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Close Out The Summer

Alternative Music Festivals

For the past few months, Rob Da Bank’s handwritten planning sheets have been getting messier and messier. Unlike other operators, the BBC Radio 1 DJ and the man behind Bestival, the much-loved event on the Isle of Wight that goes down every September, prefers to plan his entire festival using pen and paper.
“My team keep on trying to persuade me to use spreadsheets, Excel and all this computer stuff,” says the DJ otherwise known as Robert Gorham (b.1973). “I just can’t get to grips with looking at a computer screen and bringing that to life in the same way...”

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Born Ruffians

Tell it like it is: Growing Up and the Importance of Communication

You already know Born Ruffians. The track Hummingbird from their previous album, Red, Yellow and Blue (2008) is instantly recognisable since it featured on Orange advertising campaigns and an episode of popular British drama Skins. Bassist, Mitch Derosier, is modest about this coup, musing that the successes, “were huge parts of us being able to tour the UK and gather a following. It came about because the director of the Skins episode liked the song and just asked us to be in the show.” You commonly find that when a song is so instantly catchy the follow-up album doesn’t live up to expectations, but if Say It is anything to go by, Born Ruffians has avoided the clutches of one-hit wonderland...

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The Role of the Producer

Music Producers

A singer or a songwriter doesn't have to work that hard. Some would no doubt disagree - especially in the throes of writer's block or in the push to get an album finished, but once the perfect take is captured in studio, the main bulk of their work for that particular song is done.

Not so for the producer. Sure, they're responsible for creating and shaping the music, but the job of a professional producer is so much more. They have to be psychologist, voice coach, svengali and cheerleader...

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Moving from Grey to Living in Colour

Frigtened Rabbit

Scotland and Indie rock bands go hand-in-hand. Think The Twilight Sad, Idlewild, The Fratellis and Biffy Clyro. Hailing from this breeding-ground of talent, more specifically Selkirk, is Frightened Rabbit. The band is front-man, Scott Hutchison's creation, joined in the early days by his percussionist brother, Grant. Hutchison's childhood tendencies to become antisocial when faced with other children earned him the moniker "Frightened Rabbit" from his mother. The reason this name resonates says a lot about the band's emotional and personal influences. "I'm definitely an observer rather than one to take part, and that plays a part in the way I see and respond to the world."

Archived Articles

2010 articles

Can a Soundtrack Take a Band to the Top? Film Soundtracks
Sound Art Painting with a Microphone
Kathryn Williams The Quickening of Time
The Postmarks An Exploration of Cinematic Narratives

2009 articles

A.A.Bondy Unleashing Inner Demons
Acoustic Ladyland Living with a Tiger
Brakes Earth is Pretty Good
Cortney Tidwell Interview
First Aid Kit Age is just a number
Kill it Kid Interview
Morton Valence Interview
Promo for the People How artists are doing it for themselves
Richard Swift Prince sitting in on the Plastic Ono Band
Telekinesis From Seattle to Tokyo
This CD Doesn't Sell Re-envisioning the Music Business
Woodstock 40 Year Anniversary

2008 articles

Alina Orlova Music, art & the individual
Born Ruffians Interview
Free Kitten Inherit
Fujiya & Miyagi A unique take on modern pop music
Gang Gang Dance Painting with sound
Gonzales Interview
Gregory and the Hawk Growth & collective inspirartion
Jamie Lidell Interview
Je Suis Animal Self-Taught Magic from a Book
Malcolm Middleton Away from the mainstream
Peggy Sue and the Pirates Interview
Port O'Brien Interview
Surrounded Interview
Tall Firs Interview
Thao Interview
Thea Gilmore Honesty and Intimacy
Tunng Interview
Underground Railroad Interview
White Denim Interview

2007 articles

Alabama 3 Interview
Alice McLaughlin Interview
Ash Twilight Of The Innocents
Bat For Lashes World Domination
Brett Anderson Love is Dead
Built To Spill You In Reverse
Charlotte Hatherley The Deep Blue
Findlay Brown Seperated By The Sea
Good Shoes A Step in the Right Direction
Gravenhurst The Western Lands
iLiKETRAiNS Elegies To Lessons Learnt
Jesse Malin Glitter In The Gutter
Lisa Lindley-Jones Interview
Maxïmo Park Our Earthly Pleasures
Operator Please Interview
Pigeon Detectives Interview
Poppy & The Jezebels Interview
Sonic Youth Interview
Thurston Moore Trees Outside The Academy
You Say Party! We Say Die! Lose All Time

Reviews

A.A.Bondy When The Devil's Loose
Acoustic Ladyland Living With A Tiger
Astrid Williamson Here Come the Vikings
Asobi Seksu Acoustic at Olympic Studios
Awesome Color Electric Aborigines
Balky Mule The Length of the Rail
Bastila Bastila
Bat For Lashes Two Suns
Caitlin Rose Dead Flowers
Efterklang Performing Parades
First Aid Kit The Big Black and the Blue
Frightened Rabbit Winter of Mixed Drinks
Jookabox Dead Zone Boys
Laura Gibson Beasts of Seasons
Larry Tee Club Badd
Lecube From Here to Now
Little Dragon Machine Dreams
Maxïmo Park Quicken The Heart
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson Self-Titled Album
Millimetre Heliography
Morton Valence Bob and Veronica Ride Again
Oh No Ono Eggs
Ólöf Arnalds Við og Við
One Day International Blackbird
Phil Kieran Shh
Portico Quartet Isla
The Postmarks Memoirs At the End of the World
RDA Recommended Daily Allowance
The Revolution Revolution
Royal City Royal City
Samara Lubelski Future Slip
Sennen Age of Danial
Soft Core My Robot Friend
Sonic Youth The Eternal
Telekinesis Telekinesis!
Twilight Sad Forget The Night Ahead

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