The way Erland Cooper likes to tell it, the story starts with a dream, one in which the Orcadian musician – best known as the front man of Erland And The Carnival – is visited by the ghost of a long dead fellow citizen of the Orkney Islands, Betty Corrigall.
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In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
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It's always, always a bad idea to dismiss an artist based on a terrible name.
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On April 24, 1989, Tom Petty released "Full Moon Fever," his first solo album.
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"Is everybody crowd surfing like it's ninety-four?"
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Tomorrow, Lamb of God will kick off a tour with Decapitated, The Acacia Strain, and Anciients (replacing Terror, who had to drop off the trek "due to unforeseen health issues"); it will be the band's first since Randy Blythe was exonerated of manslaughter charges in the Czech Republic earlier this year.
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I had the privilege of knowing and working with George and Nancy Jones.
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The National surprised fans today by debuting a video for their new track "Sea of Love" during their Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session.
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His voice was like a stradivarius violin: one of the greatest instruments ever made.
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How do you go from being a Chicago punk rock act to the nation's most ubiquitous rock band in less than three years?
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A collection of peerless musicians with jazz skills and roots instincts, they honed their craft backing Hawkins in juke joints and small halls for nearly five years, and then had their first fateful experience as Bob Dylan's backup band on his 1965 US tour.
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Jesse Smith and Aaron Sternick have been making music together for years and under their latest moniker, Welcome Center , they've put together an EP called Different Joys comprised of five lo-fi rock tunes filled with dance grooves, fuzzy guitars, and miles and miles of heart.
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Sir Jim James, you and your creations are the Regions of Light and Sound of God to my senses.
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If you were hoping that Iggy and the Stooges' new record Ready to Die, which features the unlikely return of James Williamson on guitar, would somehow match the heights of Raw Power, you're in for a little bit of disappointment.
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A Grave With No Name , the brainchild of Alexander Shields, will return this summer with a new album.
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Metal in 2013 will to some extent be defined by two stories that made their debuts in April, one of which was included on our list of the month's best songs, the other which was not but deserves to be discussed here just the same.
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When it comes to country music, George Jones was The Voice.
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Back in 1987 the band No Trend proudly handed over its new album More to its record company, Touch and Go. The execs at Touch and Go gave it one listen, returned it to the band holding it gingerly by the edges with their fingertips as if it were something unspeakable like a radioactive monkey head, and in effect told the band, "Won't touch. Please go."
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As a founder member of Primal Scream some thirty years ago and former player with both The Jesus & Mary Chain and The Wake , Bobby Gillespie's status as a musical and cultural icon is assured.
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When Fall Out Boy announced their reunion earlier this year, they had serious doubts whether anyone would really care.
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By the time Paul Motian had passed away in November of 2011, he had established a legacy that reaches far beyond a couple of historical evenings at the Village Vanguard in late June of 1961.
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Gavin Prior, his label Deserted Village , and the shape-shifting folk/Improv group of which he is a part, United Bible Studies, are at the leading edge of the somewhat fragile, very fitful, but often fertile Irish underground/weirdo/non-notated experimental music scene.
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Beccy Owen's Drink is the result of the kind of musical workout plan that separates the in-the-blood-maaan muso from the truly obsessive creative type.
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It could be the most inappropriate and gratuitously offensive number one hit single ever.
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Former Sex Pistols and current [a]Public Image Ltd.[a] frontman John Lydon has hit out at those celebrating Margaret Thatcher 's death, as groups around the UK plan parties to celebrate the former Prime Minister's death.
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Singer-songwriter and former member of Everything But The Girl, Tracey Thorn, has written an article on Margaret Thatcher's death for the ITV News website, offering a more measured view than some other musician commentators.
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As I write, I can practically hear the cheering of friends across the social media resounding like church bells.
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It's been a great start to the year for new releases, as DiS editor Sean Adams has already alluded to here and here.
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When Danny Boyle first started out in England, his movies were often criticized for their sleek MTV -era construction with accusations that the films weren't films at all, but rather just music videos stitched together by flashy editing at a breakneck pace.
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When Danny Boyle first started out in England, his movies were often criticized for their sleek MTV -era construction, with accusations that the films weren't films at all, but rather just music videos stitched together by flashy editing at a breakneck pace.
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Last month I harped on about how I was sticking with grim stuff because it was still dark and cold out, and not quite spring, and brighter sounds are for brighter days.
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It'd be too easy to get away with using a cheap pun when summing up this album and describing it as 'colossal' (see what I did? etc., etc.), but there's really no way around it.
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Never a band to settle on one formula, style, or lineup, Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo is the 8th full-length in ten years of Hey Colossus. 2011's 'RRR' - brought them acclaim from some surprisingly conservative corners, and it's to their credit that they've taken a huge leap forward and created arguably their most dramatic record yet.
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The Black Dahlia Murder's Trevor Strnad Discusses All Things Death Metal with MetalSucks, and Shares His Personal Spotify Death Metal Playlist!
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The Boot rounds up today's country music news from around the web.
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Hey Colossus haven't just been a band for a decade, they've been a consistently good one.
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I'm not sure if this was a problem that only massively plagued UK bands or if it bled into bands from other countries as well, but I must have done and redone my SXSW schedule 10 times in the lead-up to the week of SXSW 2013.
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California may not be the first place you'd think to look for new songs by emerging bands playing good old-school mountain music.
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