Tracking Our Favorite Songs of 2013 #10
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Nestled in the centre of Scandinavia is Sweden, home to IKEA, Eurovision 2013 and Björn Borg. It ranks highest amongst many quality of life indicators - it's famed for standards of health, education and commitment to the environment - and was recently touted by The Economist as the 'best governed country in the world'.
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Famous director turned musician , David Lynch , is releasing a follow up to the very good "Crazy Clown Time " this coming July 16 .
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Did you know about the current infestation of pythons that Florida is facing?
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David Lynch has announced details of his second album 'The Big Dream'.
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Below you'll find a festival diary from 405 writer Robbie Wojciechowski, along with a 'Top 5' from 405 New Music Editor, Hector Barley.
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Coming out on June 16, the new edition of Late Night Tales will journey to Scandinavia to invite Norwegian duo Röyksopp to delve through their record collection!
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No offense to the fellas and your multi-platinum rock bands, chart-topping hip hop and country albums and ill-advised racist anti-racist collaborations; but when it comes to innovation, envelope pushing and flat out excitement, the ladies have you beat.
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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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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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That's the simple biography that Brit-synth duo Thief ration us with on their Facebook page.
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That's one of the reasons he's teamed up with MiO Energy in order to unveil an exclusive track.
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Richard Davies, a London web designer, created the @Twickets exchange after seeing a fan offering to give away last minute tickets for a show for free on Twitter, rather than let them go to waste.
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What would you rank as the top three albums you enjoyed in the last ten years that would have surprised the guy you were back in 2003?
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Jeff Bhasker stands out as one of the best producers in the game right now.
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It's to Frightened Rabbit 's credit that they've made it to album number four very much on their own terms.
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Foo Fighters and Of Monsters And Men were amongst the winners at the Festival Awards Europe 2012, held in Groningen, Holland last night (Jan 9).
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In 2012, producer Jeff Bhasker put the charts in a chokehold.
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For Highasakite vocalist Ingrid Helene Håvik, music has always been a way of life.
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For me, 2012 was essentially a year for good old fashioned rock and roll.
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This brilliant collection of songs beautifully marries modern indie-pop with retro rockabilly and soul.
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I crossed off something on my liststhis week that I've been meaning to cross of for a while.
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As 2012 draws to a close, most of the POPDOSE writers will painstakingly select their top albums, movies and TV shows of the year with all of the drama of the Bachelor's "Most Shocking Rose Ceremony Ever." I joined the staff mid-year, and by then had already amassed a stack of CDs from Amazon US, Amazon UK and a variety of local Seattle stores.
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To mark their third birthday, Ja Ja Ja , purveyors of the finest music from Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Denmark brought one of this years most tipped acts from Copenhagen to their adopted home, The Lexington.
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Hardly a season goes by without some sort of release from Robert Pollard or his reunited band Guided by Voices , and among the highlights of this week's list of new releases is the third GBV album of 2012.
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Following the announcement last week of the shortlists for this year's UK Festival Awards , now the noms are out for the European equivalent, which takes place during the Eurosonic festival in Groningen each January.
Read MoreSay what you will about the Twilight series, but over the course of four films, the soundtracks have given us originals from the likes of Thom Yorke, Grizzly Bear, Lykke Li, Florence and the Machine, and The Black Keys, as well as collaborations between Beck and Bat for Lashes, and Bon Iver and St. Vincent.
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Tuesday 30 October 2012 was one of the more interesting days of my journalistic career.
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At the Austin City Limits festival in October, actress Rooney Mara appeared on stage playing guitar with the Black Lips. A few weeks later at Fun Fun Fun Fest, Val Kilmer also joined the band on stage , destroying an amp with a chainsaw and cutting off his own hair with a knife.
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Twigs is London model and singer Tahliah Barnett, although according to The Bouche Diary she has also used the name Twigs Paramour.
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In retrospect, Brandy regretted how her fifth album turned out.
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Parlor Tricks And Porch Favorites – The 2001 debut album from Patrick Gubler still makes me giddy every time I hear it.
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Though ZZ Top now says they're thrilled with the results on the forthcoming new longplayer La Futura, they admit that it wasn't always smooth sailing with eccentric producer Rick Rubin.
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Six producers worth their salt is a weekly column which features six relevant, up-and-coming, under-exposed, or disruptively innovative musicians in a particular genre-space.
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For the past month, much of my time (and I assume the time of many other music-interested Scandinavians as well) has been devoted to festivals, and there's been more than a few memorable gigs.
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Yesterday afternoon, RCA and Chameleon Records invited select media to preview 11 tracks from Brandy's upcoming sixth album, Two Eleven , dropping October 16th.
Read MoreOn New Year's Eve 1974, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac.
Read MoreThis week is a particularly exciting one for KEXP listeners because today marks the release of Live At KEXP Volume Eight !
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