(Re)Graded on a Curve: The Normal, “T.V.O.D.” b/w “Warm Leatherette”
Like any genre, electronic pop has its share of essential early documents, the core releases that helped establish the form and give it a voice in the marketplace.
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Like any genre, electronic pop has its share of essential early documents, the core releases that helped establish the form and give it a voice in the marketplace.
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Kraftwerk fans crashed the Tate Modern's website as tickets for a retrospective of their albums in February went on sale on Wednesday.
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Whether you like the Beatles or not, their music can certainly take you to some interesting places — as reflected in our latest edition Desert Island Discs.
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Last week, the Quietus temporarily relocated to Tilburg, in the Netherlands for this year's edition of the Incubate festival.
Read MoreLike any genre, electronic pop has its share of essential early documents, the core releases that helped establish the form and give it a voice in the marketplace.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sunny festival with no decent bands on the bill trumps the finest line-up sunk in a slew of rain and mud.
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Originally Trbovlje was a very beautiful valley, in medieval times a place for the dukes and local aristocracy to hunt.
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Next week, the Quietus office will be decamping to Tilburg, the Netherlands, for 2012's edition of the annual Incubate Festival of Independent Culture.
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Full Albums features covers of every track off a classic album.
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Mute label boss Daniel Miller and alternative scene hero Edwyn Collins will both be honoured by lifetime achievement awards at this year's AIM Independent Music Awards on October 29.
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Our friends in the Netherlands Incubate have pulled a blinder and booked grindcore/death metal royalty, Napalm Death for this year's festival.
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In honor of Independence Day, KEXP is saluting some of our favorite indie record labels who's DIY-spirit helped revolutionize the music industry.
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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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Sometimes, even in music, it's wiser to go with your head than your heart.
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25 years ago, in 1987, the English music scene felt debilitated by a certain, deliberate, postmodern smallness.
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When I saw him perform twice last year, both sets were distinctly different, but both succeeded in affecting a certain aboriginal feeling in my body, by way of subsonic frequencies or animal instincts or what-have-you, and bypassed my natural inclination to be turned off by what I would normally call sanctimonious presentations in a performance context.
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In December 1990, Laibach played a concert at one of the three power stations in their Slovenian home town of Trbovlje.
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There are no innocent buildings in Berlin.
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Once again, the great releases of this year are roundly ignored by other 'best-of' music compilers – fools, one and all, but that is precisely why you come here.
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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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What can possibly be said about a group that's probably sold a billion copies in the time it's taken you to read this first sentence?
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With weary predictability, the violence that has taken place across Britain this week has led the tabloid press to pick on a familiar scapegoat.
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Since self-releasing the Normal's electro-punk classic, 'T.V.O.D.' b/w 'Warm Leatherette,' in 1978, Daniel Miller has headed Mute Records, one of Britain's most creative and original independent labels.
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