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music features and interviews: 2010 Archive

musicOMH's Top 50 Albums Of 2010

In very many parts, with features on the Top 10, a Spotify playlist and probably a kitchen sink thrown in.

Analysis: musicOMH's Most Read Album Reviews, 2011 Q4

Michael Hubbard

Another episode of our apparently riveting quarterly list of album reviews, as read by...well... our readers.

Q&A: Avey Tare

The Animal Collective lynchpin on his new solo album Down There and the band's next steps as they emerge from the post-Merriweather Post Pavilion fug.

Interview: Miles Kane

Ben Hogwood

Half of The Last Shadow Puppets and sometime lynchpin of The Rascals goes solo and prepares for a debut album in 2011. Noel Gallagher's guest spot is just the least of it, he says...

Interview: Sander Kleinenberg

Ben Hogwood

The Dutch DJ and producer on his debut artist album 5K, collective psychosis and jamming with Jamie Cullum.

Interview: Duffy

Ben Hogwood

How does a lady follow the success of Rockferry? How about by bringing in Albert Hammond Snr and The Roots for her follow-up, Endlessly?

Interview: Laurent Garnier

Ben Hogwood

The French techno producer and DJ on his music's changing balance, as playing live becomes more prominent in the club fraternity.

Interview: Gabriel Prokofiev

Ben Hogwood

The grandson of Sergei Prokofiev - the man whose music became the theme tune for The Apprentice - explains why classical music's treasures should be open to everyone.

Interview: Gary Lucas

Edward Randell

The London Jazz Festival stages the UK premiere of the guitar legend and Jeff Buckley collaborator's soundtrack to the Spanish language Dracula.

Interview: Swans

Dan Marner

Michael Gira on disbanding and reforming, intense recording techniques, the Young God roster, America's direction and keeping his head above water.
Part 1 | Part 2

Q&A: David Sylvian

On collaborations, legacies, the changing nature of music, future projects, past successes and current album Sleepwalkers.

Interview: LCD Soundsystem

Ben Urdang

DFA and LCD founding daddy James Murphy pores over a singular career and considers what the future may hold as the band get their final tour underway. But will it be their last?

Interview: The Orb

Ben Hogwood

Alex Paterson on his collaboration with Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, Metallic Spheres, and where an ideal gig might take place.

Spotlight: Orange Juice

Andrew Burgess

Edwyn Collins has gone on to carve a successful solo career, but the post-punk Glasgow group that started him - and many others - off are far from forgotten, as a career-spanning new box set underlines.

Spotlight: Dexys Midnight Runners

Gareth Ware

A career retrospective compilation offers the chance to muse on where today's young soul rebels are.

Q&A: Edwyn Collins

With his new solo album Losing Sleep out and Orange Juice seven-disc box set Coals To Newcastle on the way, we caught up with the man who penned Rip It Up and A Girl Like You for a chat about matters past and present.

Interview: Antony And The Johnsons

Dan Marner

Ahead of the release of his fourth album Swanlights, Antony talks art, collaborations, transcending gender and his position in nature and the world.

Interview: Magnetic Man

Ben Hogwood

It's not dubstep, say Skream, Artwork and Benga; it's "UK bass music". So now you know.

Interview: Summer Camp

Gareth Ware

Jeremy Warmsley and Elizabeth Sankey on teaming up, complementing and powering forth as a duo.

Feature: Rolling Stones

Neil Dowden

As concert movie Ladies And Gentelemen... gets committed to DVD and Blu-ray three and a half decades after the event, the enduring rock 'n' roll originators reveal the talent that made them the world's biggest band in the first place.

Feature: Robbie Williams

Nic Oliver

In And Out Of Consciousness allows time to pause and to reflect on the solo career of one-fifth of a boy band. Does a career spanning two decades point to something more than luck at play?

Feature: ESG

Darren Harvey

Mrs Scroggins inadvertently created one of the most influential - and yet still almost unknown - bands in history. Now her daughters get a career-spanning double CD retrospective. But would less have been more?

Obituary: Solomon Burke

Daniel Paton

A larger-than-life life lived: 1940-2010.

Interview: Yann Tiersen

Edward Randell

The Breton multi-instrumentalist and Amélie soundtrack composer on Dust Lane, his first album sung entirely in English, his compatriots and the legacy of Montmartre's most celebrated waitress.

Feature: David Bowie - Station To Station

Dan Marner

Special and Deluxe Editions of The Thin White Duke's 1976 album give us an excuse to correct a defect - this is, amazingly, our first Bowie article ever.

Analysis: musicOMH's Most Read Album Reviews, 2010 Q3

Michael Hubbard

Another quarterly round-up of our readers' habits. Which old timers still have what it takes and which emerging acts made a splash?

Feature: 20 Years Of Ninja Tune

Ben Hogwood

Coldcut's celebrated label has more celebrating to do as they chalk up two decades of ploughing a decidedly unique furrow and unleash a four CD box set documenting highlights.

Feature: Giant Sand at 25

Tom Jowett

After 25 years and 25 albums - the 25th, Blurry Blue Mountain, is due this month along with the first of a slew of anniversary editions - Howe Gelb has reason enough to reflect on what was and what might have been.

Interview: OMD

Ben Hogwood

"Popular music as an art form has run its course," says main man Andy McCluskey as the '80s synthpop pioneers enjoy a new lease of life.

Interview: Mystery Jets

Ben Hogwood

Front man Blaine Harrison on signing to Rough Trade, this year's album Seratonin and the darker side of celebrity culture.

Interview: Macy Gray

Ben Hogwood

Is calling her latest album The Sellout a fit of irony? Is her second career as a DJ serious? Will she take her sunglasses off?

Interview: Hurts

Ben Hogwood

Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson on escaping from life on the dole, the influence of Europe, their debut album Happiness and the glamour of touring.

Interview: Klaxons

Ben Hogwood

James Righton recounts what's changed since their debut album won the Mercury Prize.

Interview: Everything Everything

Ben Hogwood

As the BBC Sound Of 2010 shortlisters' debut album Man Alive is released to swoons and gasps, Jonathan Everything can hardly wait to play headline sets.

Interview: Kristin Hersh

Sam Shepherd

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

Ben Urdang

The burgeoning music scene in Northern Ireland's principal city.

Interview: OK Go

DB Telford

Damian Kulash on a legacy of hit YouTube videos, meeting muppets and switching guitars for hand bells.

Interview: Ólafur Arnalds

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.

Interview: Tom Jones

Ben Hogwood

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?

Interview: Alan Pownall

Ben Hogwood

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.

Interview: Devo

Darren Harvey

"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.

Interview: Laurie Anderson

Darren Harvey

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.

Feature: musicOMH's Most Read Album Reviews: 2010 Q2

Michael Hubbard

Which albums have our readers been most interested in from April to June?

Interview: Suzanne Vega

Hannah Forbes Black

A period of reflection beckons for the lady with the love songs as she explains her decision to package a whole album of them.

Spotlight: Oasis - Time Flies... 1994-2009

Sam Shepherd

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.

Interview: The Divine Comedy

Ben Hogwood

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.

Interview: Jónsi

Michael Hubbard

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.

Interview: Silver Columns

Michael Hubbard

Adem on the duo's debut album Yes And Dance, influences musical and medicinal and which new albums are exciting him most.

Interview: Faithless

Ben Hogwood

Maxi Jazz and Sister Bliss on their first album in four years The Dance, and that Tesco exclusive deal.

Interview: Holy Fuck

Ben Hogwood

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.

Interview: Beach House

Michael Hubbard

Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally talk Teen Dream, teen movie soundtracks, Baltimore and labels.

Interview: Kate Nash

Ben Hogwood

She still hopes her best friend is you, despite a determined attempt at broadening her audience beyond pop and down the road marked 'edgier'.

Interview: Doves

Ben Hogwood

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.

Interview: Paul Weller

Ben Hogwood

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.

Interview: Spoon

Justin de la Cruz

A call across America finds bassist Rob Pope amid Kansas snowfalls and musing on far-flung bandmates in Texas and Oregon.

Interview: Natalie Merchant

Ben Urdang

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.

Interview: Peggy Sue

Helen Clarke

Rosa Slade reflects on touring by Megabus and what a difference a third person can make.

Interview: Rufus Wainwright

Ben Urdang

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.

Interview: Tunng

Ben Hogwood

Mike Lindsay and Becky Jacobs take us sailing into their new world.

Feature: musicOMH's Most Read Album Reviews: 2010 Q1

Michael Hubbard

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.

Feature: Black Sabbath

Andrew Burgess

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.

Feature: Elliott Smith

Andrew Burgess

As Roman Candle gets the reissue treatment, we look back on Smith's effect on music since his untimely death.

Interview: Autechre

Ben Hogwood

Rob Brown on deconstruction, competition, game changing and the duo's tenth album Oversteps.

Feature: Galaxie 500

Dan Marner

As their three albums are given the Deluxe Edition treatment, what place do these works occupy 20 years on?

Feature: Glee: The Music, Volumes 1 & 2

Darren Harvey

The show's a huge hit, but does the music survive out of its televisual context, and across two volumes at that?

Interview: Jaga Jazzist

Ben Hogwood

Principal composer, band leader and tenor sax parper Lars Horntveth on the Norwegians' fifth album One-Armed Bandit.

Interview: Editors

Helen Clarke

Tom Smith on working alone, being cast as a dark lord and why Lady GaGa's music makes him want to kill himself.

Interview: The Hidden Cameras

Darren Harvey

Joel Gibb on lyrical expectations, knowing audiences, men who look like him and the endless possibilities of music in a live setting.

Interview: Jesca Hoop

Helen Clarke

Tom Waits' sometime live-in nanny gets used to her new home city Manchester's music, language and weather.

Comment: The Great Streaming Debate

Melnyk

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.

Feature: The Definitive Ian Dury

DB Telford

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.

Interview: Midlake

Michael Cragg

Front man Tim Smith on bucolic influences, Radiohead and the Texan folk-rockers' third album The Courage Of Others.

Interview: The Magnetic Fields

Darren Harvey

Stephin Merritt on the wearisome nature of piano tuning, the joys of London's gay bars and reasons for travelling to Scandinavia.

Interview: Yeasayer

Hannah Forbes Black

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.

Interview: Los Campesinos!

Helen Clarke

The Welsh indie-poppers prepare to unleash their third album sans keyboardist Aleks. Has her departure changed the group's dynamic?

Interview: Matthew Herbert

Michael Hubbard

The DJ, producer, big band leader, label owner and solo artist on his One trilogy, big band inspirations, the future of music, politics and why dubstep's where it's at.

Interview: Fyfe Dangerfield

Michael Hubbard

A lone Guillemot spreads his wings and takes flight to a Yellow Moon. It seems to be a contented sort of place.

Interview: Field Music

Helen Clarke

After time away on solo projects, the Brewis Brothers are back with a new line-up and a double album.

Interview: Gabby Young

Ceiri O'Driscoll

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.

Interview: Delphic

Helen Clarke

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.