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Live: The Fruitful Earth – “Rising Sun” album launch at Servant Jazz Quarters

Dalston Kingsland, half-eight on a dreary Thursday night, the capital greasily covered with filthy spring rain. This is not at all in keeping with the spirit of the record we’re…

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Howie B: Interview

Text message: “Can we wait until half time ? I’ll call u in 20 mins”. It’s a finely balanced 0-0 at the Vicente Calderón stadium, so you can understand Howie B…

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Tom Brosseau: Profile

Outside it’s a beautifully bright Sunday lunchtime, but chill in the shade. Indoors, in the snug of Paper and Cup, it’s cosy warm. Tom Brosseau, his friend Eva, his manager…

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New Music: Tangerine – Nothing Better

Back in late August we were helped into autumnal slumber by the gentle swells of “Feel This Way”. Seattle, Washington’s Tangerine are back in action this month with a new…

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Video: Just Lions – Paper Cage

Today I have been enjoying the new video for “Paper Cage” by backseatmafia.com faves’ Just Lions’. You can follow an increasingly threatened lead singer Chandler Strutz being chased through Oregon City…

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Joan As Police Woman – The Classic

Sometimes it does what it says on the tin – but elsewhere track sequencing and the mix mean that this album ultimately frustrates. Joan Wasser is not alone as an…

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Track of the Day: Pool – Harm

Take this as an early spring shot in the arm. Your day needs Pool. Super-tight, crisp disco/funk that melds the snap and crackle of Electric Six’s camper moments, and the arty…

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Video: Ratking featuring King Krule – So Sick Stories

A slower slice of troubling hip-hop, following the paranoid claustrophobia of “100”. NYC’s new rap heroes mix it up with London’s King Krule. The video for “So Sick Stories” puts…

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Video: Maids – Bandits

Turns out that this is exactly what I needed this Thursday night: gentle, wistful electro-pop, and an aqua-aerobics video to boot. Midwest Disco indeed. Des Moines, Iowa is something of…

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Video: Le1f – Boom

Openly gay rappers are as rare as openly gay footballers and both fields are all the poorer for the forces that preserve their prejudices. New Yorker, Le1f, is one artist and…

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