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Portishead, Mangum Set for All Tomorrow's Parties -
All Tomorrow's Parties -- the annual festival where renowned artists curate a weekend of music, often resulting in rare performances by reclusive acts -- will stage its 2011 edition this fall in Asbury Park, New Jersey and feature appearances by two of indie rock's most beloved cult faves. British trip-hop...
Airship - Stuck in This Ocean -
Maybe it’s the weather, but whatever the reason there’s no escaping the fact that most guitar groups hailing from Manchester and its immediate vicinity sound, well, rather miserable. From the funereal post-punk of Joy Division and the bittersweet kitchen sink drama of The Smiths to the glum widescreen...
Massive Attack - Blue Lines -
Twenty years on from this landmark album’s release and its makers are very much a part of the mainstream, an outfit comfortably capable of selling out the nation’s biggest venues and with enough column inches of acclaim behind them to build a (rather flimsy, granted) ladder to the Moon. But...
Seven Lucky Plays, Or How to Fix Songs for a Broken Heart - Ilya Monosov's MySpace page lists influences ranging from J. Dilla and Gang Starr to Albert Ayler and Morton Feldman. That's as may be, but his current album shows no markings of those artists to speak of. Instead, it is two other inspirational musicians whose work was quite obviously much on the...
The Knife - Tomorrow, In a Year -
Okay, on paper it does sound a bit complicated, esoteric and, frankly, a bit bonkers: an opera, commissioned by a Danish performance art group, based on the theories of Charles Darwin, made by Swedish siblings Olof and Karin Dreijer, alias The Knife, who are better known for digital art...
Lamb Of God - Sacrament (2006) -
Lamb of God had already cemented their legacy as the next big metal band by their 3rd release, As the Palaces Burn. Taking the reigns after Pantera and tossing any subtlety out the nearest window. But 2006 came around, and the band was looking to branch out and do something...
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