Music previews

Grizzly Bear

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The List 
15 October 2009

Modern American indie heroes show off their brilliant new record, Veckatimest

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Little Boots

Category: Interviews, Music previews

The List 
10 September 2009
 

Giant Steps
With her upcoming tour Little Boots faces the tough job of living up to a year’s worth of hype and anticipation. Claire Sawers finds her ready to face the music

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David Byrne - Edge Festival Edinburgh

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The List
Edinburgh Festival Guide
13 July 2009
 

Former Talking Heads leader returns to his groundbreaking collaborative roots

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Simian Mobile Disco

Category: Interviews, Music previews

The List
25 June 2009

Simian Mobile Disco might regret the name, but Claire Sawers finds they’re serious about good tunes
‘We like our live shows to be a more austere, leaner version of our studio stuff,’says James (Jas) Shaw, one half of techno-pop duo, Simian Mobile Disco. For their recent crowd-rocking show at Primavera, Barcelona, laser lights [...]

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The Big Pink

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The List
2 April 2009

 
 
 
 

Milo Cordell and Robbie Furze have come a long way since their days of running club nights in a disused horse hospital in Islington. ‘We were both really into industrial noise,’ says Cordell. ‘Just noise. Like kkkssshhh. Kkkrrr. Distorted noise. For hours,’ he laughs. ‘We’d get all these freaks coming in, like [...]

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Come On Gang!

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The List
3 July 2008

‘I’m a nightmare on a train,’ says Sarah Tanat Jones, drummer and lead singer of Come on Gang!

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Camille O’Sullivan

Category: Music previews

The List
Edinburgh Festival Guide
22 July 2008

 
Smouldering, sassy, sexy songbook stuff from the dark angel
Sliding onstage in a red corset and heels, sipping a glass of red wine, French-Irish chanteuse Camille O’Sullivan likes keeping her audience on their toes when she performs.

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The Sadies

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Metro
28 October 2008
Brilliantly named for a career in country music, Dallas Good and his brother, Travis, take turns fronting Canadian four-piece The Sadies.

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Errors

Category: Music previews

Metro
7 October 2008
Errors make no mistake electro
When this Glasgow band first got together four years ago, they wanted to sound ‘a bit like New Order’. Either they were being modest, or maybe they really didn’t realise how far-reaching their take on electro would end up being.

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Fujiya & Miyagi

Category: Music previews

Metro
23 September 2008
After their addictive 2006 album, Transparent Things, Brighton’s Fujiya & Miyagi returned last month with their third LP, Lightbulbs.

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