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Festival Review: End of the Road Festival 2011

Festival Review: End of the Road 2011

by Melanie McGovern 9 September 2011 Live Reviews

End of the Road festival yet again evaded the wet weather bookending it, and returned to the Larmer Tree gardens in Salisbury with a new layout, new ‘The Woods’ stage and perhaps its most varied line up yet.

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New Channel 4 Series – Rockfeedback Presents

by Alex 24 August 2011 Music News

A new series of Rockfeedback Presents will air on Channel 4 at the end of August into early October 2011. It will feature Robyn, Noah & The Whale, Joanna Newsom, Bombay Bicycle Club, Laura Marling, PJ Harvey, Animal Collective, Fleet Foxes and more.

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Joanna Newsom in Paris

Joanna Newsom in Paris (Video)

by Alex 10 August 2011 Video

The following video of Joanna Newsom was recorded at Le Trianon, Paris on July 25, 2011. She treated the crowd to a second encore as well!

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Puzzle Muteson

Puzzle Muteson – En Garde

by Melanie McGovern 19 April 2011 Reviews

Puzzle Muteson is the latest artist to join the Bedroom Community label. His debut recording En Garde plays out a spellbinding and hauntingly evocative fairytale of emotions of one man’s imagination.

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Fleet Foxes reveal video to Grown Ocean

Fleet Foxes reveal Documentary Film

by Alex 30 March 2011 Music News

Fleet Foxes have just revelealed a video to the song Grown Ocean taken from their forthcoming album Helplessness Blues. The video features documentary footage which you can watch below along with an earlier documentary covering Robin Pecknold opening for Joanna Newsom.

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Fleet Foxes Tour Documentary

by Alex 28 July 2010 Music News

I was wondering what Fleet Foxes were upto this week when I was looking at some of the new rising stars and remembered the impact they made back in 2008. They don’t appear as prevalent in the media so I paid a visit to their Facebook page to find mention of a new website. I [...]

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Live Review – Joanna Newsom at The Royal Festival Hall

by Melanie McGovern 13 May 2010 Live Reviews

Joanna Newsom has come a long way since her 2004 debut The Milk Eyed Mender: a collection of short heartfelt songs, almost nursery rhymes telling of mollusc weddings and dragons. Written by an Elfin-like creature who appears to be a modern incarnation of Pre-Raphaelite painting The Lady of Shallot, she sings in a shrill accapella [...]

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Frukie Playlist for 4th May

by Alex 5 May 2010 Music News

I occasionally post details of past playlists to give a flavour of what we play. This is the Frukie playlist for 4th May 2010. Maybe at some point in the future when we have more time on our hands we’ll post them daily. The image is of Michael Hurley who has been making incredible alternative [...]

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Holly Throsby

Holly Throsby

by Alex 28 March 2010 Reviews

Holly Throsby is, for want of a better word, a travelling troubador, whose deeply personal lyrics and warming voice have made her the winner of many hearts both at home in Australia and abroad.

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Visions of Joanna Newsom (new book out on 5th February)

by Alex 3 February 2010 Art and Culture

Roan Press are excited to announce the launch of Visions of Joanna Newsom, a book of essays, poems, and art responding to Joanna Newsom’s evocative, controversial work.

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Joanna Newsom – New album and a Retrospective Interview

by Alex 13 January 2010 Interviews

Joanna Newsom, or her label, are being mysterious over the possible release of a new album. It’s a good way of getting people talking. Well look at this post! If you visit Drag City on this page you’ll be faced with a link titled “The noose…um, draws closer”. All a bit strange or rather very [...]

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