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Los Campesinos! First Against Wall In TWAT! (The War Against Twee)
"Dad, it’s some old English cunt!" screams my six-year-old daughter Tracey Trotsky Spinoza Jone...
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When The Single Is A Jingle: Artists Forced To Take The Ad Man's Dollar
This one time, Gruff Rhys was telling me about the time Coca Cola was trying to buy 'Hello Suns...
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Dub Be Good To Me. Why Burial's Identity Could Have Stayed Secret . . .
So, it's been revealed that Mercury Prize Nominee Burial "the dark knight of Dubstep" is not a...
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Dumbfuckingstan vs. British Art School Rock - It's No Contest Says Swells
American rockers adapt to the soul-destroying nightmare of bashing out the same turgid muzak to...
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The Unusual Sensation Of Feeling Sorry For Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong
Today Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong revealed that they've scrapped their debut album. Yet Luke Turner can still find it within himself to shed a tear. There are a few positions of opinion in which one never expects to find oneself. Voting Tory, p...
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Lydongate! Johnny's Behaviour Rotten? Swells On The 'Racist' Ruckus
Forget Morriseygate! Here's Lydongate! First came Morrisseygate where — thanks to the amazing space-age technology of the Web 2.0 — fo...
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Dylan vs. Cohen
Last Saturday morning, lying as usual in my pit listening to Radio 4, my somnambulant ears twit...
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Dead Horse Flogging With Sid Vicious at the Camden Stables Market
In his piece for the Quietus on The Joy Division industry, Chris Roberts observed that after t...
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Swells on Topshop playlisting The Rotted
In 1997 David Bowie flogged $55 million worth of 10-year bonds backed by his album sales. These...
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Cutting the Beef: Rappers unite as 50's marketing ploy fails
50 Cent has a new album out this week. A G-Unit album, no less. I know, 'cos dude's name has be...
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