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Live Performance Of “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
“Probably one of the weirdest gigs I’ve ever done” – Peter Hook

Peter Hook Supports New Order Tribute With Live Performance Of “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
Peter Hook, legendary bassist for New Order, Joy Division, Revenge, Monaco and now Freebass, performed with London band DETACHMENTS at a children’s charity [...]

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Italian musician Stefano Panunzi0, creates an atmospheric Art Rock sound pitched somewhere between the elegance of David Sylvian, Talk Talk and No-Man and the rock sensibility of Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree. Now he has moved on with a new band: Fjieri.
Ten years in the making, Fjieri’s debut album Endless represents the satisfying conclusion to [...]

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Drink Up Buttercup

Tour Dates Announced

10/31 – PA’s Lounge – Somerville, MA
11/10 – The Zodiac – Baltimore, MD (w/ Blood Warrior)
11/11 – Kung Fu Necktie – Philadelphia, PA (w/ Blood Warrior)
11/12 – Union Hall – Brooklyn, NY – (w/ Blood Warrior)
11/16 – The Social – Orlando, FL (w/ Stellastarr*)
11/17 – Whirlyball – Atlanta, GA (w/ Stellastarr*)
11/18 – Local [...]

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Dave Stewart (keyboards) and Barbara Gaskin (vocals) are English musicians who have been working together since 1981, when their first single ‘It’s My Party’ reached number one in the UK. Since then they have built a reputation for creating intelligent pop music. The duo release their music on their own independent Broken Records label and [...]

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"No opportunity necessary" from "Time and a Word" Nov 69

“The Lost Broadcasts”, a DVD now available from Voiceprint, contains early television appearances of the Yes band between 1969 and 1971 with the band showcasing tracks from their first three albums. Among the rarities here are unseen takes as well as footage that has not been seen or properly presented since they were filmed around [...]

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Blacklist

Blacklist Announce Shows, Including Debut Performances On The West Coast

11/04 – Union Hall – Brooklyn, NY (w/The Mary Onettes)
11/14 – Nomad – Los Angeles, CA
11/15 – The Knockout – San Francisco, CA
11/19 – Death By Audio – Brooklyn, NY (Veil Veil Vanish)

To listen to Blacklist is to listen to people who have chosen to stand [...]

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Prairie Cartel

AWARD WINNING CULT DIRECTOR TAKES RISKS ON DIRECTION OF The Prairie Cartel’s video “No Light Escapes Here.”
Award-winning Chinese director Peng Lei (an accomplished filmmaker/animator whose clay animation film “Beihai Monster” from 2006 was a hit in the Chinese indie-film world and has won numerous awards) discovered The Prairie Cartel’s music online and reached out to [...]

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Music From a Walled Garden, the new solo album by Dirk ‘Mont’ Campbell.
Mont was founder member and main composer of the experimental rock group Egg (1969-1972). The CD is a sequel to his 1996 solo work Music from a Round Tower, which was placed third in the International Green Dolphin Critics’ Awards for that year, [...]

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The band who formed in 2002, came together as a foursome of childhood friends and kindred sprits and went on to release three critically acclaimed albums; the first Capture/Release in 2005, followed by Ten New Messages in 2007 and Klang (2009). Both the October UK tour and American dates are cancelled and full refunds [...]

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I guess Spiral Stairs is my name now...

I guess Spiral Stairs is my name now…

Formerly the front-man of Preston School Of Industry, and guitarist, singer and founding member with Pavement, Scott Kannberg returns to our turntables with his first solo album, The Real Feel, credited to his long-running nom-du-rock, Spiral Stairs.
“I guess Spiral Stairs is my name now,” he laughs. “It [...]

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Dulcima the new album from Rhys Marsh and the Autumn Ghost

Following on the success of the critically-acclaimed debut album, ‘The Fragile State Of Inbetween’, Rhys Marsh returns with ‘Dulcima’, his second Autumn Ghost album in the space of a year.
From the provocative saunter of ‘In The Afterglow’, via the requiem-esque ‘Divide In Silence’, the snake-charmer’s swagger of ‘Nine Times Beautiful’, and the deceptively-innocent lilt of [...]

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Produced within the four walls of a former DDR radio station in East Berlin, The Rakes are set to release their third album, ‘Klang’, digitally on October 20th in the US.
The album has been available as a UK import since March. It’s been over two years from their previous album, ‘Ten New Messages’ (2007), and [...]