Ok, not really a sellout (it’s not like Detektivbyran is a household name in the states). Sprint’s latest holiday commercial features the music of Sweden’s Detektivbyrån. I actually wish more commercials used music from the likes of Detektivbyrån and for that matter, Yann Tiersen.

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The new Radiohead video for “Jigsaw Falling into Place”, the first official single off In Rainbows, is a dash of black and white claustrophobia, wherein the band members are all wearing odd little bicycle helmets as the camera swoops between them along to the beat. It’s far less odd that you’d expect, considering how cryptic […]

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After reuniting in 1998 for the enormously successful Resurrection Tour, art-punk pioneers, Bauhaus, have taken their time putting together new material. The band originally split in 1983 after lead singer Peter Murphy fell ill during the recording of its then swan-song Burning from the Inside, allowing guitarist Daniel Ash to take up the slack. The taking up of […]

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Paste Magazine got some attention on the interwebs this week for naming The National‘s Boxer the best record of 2007, but contributing editor Jeff Leven got in on the list making with “The Greatest Riffs of the 21st Century (So Far)”. “To make its way into the canon of great riffs alongside, say, ‘Purple Haze’ […]

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