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Adele is bigger than the Beatles……..on Last.fm that is
Shapely soul-popstress Adele is the most(over?)played artist in the world according to data from music discovery service, Last.fm. The weekly chart sees Adele on top for the first time, beating the...
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Arcade Fire to release limited edition 12″ vinyl pressing of ‘Sprawl II’ for...
A limited edition 12” vinyl pressing of Arcade Fire’s ‘Sprawl II’ and Ready To Start remixes will be released on 21 April via Sonovox to mark Record Store Day 2012. Sprawl II and Ready To Start in...
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Tales from the Attic Volume I ‘Revolutions of a 45 kind’
Indeed bright young things, the return of Tales from the Attic – re-floored and decorated and sporting a little sky light in the corner. Been a fair old while since we masqueraded under the tales from...
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Albums for 2013
You worn out with lists yet? The subjective lists of what was the best and worst of 2012 are done and dusted, and right now, it’s the turn of all those lists of who is going to be big in 2013. Some...
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Christianity In Rock
Rock music, as loosely understood – n’ roll, metal, hard, punk, grunge, alternative, new wave, garage – as opposed to Pop (fundamentally serious vs throwaway) is and has been the single most...
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Bowie’s Children: Under the Influence of Bowie
David Bowie has been voted the most influential man in popular music, beating Elvis on more than one occasion. His chameleon like career is such an eclectic treasure trove of magpie influences...
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RW/FF With Ben P Scott #31
This week: Bristol’s Figure 8 Festival takes place this weekend, I celebrate the return of ska-punk legends Culture Shock, and new albums from Troumaca and Arctic Monkeys are reviewed. As well as...
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Arcade Fire – Reflektor
It may be all very well to attract your celebrity mates (Bowie, bearded womble James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem) in off a New York back street into your studio to sprinkle some angel dust over...
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Track Of The Day #391: Arcade Fire – Normal Person
One of the most anticipated releases of the year is the fourth album by Arcade Fire, ‘Reflektor’, which came out this week. Leading the Canadian charge for indie rock domination, the Butlers and crew...
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Glastonbury Festival 2014
Twelve months ago the greatest music festival in the world was welcoming onto Worthy Farm as its principal headliner the greatest rock n roll band in the world, The Rolling Stones. This year the...
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NEWS: Arcade Fire release lead single from upcoming album
After premiering the song at a surprise concert in Barcelona on 1st June, prior to their headline slot at Primavera Sound, Arcade Fire share the title track from their upcoming fifth album, Everything...
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MIF17: Arcade Fire – Castlefield Bowl, Manchester, 6/7/17
When Arcade Fire were announced as part of this year’s Manchester International Festival (MIF17) I was more than sceptical, having seen the mighty Bjork at MIF15, in the very same place, as it would...
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Arcade Fire- Everything Now (Columbia)
“I think the internet was co-opted pretty early on by corporations. I don’t think anybody knew when we were signing up for Gmail accounts that we would be getting direct marketing of things we write in...
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GIITTV’s Top 50 Albums of 2017
After much debate, votes and input from our team we have compiled fifty of our favourite albums of 2017, by no means definitive, in truth we could have selected fifty more albums. Nevertheless this...
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Station to Station: David Bowie’s 25 best Collaborations
Last week marked two years since the death of David Bowie. Today, we turn to some of his key collaborative moments. Throughout his career David Bowie was constantly reinventing himself, magpie-picking...
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PREVIEW: Øya Festival, Oslo
When: 7th to 11th August 2018 Where: Tøyenparken, Oslo, Norway One of Scandinavia’s major music festivals gets under away again on 7th August until 11th August. The Øya Festival takes place in and...
View ArticleBest of the Decade: David Bentley’s Top Twenty Albums
My selection is partly influenced by my interest in Nordic music and therefore will be considerably different to everyone else’s at GIITTV but I’ve also thrown in a few leftfield, even off-the-wall...
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