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Public Image Limited, Buzzcocks, Hadouken! added to Bingley Music Live Festival line-up

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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 3:48 p.m.

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Acts join The Enemy, James and Professor Green at the Yorkshire event ...

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Music: James Taylor and Marc Cohn Revive 1970

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Published Aug. 14, 2010 at 11:45 p.m.

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Pop music has witnessed its share of unlikely comebacks this year but perhaps the least expected is that of the year 1970, just in time for its 40th anniversary ...

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Music: Kem and José James Perform in New York

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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 11:45 p.m.

Thereâ€™s a blurry but smooth-sounding line between jazz and soul, as shown by singers including Kem and José James ...

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Funkadelic and Parliament guitarist Phelps 'Catfish' Collins dies

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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 9:01 a.m.

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Legendary musician also played with James Brown ...

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Parliament Guitarist Phelps "Catfish" Collins Dies at 66

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Phelps "Catfish" Collins, the legendary funk guitarist who played with James Brown and Parliament/Funkadelic, died Friday in Cincinnati after a battle with cancer. He was 66. "My world will never be the same without him," said his brother Bootsy Collins in a statement. "Be happy for him, he certainly is ...

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James Blackshaw, 'All Is Falling' (Young God)

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 3:39 p.m.

For his ninth LP of pastoral plucking, British guitarist James Blackshaw graduates from gifted fingerpicker to masterful composer, combining John Fahey's tender arpeggios and Terry Riley's cycling rhythms. Presented as a 45-minute suite, All Is Falling sweeps his electric 12-string into a tangle of keening cellos, dive-bombing violins, pinprick glockenspiels, and clacking percussion. It's essentially a chattering crescendo of melody and tension, with piano-based snowdrifts giving way to

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Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, 'Hawk' (Vanguard)

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 3:37 p.m.

Isobel Campbell wrote and produced nearly all the songs on her previous two collaborations with former Screaming Trees/Queens of the Stone Age growler Mark Lanegan, and this time, the ex–Belle and Sebastian singer-cellist takes complete control of the album's direction. Yet her wispy voice recedes further into the background, as the genial creak of folk-pop prodigy Willy Mason complements Lanegan's foreboding rumble, and James Iha lends tastefully bluesy guitar. Overall, Hawk faithfully

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Manics' James Hails His "Heroes"

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Published July 26, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.

Guns N' Roses, Velvets, Bunnymen legends join "last shot at mass communication" ...

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What we're up to at Latitude...

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Published July 9, 2010 at 9:34 a.m.

As part of our commitment to bring all sorts of gaiety and innovation to this year's Latitude festival, we're thrilled to be able to announce that we've organised a signing tent at the event, where ticket-holders can meet some of the performers, and have their programmes/souvenirs/body parts signed. Confirmed so far are the following: ... Friday ... Richard Hawley (right) ... The National ... Eddie Argos ... Saturday ... Yeasayer ... Ardal O' Halon ... James ... The Horrors ... David Ford ...

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