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Albums Of The Year 2010
So it’s that time of year again, when everyone starts choosing their favourite works of art of the year. For the last few years I have been pulling my picks together for a magazine run by a friend, and this year will be no different. I think my overall take is that it has been a really, surprisingly good year for music. I say “surprising” because ( Read more... ) -
"The Ticker Tape Flies Up"
EP of the Year:
3. Twin Atlantic - Vivarium (Red Bull)
1= A Wilhelm Scream - A Wilhelm Scream 12” (Paper + Plastick)
1= The Academy Is… - Lost In Pacific Time (The AP EP) (Fuelled by Ramen)
Compilation / Best-Of of the Year:
Funeral For A Friend - Your History Is Mine (Atlantic)
Album of the Year:
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Still Alright
Hey lovelies,
Hope you are all good! Has been a most eventful week or so here, and am going to lazily have to resort to list format to describe it to make sure I capture things. Roughly speaking, the following have been featuring:
- The Superbowl. Had cross_scars over to watch it, was a great evening, which also included some playing of;
- Class Struggle, the ( Read more... ) -
Oh No Supernova
Hey all,
Hope you are all doing very well and enjoying 2009! Thought I would post with some news - for a couple of years now I have been writing columns for a couple of places, including a Californian music magazine who shall remain nameless on here to spare my embarrassment (the picture on their site of me is really, really bad!). Of late I've been ( Read more... ) -
Happy Christmas!
Hello lovelies,
Just to say I hope you all have a really, really lovely Christmas.
Dxx
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Year of the reunion
What is it with band reunions this year? So far we've had Face to Face (though no UK dates yet), Finch, I have tickets to see Far next week, and now The Get Up Kids have regrouped for at least a few shows. And the good news is that they are still as awesome as they ever were, and I totally remember why they have always been one of my favorite bands ( Read more... ) -
From the heart...
Okay, I will write something proper for here in the next couple of days but please, if you do anything today watch this... just incredible -
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cVUecPhQPqY
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Writing: Mentor or Tormentor?
Okay, so for the first time in a long time am writing again, for a "soon-to-be-lauchned" magazine / web magazine being set up by a music site you may or may not know about, and who I can't name at the moment for legal reasons (blahblahblah). They have released a couple of trial issues of the magazine in "regional markets" in the States, and as the ( Read more... ) -
"You'll Be Missed, Miss California"
Hello dudes and ladies ( Read more... ) -
A Moment Suspended In Time
Hello all! Wonder why I always start posts like that. Hmm… anyhow, I hope you are all doing well and having great summers. The weather has at last moved from “rainy, wet and downright miserable” to “just about bearably warm, though still overcast” here in London. I fear that’s all the summer we are going to get, but we can still hope. Has been a ( Read more... )