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Ask 411 Music 11.17.11: The TGIF Edition

5195 days ago

411 Mania — Who composed and sang all those songs for ABC's TGIF lineup? What ever happened to the Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Lou Reed friendship? What's the current top American holiday album? All this and more in this week's edition of Ask 411 Music! more info

New band of the day – No 1,149: Citizens!

5196 days ago

Guardian Music — Produced by Alex Kapranos, this promising lot operate a hair's breadth from Franz Ferdinand's funkily acerbic styleHometown: London.The lineup: Martyn, Thom, Tom, Lawrence, Mike.The background: They're evidently running out of band names. There's jus... more info

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The power of shyness: Ryuichi Sakamoto's European tour – review

5197 days ago

Guardian Music — Music of refinement and learning, with a bossa nova twistThe many young Japanese in the audience confirmed the interest pianist and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto still prompts. He was idolised in the days of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, an electro-pop t... more info

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Good Frames: Still

5198 days ago

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Amy Walker Good Frames is the project of Berlin based musician Frank Cifarelli. He put in a lot of time and effort playing, programming and producing his debut EP Still. Eighties New Wave is a huge, with a hint of Euro disco thrown in, especi... more info

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New band of the day – Slow Moving Millie (No 1,147)

5200 days ago

Guardian Music — On her covers album of 80s alt-anthems, Amelia Warner transforms synthetic songs into pure-voiced, piano balladsHometown: Herefordshire.The lineup: Amelia Warner (vocals, piano).The background: You may not have heard of Amelia Warner, who goes by the... more info

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BBCSO/Jiří Bělohlávek – review

5201 days ago

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonReceiving its world premiere in this BBC Symphony Orchestra programme under Jiří Bělohlávek was C, by Jiří Kadeřábek. The 33-year-old Czech composer comes from a jazz/pop background and acknowledges such widely divergent influ... more info

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Innocence Stolen: Thieves Steal Cookie Money From Girl Scouts!

5201 days ago

Perez Hilton — How rude!!! Police in Bowie, Maryland are on the hunt for two big, old meanies who actually stole from a group of Girl Scouts selling cookies. Last week, the troop was outside a local Wal-Mart, bringing joy, happiness and Thin Mints to their neighbor... more info

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The Horrors Cover Bowie

5202 days ago

Chorus.fm — Watch *The Horrors* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/thehorrors) cover *David Bowie* (http://www.davidbowie.com)'s "Suffragette City" live in session for On Track with SEAT in the replies. more info

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The Horrors Cover David Bowie’s “Suffragette City”

5202 days ago

Stereogum — Here we are with the Horrors, adepts of fashionable retro-rock synthesis, adeptly tackling Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust wham-bam-thank-you-mammer for Channel 4′s On Track… programme. It’s a live take, but recorded in LDN’s Metropolis studio with ... more info

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