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Seasick Steve, 'Treasures' -- Video Premiere
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Young Knives, 'Human Again' -- Video Premiere

Cat Stevens The misfits of the mid-noughties indie rock rival, you could argue that Young Knives took the eccentricity that has always been part of British rock's DNA to a new level. After all, which other bands base their videos on The Wicker Man or refer to their bassist as House of Lords? Yet the three piece from Leicestershire's quirky ...

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Metronomy, 'The Look' -- Exclusive Video Premiere

Phil Sharp Earlier this year, English electro-pop outfit Metronomy released the first single from their forthcoming third album, 'The English Riviera.' A gentle, brooding 5-minute drama with more than shade of the Cure, 'She Wants' seemed a fairly dramatic departure from the Kraftwerk-inspired jaunts of their early singles, when Jospeth ...

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Everything Everything, 'Final Form' -- Video Premiere

Petrus Olsson If Everything Everything's last single -- the re-released 'Photoshop Handsome' -- gave a fine account the British art rockers' unique sense of humour, then in their own words, 'Final Form' is an effort to show their "more serious side." Concerned with the "idea of a withering body," the second single from acclaimed debut album ...

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Patrick Wolf on Love and 'Lupercalia' -- Exclusive Video Interview

Heiko Prigge Fans of Patrick Wolf -- the flamboyant, precocious prince of Britain's alternative pop scene -- have come to expect the unexpected from the songwriter who walked away from a promising major-label deal to self-fund an industrial folk record (2009's 'The Bachelor'). Wolf's albums have veered from meticulously crafted ...

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Magnetic Man's Artwork on Dubstep, John Legend and 'Selling Out'

Jake Walters Artwork, Benga and Skream first met eleven years ago in a record shop in Croydon, where they became collaborators and pioneers in an underground sound we now know as dubstep. Fast forward a decade, and they're competing with the likes of James Blake, Burial and -- most astonishingly - Britney Spears in re-imagining their own ...

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Bright Eyes Discuss 'The People's Key' -- Exclusive Video Interview

Getty After a hiatus that saw him tour and record with side project the Mystic Valley Band and supergroup Monsters Of Folk, Conor Oberst has returned to his original moniker of Bright Eyes with the band's first release in four years. For an artist still closely associated with the prodigious, open-wound confessionals that made him the ...

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Smashing Pumpkins' 'Siamese Dream' Cover Story Was Hoax

Amazon | Michael Loccisano, Getty Images UPDATE: As Rolling Stone speculated and TMZ shows with photos, the story was all a hoax. It's a story that somehow feels like it belongs on an awful daytime chat show -- 'My New Bandmate Was My Album Artwork Child' -- yet here apparently that's just what's happened to one of the grunge era's biggest ...

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