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40 From 40 Plus 10: 2016

1815 days ago

Sweeping The Nation — The round-up of the decade about to close reaches that most dread of years, 2016. You know, when Bowie, Prince, George Michael, Leonard Cohen, George Martin etc all died we were told by some in the press that as our heroes aged this would be happenin... more info

40 From 40 Plus 10: 2014

1822 days ago

Sweeping The Nation — "That rock'n'roll, eh?" Our documentation of how we see the years of this decade in retrospect continues into 2014, the year Alex Turner made a stand for... something at the Brits. We were somehow unsurprised to find Radio X were still callin... more info

Alex Turner Ed Sheeran U2 Taylor Swift Kate Bush Future Islands Perfume Genius Wild Beasts Caribou Flying Lotus Kendrick Lamar FKA twigs Skepta Cloud Nothings White Lung Adebisi Shank Sylvan Esso Johnny Foreigner Foreigner September Girls Nadine Shah Spoon Stanley Brinks The Wave Pictures First Aid Kit Sharon Van Etten Slow Club David Thomas Broughton Gruff Rhys Owen Pallett Summer Camp

40 From 40 Plus 10: 2011

1832 days ago

Sweeping The Nation — Onwards with our overview of the decade just passing, and today we alight on the year we were confidently repeatedly told that Jessie J was inevitably going to be an enormous international star. She did have a Billboard top ten album in 2014, but whe... more info

Jessie J One Direction Amy Winehouse BeyoncÃ© Rizzle Kicks R.E.M. LCD Soundsystem The Lovely Eggs Johnny Foreigner Foreigner Dananananaykroyd Three Trapped Tigers Maybeshewill Mogwai Lykke Li I Break Horses Fujiya & Miyagi The Weeknd Slow Club Lana Del Rey Other Lives Woodkid Fleet Foxes Bill Callahan David Thomas Broughton Wild Beasts PJ Harvey Fixers GIVERS Los Campesinos! Race Horses

40 From 40: 2007

2612 days ago

Sweeping The Nation — Looks like we made it to the end. We close with ten years ago, another of those years right at the end of this survey in which it's driven more by what STN was writing about at the time then what else was happening as the alternative rapidly segr... more info

Those Dancing Days Los Campesinos! Johnny Foreigner Foreigner Blood Red Shoes Sky Larkin Foals Crystal Castles Au Revoir Simone Kleerup LCD Soundsystem M.I.A. Caribou Holy Fuck Arcade Fire The Acorn Grinderman

STN recommends: 2/6/17

2731 days ago

Sweeping The Nation — It's only been a week and again EVERYONE has decided to release new material for us to pick carefully through and highlight the peaks rather than foothills of. May as well start with Arcade Fire, whose Everything Now - title track of album out Ju... more info

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STN recommends: 5/4/17

2789 days ago

Sweeping The Nation — Yr Poetry - These Are Not The Days Of Our LivesFor the course of 2017 sometime side project Yr Poetry is what Alexei and Junior of Johnny Foreigner are concentrating on. One Night Alive, is the first of three EPs promised this year, pay what you want... more info

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40 From 40: 2008

2791 days ago

Sweeping The Nation — For latecomers, this is the eleventh in our sequence of forty tracks to represent (as through our eyes at least) each of the pop years 1970 to 2009. So far we've covered 1972, 1976, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2002 and 2005. And now... 2... more info

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