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Interview: Kristin Hersh
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Sam Shepherd
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Ahead of her book-album Crooked and a memoir, the Throwing Muses founder waxes on bands, solo travails, bipolar disorder and the life nomadic.
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Spotlight: Belfast
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Ben Urdang
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The burgeoning music scene in Northern Ireland's principal city.
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Interview: OK Go
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DB Telford
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Damian Kulash on a legacy of hit YouTube videos, meeting muppets and switching guitars for hand bells.
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Interview: Ólafur Arnalds
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We pop a camera in front of the Icelandic neo-classical prodigy and get him to answer some questions on films, ballet, influences and relaxation. The sum of these three video parts is an interview, with an encore on piano.
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Interview: Tom Jones
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Ben Hogwood
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A knight of the realm and heading into his eighth decade, the Welsh crooner shows no sign of slowing with his latest album, a gospel collection. What's the secret to such longevity?
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Interview: Alan Pownall
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Ben Hogwood
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As his debut album True Love Stories hits the shops, the Londoner talks of his stillborn career in fashion, the curiosity of London audiences and his feminine side.
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Interview: Devo
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Darren Harvey
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"Chief strategist" Jerry Casale on reuniting with Mark Mothersbaugh, listening to strategists, capitalism vs democracy and Something For Everybody, their first album in 20 years.
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Interview: Laurie Anderson
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Darren Harvey
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Her new album Homeland is a political statement of sorts, even if some of that statement is delivered through an "idiot" male alter ego called Fenway Bergamot.
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Feature: musicOMH's Most Read Album Reviews: 2010 Q2
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Michael Hubbard
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Which albums have our readers been most interested in from April to June?
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Interview: Suzanne Vega
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Hannah Forbes Black
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A period of reflection beckons for the lady with the love songs as she explains her decision to package a whole album of them.
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Spotlight: Oasis - Time Flies... 1994-2009
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Sam Shepherd
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As a two-disc retrospective of their 15 years in business is released, we look back (though not necessarily in anger) at a band that soundtracked a good portion of the '90s.
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Interview: The Divine Comedy
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Ben Hogwood
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Neil Hannon gets polemical on politics and economics as he unleashes 10th album Bang Goes The Knighthood, prepares for batting at Richard Thompson's Meltdown and chinwags splendidly about his first musical.
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Interview: Jónsi
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Michael Hubbard
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The Sigur Rós front man talks baby booms, "gay techno" and falling in love as he gears up for a world tour in support of his debut solo album, Go.
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Interview: Silver Columns
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Michael Hubbard
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Adem on the duo's debut album Yes And Dance, influences musical and medicinal and which new albums are exciting him most.
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Interview: Faithless
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Ben Hogwood
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Maxi Jazz and Sister Bliss on their first album in four years The Dance, and that Tesco exclusive deal.
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Interview: Holy Fuck
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Ben Hogwood
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Graham Walsh on why the Canadian quartet have to be experienced live, whether the band's name has helped or hindered and what it's like to be namechecked by Thom Yorke and Lou Reed.
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Interview: Kate Nash
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Ben Hogwood
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She still hopes her best friend is you, despite a determined attempt at broadening her audience beyond pop and down the road marked 'edgier'.
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Interview: Doves
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Ben Hogwood
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A period of retrospection sets in for the Manchester threesome as they mull over 18 years together, their days as Sub Sub and where best to replenish creative energies.
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Interview: Paul Weller
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Ben Hogwood
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The Modfather makes us a cuppa and waxes lyrical on the demise of BBC 6music, the upcoming UK general election, the passing of Malcolm McLaren and new album Wake Up The Nation.
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Interview: Spoon
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Justin de la Cruz
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A call across America finds bassist Rob Pope amid Kansas snowfalls and musing on far-flung bandmates in Texas and Oregon.
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Interview: Natalie Merchant
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Ben Urdang
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Her new album Leave Your Sleep, her first for seven years, utilised the labours of three research assistants as she paired the words of poets to original music.
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Interview: Peggy Sue
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Helen Clarke
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Rosa Slade reflects on touring by Megabus and what a difference a third person can make.
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Interview: Rufus Wainwright
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Ben Urdang
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Ahead of the release of his stripped-down new album All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu and the London premiere of his opera Prima Donna, he speaks about the death of his mother Kate McGarrigle.
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Interview: Tunng
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Ben Hogwood
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Mike Lindsay and Becky Jacobs take us sailing into their new world.
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Feature: musicOMH's Most Read Album Reviews: 2010 Q1
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Michael Hubbard
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Good news for an under-fire major and an 87-year-old movie icon in our countdown of what's been read during the first three months of the new decade.
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Feature: Black Sabbath
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Andrew Burgess
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As Live Evil, Heaven And Hell and Mob Rules get the Deluxe Edition treatment, a look back at their post-Ozzy darkest period shines a light on the beginnings of metal.
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Feature: Elliott Smith
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Andrew Burgess
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As Roman Candle gets the reissue treatment, we look back on Smith's effect on music since his untimely death.
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Interview: Autechre
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Ben Hogwood
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Rob Brown on deconstruction, competition, game changing and the duo's tenth album Oversteps.
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Feature: Galaxie 500
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Dan Marner
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As their three albums are given the Deluxe Edition treatment, what place do these works occupy 20 years on?
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Feature: Glee: The Music, Volumes 1 & 2
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Darren Harvey
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The show's a huge hit, but does the music survive out of its televisual context, and across two volumes at that?
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Interview: Jaga Jazzist
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Ben Hogwood
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Principal composer, band leader and tenor sax parper Lars Horntveth on the Norwegians' fifth album One-Armed Bandit.
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Interview: Editors
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Helen Clarke
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Tom Smith on working alone, being cast as a dark lord and why Lady GaGa's music makes him want to kill himself.
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Interview: The Hidden Cameras
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Darren Harvey
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Joel Gibb on lyrical expectations, knowing audiences, men who look like him and the endless possibilities of music in a live setting.
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Interview: Jesca Hoop
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Helen Clarke
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Tom Waits' sometime live-in nanny gets used to her new home city Manchester's music, language and weather.
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Comment: The Great Streaming Debate
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Melnyk
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As Warner Music's CEO reopens the debate on streaming music services like Spotify, a label owner wonders who in the music industry is listening to artists and fans.
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Feature: The Definitive Ian Dury
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DB Telford
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As we approach the 10th anniversary of his death, a definitive biography and biographical film attempt to shed light on the man and his work.
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Interview: Midlake
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Michael Cragg
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Front man Tim Smith on bucolic influences, Radiohead and the Texan folk-rockers' third album The Courage Of Others.
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Interview: The Magnetic Fields
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Darren Harvey
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Stephin Merritt on the wearisome nature of piano tuning, the joys of London's gay bars and reasons for travelling to Scandinavia.
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Interview: Yeasayer
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Hannah Forbes Black
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Chris Keating and Ira Wolf Tuton chew over Odd Blood, amble over Ambling Alp and do their best to explain the context of the band's startling change of sound since their debut.
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Interview: Los Campesinos!
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Helen Clarke
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The Welsh indie-poppers prepare to unleash their third album sans keyboardist Aleks. Has her departure changed the group's dynamic?
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Interview: Fyfe Dangerfield
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Michael Hubbard
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A lone Guillemot spreads his wings and takes flight to a Yellow Moon. It seems to be a contented sort of place.
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Interview: Field Music
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Helen Clarke
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After time away on solo projects, the Brewis Brothers are back with a new line-up and a double album.
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Interview: Gabby Young
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Ceiri O'Driscoll
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Having released her album We're All In This Together at the tail end of 2009, this red crested fashion explosion is trailblazing a way for independent artists into the new decade.
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Interview: Delphic
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Helen Clarke
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The BBC Sound Of 2010 shortlisted band are among the first out of the blocks in the new decade, with debut album Acolyte. Guitarist Matt Cocksedge steels himself for what comes next. |
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musicOMH's Top 50 Albums Of 2009
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Ben Hogwood and Michael Hubbard
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From the nearly 700 albums we reviewed this year, which did our writers love the most, and do you agree with them?
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Albums Of The Decade: 2000-2009
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Ben Hogwood and Michael Hubbard
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Our writers vote on the 21 greatest albums of the 21st Century's first decade.
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Most Read Album Reviews: 2009 Q4
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Michael Hubbard
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musicOMH readers' viewing habits: the Top 50 album reviews most read in October, November and December 2009.
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