord, Obsessions and Lamentations.
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Used Adventures In Hi-Fi #1
The joys of trawling the shelves of used bookstores and charity shops for hidden gems are many and varied. Wading through heaps of Frampton Comes Alive or Robert Plant solo albums is a frustrating yet rewarding pastime, and if end you end up with a flowery shirt and a dozen copies of The Da Vinci Code, all the better.
Simon Briercliffe delivers the goods. -
Film After The Soviets (Part 2)
How did cinema adapt to the new constrains of life outside the Soviet Union, and how did life adapt to new cinema?
Richard Bendall-Jones investigates... -
Nick Cave: Live at Hammersmith Apollo
The Godfather of Goth takes the stage, and he's angrier than ever.
Simon Briercliffe surveys the damage. -
Fallow
What's a meta phor?
Roylance makes excuses... -
John Kenneth Muir's "Horror Films of the 1980s"
The embodiment of an Onion headline, sometimes I read, but always about film and music.
George Booker endorses...
