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[Film Review] L7: Pretend We’re Dead – UK Premiere at Doc ‘n Roll Film Festival

Director Sarah Price’s crowdfunded L7 documentary is a “rags to riches to rags” tale of the LA Grunge band from 1985-2001 and subsequent reformation in 2015. L7: Pretend We’re Dead is a fairly standard chronological rock-doc made up of talking heads, tour footage and backstage antics. Price had over 100 hours of footage to go…
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Doc’ n Roll Film Festival returns to London in November

The fourth edition of Doc’ n Roll Film Festival, the UK’s Music Documentary Festival will take place in London from 2nd-19th November. The programme kicks off with A Winding Road: A Ramble with Richard Thompson at Picturehouse Central, featuring a Q&A with Thompson and director Edmond Deraedt. The rest of the line up includes the London Premiere…
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[Album Review] Hannah Peel – Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia

I recently drove out into the wilds of Somerset with Mary Casio playing. As my car climbed the steep winding ascent of the Mendip Hills around Charterhouse, the insistent horn, synth and vocal fanfare of Sunset Through the Dusty Nebula perfectly evoked the feeling that I was breaking out, bursting through the cloud cover and…
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Hannah Peel streams ‘Archid Orange Dwarf’

From the album Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia, out September 22nd on My Own Pleasure. The album is a arranged for analogue synths and a brass band, and tells the story of an elderly electronic musician and her desire to travel from her home in Barnsley to see Cassiopeia for herself. Live shows for Mary…
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[Live Dates] Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Tour Next Month

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah support their first album in four years with a UK and Ireland tour next month, kicking off on board Thekla in Bristol. The dates are: 13th Sep – Bristol – Thekla 14th Sep – Manchester – Gorilla 15th Sep – Dublin – Whelans (SOLD OUT) 16th Sep – Glasgow –…
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Interpol celebrate two anniversaries with reissue and tour

Interpol are celebrating the tenth anniversary of their third album, Our Love to Admire, with three special expanded-edition reissues via UMC: a two-LP vinyl set, a double LP with bonus DVD, and a CD/DVD set. The DVD features a live set from 2007 at London’s Astoria The band are also celebrating fifteen years of since…
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[Music News] Concert @ City, University of London – Roya Arab

Roya Arab, who has collaborated with the likes of Grooverider and her sister, the electronic artist Leila, will be singing her songs of protest at City University on May 2nd at 7pm in the Performance Space at City, University of London. Admission is free. According to the University event page, ‘Reflecting the concept of Weltschmerz,…
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