Early in the sessions for Crowded House's debut album, the band and producer Mitchell Froom were still feeling each other out, and at one point Froom substituted session musicians for the band's Paul Hester and Nick Seymour.
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Like Tom Waits , art-pop concern Mahogany keep getting weirder while staying the same (to whit, Wikipedia describes the once-octet thusly: "an electric music-based multidisciplinary media ensemble currently working in Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and other locations").
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There's not many occasions in the life of a music fanatic when you can say that you're truly spoilt for choice.
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Stornoway 's second album 'Tales From Terra Firma' is a gloriously eclectic, charmingly elusive collection of songs, which, even after a month of listening, seem to defy any straightforward description.
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I have no idea how it's taken us this long to get around to writing about The Bee Gees. I mean, we've claimed them as Australian in the same way we claim Gotye (formerly a Belgian), Kimbra (formerly a Kiwi) and Crowded House (still Kiwis) as our own, because they got their big musical start in the dusty plains of Queensland after moving here from the UK.
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I mentioned this in my list of picks from 2012, and promised to write a piece on it, as Cold Chisel most certainly aren't a household name in the US.
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New Zealand indie label Flying Nun launched in the early 80s to give a few local bands the chance to release their music.
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I've been wrestling with charges of being a "music snob" lately, so here's one last retrospective list.
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It has been 10 years since Tarmac Adam, originally featuring Paul Hester and Nick Seymour from Crowded House, released their debut album in Australia and now the band is back together for their American debut.
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Often appearing on small labels with distribution problems, Lisa Germano hasn't had as much luck as a solo artist as she has as a first-call fiddling side person.
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We stop today to remember those who left the world of music in 2012, from Dave Brubeck and Dick Clark to Levon Helm and Ronnie Montrose.
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Welcome to our annual countdown of the 50 best songs of the calendar year.
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The movie doesn't hit theaters until December 13. but you can listen to the soundtrack to the film, which comes out on December 10, now.
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Once again reteaming with Howard Shore , the composer has cooked up another grand score for the latest adventures in Middle Earth, and you can take a listen to it right now.
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An Unexpected Journey which will hit theaters later this year.
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I've gone with Supergrass's drummer because he has always been somebody who has inspired me from a really young age.
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Middle Earth, hobbits, dwarves, adventure, Gandalf, etc. -- Peter Jackson 's upcoming " The Hobbit " trilogy will likely offer up some key differences as well from his " The Lord Of The Rings " series of movies.
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Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription.
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Inspirational without feeling like a too-easy bromide, Tim Finn's free download "People Like Us" urges us, gently but insistently, toward contentment with what's left in our lives.
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Having arrived, after some delays, on a blisteringly hot Thursday we found that the festival officials had no record of us ever been granted press passes.
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Fallon Cush takes a darker, more contemplative turn with April, after the fizzy power pop of its self-titled 2011 debut.
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A boisterous combining of towering classical swooshes, guitar roars, tempo shifts and post-pop dreamscapes, Art Decade somehow manages to be both super catchy and mind-blowingly clever.
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If the last time you thought about Susanna Hoffs was when she was still walking like an glammed-up 1980s-era Egyptian, her charming new EP will provide a new window into the deeper pop and folk talents she possesses.
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Pete Jones, the drummer for Crowded House, has passed away at 45 after suffering from brain cancer.
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With Gotye 's unstoppable "Somebody That I Used To Know" sitting pretty at #1, and Adelaide-born singer Sia in close pursuit with her Flo Rida collaboration "Wild Ones" , the Billboard Hot 100 has a distinctly Australian flavor these days.
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Acclaimed Sheffield-born singer-songwriter Helen Boulding releases her second album Calling All Angels on 16th July 2012.
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Jerry Scheff is surely not an unfamiliar name to readers of Uncut.
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With Bottom Feeders we take a look at the songs on the Billboard Hot 100 that Casey Kasem never got to announce.
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What happens when you wrangle some of the finest, most critically acclaimed musicians today, fly them to New Zealand and get them to collaborate on an album and live concert?
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With his beetle brow, bald crown, big ears and gaunt cheekbones, Paul Kelly could play the heavy in a British gangster film, especially when he wears a shiny suit (on the first night of his current U.S. tour, in Austin, Texas it was maroon).
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