From Chelmsford To São Paulo: An Interview With Gold Panda
I first met Derwin, of Gold Panda infamy, two-and-a-half years ago in a dingy, airless dressing room in Manchester's Ruby Lounge.
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I first met Derwin, of Gold Panda infamy, two-and-a-half years ago in a dingy, airless dressing room in Manchester's Ruby Lounge.
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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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"The eye takes a person into the world. The ear brings the world into a human being."
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They are joining forces with dozens of musicians to launch agit8, which is campaigning to get world leaders to focus on poverty ahead of the G8 summit in Northern Ireland.
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It's been three criticism-filled years since they first emerged - back then, certain people were shocked that they dared to call themselves a black metal band.
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Taffy are back, and they're gunning hard for a spot on your summer playlist.
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Filter frontman Richard Patrick has never been one to mince words, and the quippy and quotable frontman is speaking out about his concerns for Scott Weiland, the former frontman of Stone Temple Pilots.
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It's been a busy few days for The Voice crew since last Tuesday's elimination show.
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Drowned in Sound recently read a piece on the feeling of exquisite sadness – not depression, regret or melancholy – associated with cricket.
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(RNS) When Christian music veteran Carman found out on Valentine's Day that he had terminal cancer, he thought God just might be calling him home because he had nothing more to give.
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Tricky has found himself in a rather tenuous position as an artist for quite a while now.
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The BBC was due to hold top-level discussions with Sir Mick Jagger on Thursday night in order to overcome an impasse which threatens to undermine the corporation's promise to deliver the most comprehensive Glastonbury coverage yet seen.
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Cardiff's live music scene may face yet another blow this year, as Bogiez Rock Bar & Club faces potential closure to make way for student flats.
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There is a hole in the earth shaped like a sword where a fire is eternal.
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Such is the prolific nature of John Robb – that'll be journalist, writer, biographer, talking head and broadcaster amongst his many guises – that it's easy to forget that he's also a musician.
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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 signifies that the former Disney star has arrived, is here to stay and has found her sonic niche.
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On the scale of "pop stars teens like that their parents have heard of," Ed Sheeran probably ranks somewhere in between Justin Bieber and Austine Mahone.
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A trio of collaborations top the New Music Monday offerings, including eruptive vocalist Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa, Bob James and David Sanborn and a pair of Genesis alumni — who offer a new take on one of the band's classic tracks.
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James McCartney, a musician with a blessing/curse of a last name, tries to come to terms with the strength needed to overcome such strokes of luck/misery on "Strong as You" — sounding an elegiac note that might have recalled his famous father if not for its darker sense of worry.
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An appreciation of the music made by The Books is a source of much pleasure for me, but an inclination toward their complex conjunction of found-sound and exquisitely crafted acoustics was not something that came naturally; I had to be lead there, slowly and with baby steps.
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Just one week shy of the Season 12 American Idol finale, singer-songwriter Angie Miller was eliminated.
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It was back to red flags at the ongoing Jacksons v AEG Live court case yesterday, with a medical expert called by the Jackson family listing the reasons why AEG should have been concerned about the appointment of Conrad Murray as the personal medic of Michael Jackson as work on the 'This Is It' venture got under way in 2009.
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It would be wrong to describe the Music Fix office as an 'office' in the traditional sense.
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Omar Rodriguez-Lopez is a restless creative force, with endless musical projects as guitarist and producer, his own label and an accelerating sideline as an experimental filmmaker.
Read MoreIf we've learned anything thus far on this season of The Voice , it's that if you chose Usher as your coach, you've opted for a season of pain!
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On July 15th the Pet Shop Boys — the most successful (and colorful) duo in the history of UK music — will release their 12th studio album, Electric.
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In the last few days, Youtube sensation Psy - the man behind famed 'Gangnam Style' - was confirmed for Capital FM's Summertime Ball. It just seems like yesterday when we first saw Psy and his friends dancing and thrusting their way through some strange choreography on course for e-world domination.
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James Cotton has long referred to his regular working band as "my family," so close is their sense of musical symbiosis, so long is their history.
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A noticeable edge hardens in Cassy Britton 's tone when the conversation turns to the subject of women in electronic music.
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In a career that has spanned more than 30 years and seen more than 20 full-length releases as well as various dalliances with the likes of Yo La Tengo and Jad Fair , Daniel Johnston has, strangely, been more consistently well known for how beloved he is to other musicians than for his own output.
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As a co-founder of Chicago, Seraphine helped create the group's signature sound — and, in so doing, set a template for turn-of-the-1970s jazz rock.
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Living Colour not only rocked the '80s musically, they rocked it with racial diversity.
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There was once a time, in the early 1970s, when Fleetwood Mac added a pair of youthful singer-songwriters in Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham to reinvigorate its sound.
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Following the acclaimed release of The War Room EP in 2012, Public Service Broadcasting have lit up the scene with a genuinely new and exciting approach to instrumental rock.
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It's not often that you hear a solo saxophone player referred to by the New York Times as a "one-man astonishment engine," but considering Colin Stetson's prowess as a performer, and the sprawling, often inscrutable nature of the music he makes, it's totally appropriate.
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The first weekend of Coachella 2013 ended with an anticlimactic super bummer when the weather deteriorated into a blinding sandstorm by the time the Red Hot Chili Peppers started their headline set to close the festival yesterday.
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Kellie Pickler has raised a lot of money and awareness for the fight against breast cancer over the years.
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The late Ellie Greenwich's well-deserved fame derives primarily from her activities a songwriter, specifically as one half of the behemoth Brill Building duo Greenwich-Barry, a pair that penned some of the most brilliant and enduring tunes in the rich history of the '60s Girl-Group sound.
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