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The Feelies, Reconsidered

After a short chat with Feelies co-chairman Glenn Mercer, co-leader of The Feelies, writer Kieran Curran started thinking about the seminal rock band's place in our modern times...

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Daniel Johnston: Is And Always Was

On his first album in 6 years, Daniel Johnston plunders his record collection but doesn't come up with all that much.

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Times New Viking: Born Again Revisited

From Columbus, Ohio ("where people drink beer and smoke cigarettes"), Times New Viking continue the war against fidelity on their fourth album.

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Soft Subversions by Felix Guattari

An anti-establishment political bent is evident throughout. The eclecticism is never boring, however, and Guattari would certainly have wanted it that way. Recommended.

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Pink Flag by Wilson Neate

Neate's book encourages a discourse on LPs which could be lost but which stubbornly survives; the vinyl jostles with mp3s for (real and virtual) space in certain hipsters' record collections.

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The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan by Kevin Dettmar (editor)

Aspects of Robert Zimmerman's oeuvre are pieced apart by mainly Englit minded mavens -- Dylan is very well read, it's well known, but what about the music?

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The Wave Pictures: If You Leave It Alone

It's a hard balance to strike between words and music, but when music becomes incidental to words that aren't really that striking, it's a little frustrating.

Kieran Curran

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Peter Broderick: Music for Falling From Trees

Broderick is part of the field of popular music which embraces elements of modern classical, yet also crosses over with the artier end of rock, folk, and so on.

Kieran Curran

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We Were Promised Jetpacks: These Four Walls

There must be something in the water up there, as the debut by Fat Cat's latest signing from Northern Britain attests.

Kieran Curran

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British Animation by Clare Kitson

Kitson offers an account of some of the stranger characters behind the scenes at Britain's "alternative" programming station, in all their weird glory.

Kieran Curran

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After a short chat with Feelies co-chairman Glenn Mercer, co-leader of The Feelies, writer Kieran Curran started thinking about the seminal rock band's place in our modern times...

Traditional and untraditional folk combine for an intriguing, engaging EP from one of Scotland's most interesting songwriters

On his first album in 6 years, Daniel Johnston plunders his record collection but doesn't come up with all that much.

From Columbus, Ohio ("where people drink beer and smoke cigarettes"), Times New Viking continue the war against fidelity on their fourth album.

An anti-establishment political bent is evident throughout. The eclecticism is never boring, however, and Guattari would certainly have wanted it that way. Recommended.

Neate's book encourages a discourse on LPs which could be lost but which stubbornly survives; the vinyl jostles with mp3s for (real and virtual) space in certain hipsters' record collections.

Aspects of Robert Zimmerman's oeuvre are pieced apart by mainly Englit minded mavens -- Dylan is very well read, it's well known, but what about the music?

It's a hard balance to strike between words and music, but when music becomes incidental to words that aren't really that striking, it's a little frustrating.

Broderick is part of the field of popular music which embraces elements of modern classical, yet also crosses over with the artier end of rock, folk, and so on.

There must be something in the water up there, as the debut by Fat Cat's latest signing from Northern Britain attests.

Kitson offers an account of some of the stranger characters behind the scenes at Britain's "alternative" programming station, in all their weird glory.