Music Features
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The Singles Bar: 3rd September 2012
It's Monday which must mean it's time for The Singles Bar. Grab yourself a seat and get your earholes round this week's selection.
Joe Rivers is this week's guide... -
Obsessions and Lamentations #17 - Nonconformist Edition
I don't care what y'all think, I'm doing what I want.
Alan Shulman resists... -
Bestival 2012: Rob da Bank (Interview)
With just over a week to go until Bestival descends upon the Isle of Wight for a ninth consecutive year, Craig Stevens chats to festival curator and BBC Radio 1 DJ Rob da Bank.
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Bestival 2012: Preview
If you thought festival season was already over for another year, you'd be wrong! Here, Joe Rivers takes a look ahead at one of the UK's most exciting and diverse events: Bestival.
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On Tragedy Songs
In an age where fabricated pop music rules the charts, Angel Aguilar puts in a plea for the bad old days, when murder, unhappiness and disaster were the soundtrack to the Western world.
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Clack! An Interview with R. Stevie Moore
R. Stevie Moore, the hyper-prolific songwriter with a discography that boasts an impressive 400 albums, answers some questions for No Ripcord's Andrew Ciraulo concerning his latest compilation album, Lo-Fi High Fives, his sources of inspiration, and much more!
Andrew Ciraulo wanders down the rabbit hole to interview... -
The Singles Bar: 27th August 2012
Here at The Singles Bar, we don't let the trifling matter of a Bank Holiday put us off our stride. While the rest of the UK was attempting to barbecue in relentless mild drizzle, we were spinning this week's platters that matter.
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Pressing “rewind” in an era of technological “fast forward:” D.I.Y. Cassette Culture finds relevance in the shadows of digital media — Part 2
I continue to talk tape.
Sean Caldwell is still old... -
Pressing “rewind” in an era of technological “fast forward:” D.I.Y. Cassette Culture finds relevance in the shadows of digital media — Part 1
If you’ve noticed an upswing in new and old music released on compact cassettes, so have I. Here are some thoughts and observations from some of those responsible for the resurgence of a “dead” technology.
Sean Caldwell is old... -
On Intertextuality
Why so songs about songs resonate with us in such a way? Using the example of indiepoppers Allo Darlin', Stephen Wragg examines why - if done correctly - such references can be a shorthand for so much more.
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