Fan made, contest-winning video for Bjork’s “Innocence”, which is the better of the two Timbaland tracks on Volta.

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Freakishly skinny soul chanteuse Amy Winehouse, who is currently enjoying surprising chart success here in America, has been invited by Simpsons creator Matt Groening to appear in the upcoming season, where she’ll meet Lisa in a blues bar. Winehouse agreed, as she is a fan of the show. The only downside is that it’ll be a […]

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“It is strange – and rather disturbing – to discover how important classical music was to two of the most genocidal monsters of the 20th century, Hitler and Stalin.” Der Spiegel recently published a list of the 100 classical recordings found in Hitler’s bunker at the end of WWII, which had been secretly kept by a […]

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Originally released six years ago as a pressing of a mere 1000, thus, making it extremely collectible, Midlake’s Milkmaid Grand Army EP is now available again thanks to Basement Front Records. The band is embarking on another US tour in early September.

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Guilty pleasure.

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During a recent US tour with Bloc Party and the Noisettes, The Maccabees performed a four-song acoustic set for Daytrotter, which you can listen to here. Three songs are from the band’s dizzying debut Colour It In and translate amazingly well to the extremely sparse setting. Vocalist Orlando Weeks’ warble is much more subtle here […]

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As the members of New Order continue to fight, Joy Division reissue plans are full steam ahead to cash in on celebrate the release of Control, the Anton Corbijn-directed Ian Curtis biopic based on wife Deborah Curtis’ memoir, Touching from a Distance.  A collection including both Joy Division studio full lengths, Unknown Pleasures and Closer, will […]

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