Last year's Oscar winning documentary Searching for Sugarman shined a spotlight on an artist who, despite obvious talent and critical acclaim, somehow slipped through the cracks and never enjoyed the mainstream success he was destined for until later in life when a journalist tracked him down and revealed his bootlegged music was as beloved as Bob Dylan and The Beatles in South Africa.
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Tremé, unusually for modern television, features a range of really strong female roles.
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Those with a serious jones for power pop might already be hip to the Numero Group label's dandy 150-gm repressings of the early work from the killer Illinois group, Shoes.
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In March 2010, Big Star' s Jody Stephens honored late band mate Alex Chilton with an impromptu all-star performance of the band's 1978 classic, Third (later Sister Lovers ), during South by Southwest.
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Festival season is nearly upon us, and ringing in the British summer 2013 will be The Great Escape down beside the seaside in Brighton from the 16th-18th of May.
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Festival season is nearly upon us, and ringing in the British summer 2013 will be The Great Escape down beside the seaside in Brighton from the 16th-18th of May.
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The Seattle International Film Festival has had a succulent series of movies based on sounds for a while, sponsored by KEXP and called Face The Music.
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Even though I pretty much shut this column down a while back, my friend/editor/collaborator/occasional thorn-in-side Jeff Giles (y'all) will occasionally try to lure me back to it, quite often with the difficult-to-resist bait of new work from the likes of smooth jazz instrumentalists , or swarthy Greek lover-men , or twangy husband/wife duos , or, you know, liquor.
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UK singer-songwriter Tich has announced a string of dates for an October UK tour.
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Today, April 27th, marks the 20th anniversary of The Posies ' landmark album Frosting on the Beater , and to celebrate, Audioasis host Sharlese Metcalf, along with KEXP staffers Chris Beiter and Janice Headley, reached out to founding members Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow to ask "twenty questions." 1) One of the songs on Frosting on the Beater is called "20 Questions."
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On April 15th, the world lost one of its great pop-rockers in Scott Miller.
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Since the release of their triumphant sophomore album, 2007′s Cryptograms , Atlanta's Deerhunter have produced a pretty vast catalog that's been both unpredictable and consistently great to an almost shocking degree.
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In the Spotlight showcases a cross-section of an artist's cover work.
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If you know one thing about Brooklyn punk band the So So Glos, it's that they're good friends and frequent tourmates of Titus Andronicus, and if you know two things about them, it's that they're OGs in the Brooklyn DIY scene, having helped found venues like the Market Hotel and Shea Stadium.
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Folk singer Richie Havens, assured a place in music history as the opening act at the original Woodstock festival, has died of a heart attack aged 72.
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Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co.'s Jason Molina died of natural causes in his Indianapolis home.
Read MorePhish – Lawn Boy [Deluxe Reissue] – Copies of the original routinely sell for hundreds of dollars.
Read MoreScott Miller, the frontman for Game Theory and the Loud Family, died Monday, according to an announcement on the singer's website.
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Festival season is nearly upon us, and ringing in the British summer 2013 will be The Great Escape down beside the seaside in Brighton from the 16th-18th of May.
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On February 19th we launched our most ambitious undertaking yet— TVD500, the recurring competition where, along with our esteemed partners Infrasonic Mastering, Furnace MFG, and Dorado Music Packaging, we will master, press, design, print, package, and deliver 500 copies of your winning 7″ single—on us.
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Week after week, I'd follow the brand-new Fox reality show, which pitted wannabe pop stars against each other in a fan-voted singing competition.Then hosted by Ryan Seacrest and Brian Dunkleman (remember him?) and judged by Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson, 'Idol' became an instant television and pop culture hit with its simple premise, witty and refreshingly harsh critiques and, of course, talent.
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On February 19th we launched our most ambitious undertaking yet— TVD500, the recurring competition where, along with our esteemed partners Infrasonic Mastering, Furnace MFG, and Dorado Music Packaging, we will master, press, design, print, package, and deliver 500 copies of your winning 7″ single—on us.
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"The one thing that saved Mick at this point was Dylan," Mick Ronson's wife, Suzi, recalls in a terrific feature on her late husband by Garry Mulholland in the new issue of Uncut.
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The Tim Lee 3 might lack a high profile, but rest assured that their namesake has some impressive accomplishments under his belt.
Read MoreWe welcomed Memphis, Tennessee's Star & Micey to Austin for our Strange Brew II party during SXSW.
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One of my all-time favorite Record Store Day releases was Omnivore's 2011 reissue of the Test Pressing of Big Star's Third.
Read MoreBoth in songwriting circles and in the oft harsh arena of departed personalities that never got their just due, the late Townes Van Zandt has grown into a mythic figure.
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First emerging in the early '80s, They Might Be Giants were compelling, confounding, and arguably without precedent.
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If there's a single dominant archetype in media and art right now, it's the flailing, recession-era millennial.
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Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis have been independent solo artists, each making their own way in the musical world since the 1990s.
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This year's London Film Festival opens for business in October.
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Este, Danielle, and Alana Haim are well-versed in the TRL traditions of pop with their synchronized dance moves and windblown hair.
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It's hard to talk about North Carolina's musical legacy – or even indie rock in general – without mentioning Chris Stamey.
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Fans of the Box Tops' Memphis-tinged radio pop, whether period AM listeners or working their way backwards from Big Star or Alex Chilton's solo work, will find something interesting here.
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It's been nine years since Chris Stamey's last solo album, Travels in the South.
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After a 4-year hiatus, Nottingham-based indie rock band Six.by Seven are back together and have recently finished recording a new album at Moles Studio in Bath.
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I'm in Barcelona Airport waiting for Benjamin Schoos.
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When Other Voices started, it was very much in the mould of a regular TV show.
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Six Of The Best is a semi-regular feature that pokes, prods and persuades your favourite bands, bards and barometers of hip opinion to tell us six of the best tracks they've ever heard.
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