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Matthew Herbert to headline British Council anniversary concert

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 04:56 AM PDT

Matthew Herbert, of weird sound production techniques is to headline a celebration concert for the 75th anniversary of the British Council later this year.

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Mew - No More Stories...

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 05:50 AM PDT

Where to begin with Mew? For over a decade they've turned out a heady concoction of rock music, flirting with shoegaze and progressive tendencies while maintaining an ethereal charm increasingly their own. Though their feet dangle in waters grandiloquent, they're far from being swept away - their...

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Mos Def - The Ecstatic

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 05:01 AM PDT

Dante Terrell Smith seemed to have lost all interest in the rap game. Though his acting career could never be considered a vanity project of the likes of his gangsterish peers – he's starred in films since the age of 14 – his prolific Hollywood turn

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The Get Up Kids at Camden Electric Ballroom, Camden, Wed 19 Aug

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 02:49 AM PDT

After a spate of dodgy reunions over the last few years, news that The Get Up Kids were back together was not met with a raised eyebrow but a rush of joy and a relief that perhaps the world wasn't so bad after all.

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David Daniell and Douglas McCombs - Sycamore

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 02:49 AM PDT

Typically rock and roll is regarded as a young man's game, that no-one over the age of about 27 should even look at a guitar for fear of embarrassing themselves. But when you consider that the best that youngsters seem to be able to offer at the moment

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Part Chimp announce UK Autumn tour in support of new album

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 02:51 AM PDT

Rock Action signed noise-merchants, Part Chimp are off an a grand-old tour of the UK in September, taking in the sights of the great cities and Folkestone, too.

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From the Archive: A Girly Guide to The Reading Festival

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 08:38 AM PDT

Aaahhhh, Reading. That glorious weekend where, for a few sunny [perhaps] days you can forget your worldly woes, throw hygiene to the wind and rock out for the weekend, oblivious to the fact that by Sunday you probably smell like the underside of a pig's trotter. Shyeaah. Fuck that for a laugh. For...

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Reading & Leeds 2008: all of our content compiled

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 03:05 AM PDT

From the archive... We spent the last week or more previewing, digesting and sharing Drowned in Sound's experience of Reading and Leeds Festival 2008. Here's all our content, in case you missed anything... now with added Friendly Fires live clip and a report of Day Three

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Black Sabbath to reissue five deluxe albums from back catalogue

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 08:13 AM PDT

Godfathers/fathers/just plain gods of metal and heavy blues-rock, Black Sabbath are to re-issue five albums from their back catalogue, with all five being made into deluxe editions with spangly extras and incentives to buy.

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Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 03:42 AM PDT

The abrupt uncommercial curveball record from a big-selling, once zeitgeist-imbued artist is a bitch to review upon release, because it comes weighed down with such distracting baggage.

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