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Album: Matthew Dear, Black City (Ghostly International)

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Published Aug. 14, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.

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Black City is the fifth album in seven years from electronic pop maestro Matthew Dear (under his own name at least – he also aliases as Jabberjaw, Audion and False) ...

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Maximo Park's Paul Smith: 'Solo album is born from seven-year itch'

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Published Aug. 13, 2010 at 5:38 a.m.

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Frontman speaks about releasing his own record ...

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Hot Chip, School Of Seven Bells, Panda Bear added to Moogfest line-up

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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 4:20 p.m.

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Acts will join Massive Attack, MGMT and Jonsi at the North Carolina event ...

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Full circle: Why is Sandie Shaw back on stage?

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Sandie Shaw is giving me a guided tour of her feet. "That's been taken off." She rubs her finger along the side of her shapely right foot just below a purple-nailed big toe. "Bunions?" I say, nervously, for these are celebrated size seven-and-a-halfs. As she was clocking up three number ones in the mid 1960s ("Always Something There to Remind Me", "Long Live Love" and "Puppet on a String"), Shaw was labelled "the barefoot pop princess" on account of her habit of singing on stage without shoes

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Blur To Release Brand New Material

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Published April 8, 2010 at 9:55 p.m.

The band will put out a seven inch single to celebrate Record Store Day ...

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Record Company Didn't Like 'Seven Nation Army' Says Jack White

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Published March 30, 2010 at 8:00 a.m.

The White Stripes classic almost didn't make it as a single ...

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Channel 4 finally ditches Friends

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Published Feb. 10, 2010 at 10:46 a.m.

Channel 4 is to end its 15-year association with hit TV series Friends, it was announced today. The show - which made worldwide stars of Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston - continues to be a nightly staple of the broadcaster's digital channel E4, despite ending almost six years ago. C4 said today that ending the deal next year will - together with the end of Big Brother - free up more cash for original programming and US buy-ins. The station has agreed with Warner Bros - the programme's

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Honeyboy Edwards: Delta bluesman

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Published Jan. 23, 2010 at 7:06 p.m.

Paul Jones, Radio 2 DJ and voice of Manfred Mann, on the last surviving friend of the great Robert Johnson ... "He's a living piece of history. He first recorded for Alan Lomax and the Library of Congress in 1942 and he's still doing it seven decades later. The friendship with Robert Johnson is hugely significant, and for that reason, someone once said that he might be more important as a raconteur than as a musician ... "He did my Radio 2 rhythm and blues show, and talked about being with

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Massive Attack: Heligoland (Virgin)

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Published Jan. 23, 2010 at 7:05 p.m.

The Bristolians' long-awaited fifth LP is a tale of two halves ... Just as you can tell a lot about a person by the company he or she keeps, so the scale of a band's ambition can be gauged by their guest vocalists. On paper, then, Massive Attack's first album in seven years should mark a return to their glory days and the unparalleled Protection and Blue Lines ... There are contributions from Elbow star Guy Garvey, 3D's old mucker Damon Albarn, Hope Sandoval of 90s dream pop cult act Mazzy

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Pinetop Perkins: the oldest living bluesman

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Published Jan. 23, 2010 at 7:05 p.m.

Seasick Steve on the man who connects him to the past ... "My dad told me about Pinetop originally so I have a kind of an emotional connection to him. My daddy was the same age as he is [Pinetop is now 96] and he played boogie-woogie piano back in the early 30s, and Pinetop just reminded me of him. Even though he's a black man, he's so much like my daddy ... "We recorded together about five or six years ago ... I have this old piece-of-shit guitar I play, and he was telling me, 'I started out as

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