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Contender for 2013’s best album could have been 1973’s best.

via www.theartsdesk.com   http://bit.ly/1gpAPiy

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Glastonbury has always held this amazing spot in our minds because it felt like a homecoming..... It felt like a mother's embrace - it was like a welcome home for us.

Marcus Mumford in the NME 13 July 2013

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....with its blissed-out harmonies, loping beats and delicious hooks, #Howlin can entrance without pharmaceutical assistance.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/music/albumreviews/article3778904.ece#

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Noel Gallagher: "Rock and roll will never die, 'cos NEIL YOUNG said so."

http://www.nme.com/nme-video/noel-gallagher---rocks-not-dead/1182488313001

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JAKE BUGG: "I've been listening to a lot of NEIL YOUNG.... and I think with these new songs you can kind of tell what I've been listening to."

NME 29th May 2013 http://www.nme.com/news/jake-bugg/70567

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BEST POP GIGS OF SUMMER 2013: It's 11 years since Neil Young came to Britain with the most legendary of his many backing bands. Judging by internet footage of them performing live in the US recently, time has only served to increase their desire to play their songs at enormous, trundling length – exactly what their fans want to hear. Tour begins at Newcastle Metro Radio Arena (neilyoung.com), 10 June

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/may/26/best-pop-gigs-albums-summer-2013

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May 18th / Plastic People / London  www.facebook.com/events/251822678291644

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Welsh four-piece Islet will be touring the UK this summer:

06 Jun - Nottingham, Chameleon

07 Jun - Bristol, Exchange

08 Jun - Cardiff, Shape Function at Chapter tickets

22 Jun - Carmarthen Old Town Festival 

04 Aug - Rhondda Rocks Festival

31 Aug - ArcTanGent Festival, Bristol

13-15 Sep - Festival Number 6, Portmeirion

The single 'Triangulation Station' will be released on 10th of June. Listen here: http://bit.ly/12xTMXK

Read a review from Pitchfork here: http://bit.ly/10YZ56I

Artist info: www.isletislet.com

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JAMES BLAKE announces July & August Oz/Nz dates:

26 Jul   Astor Theatre  - Perth

30 Jul   Sydney Opera House - Sydney

31 Jul The Palais Theatre - Melbourne

02 Aug  Town Hall - Auckland

General on-sale Monday 13th May @ 9am local time - see press for details.

Artist info: www.JamesBlakemusic.com

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Billy Gibbons, what a dude. This is a guy who drinks Rio Grande for his table water. Great, growling voice and peeling off those incredible riffs and that dirty sound so effortlessly.

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Our amazing experience at the BBC Maida Vale studios...

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Duologue — Song & Dance This absorbing debut from the London five-piece builds on the huge promise of their 2011 debut EP. As before, Tim Digby-Bell’s extraordinary voice — part John Lydon circa Metal Box, part Tom Chaplin — is to the fore, but it is the soundscapes beneath it, which marry... Kid A-like electronica with pop embellishment, that give these songs their kick.

The Sunday Times

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Duologue — Song & Dance This absorbing debut from the London five-piece builds on the huge promise of their 2011 debut EP. As before, Tim Digby-Bell’s extraordinary voice — part John Lydon circa Metal Box, part Tom Chaplin — is to the fore, but it is the soundscapes beneath it, which marry... Kid A-like electronica with pop embellishment, that give these songs their kick.

The Sunday Times

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The first single to be taken from BIFFY CLYRO's latest double album Opposites, Black Chandelier is yet more pomp rock grounded on planet pop, ripe with the potential to be 'borrowed' by another X-Factor hopeful. Fortunately the once volatile art rockers have included a trash-and-grind breakdown suggesting they haven't completely forsaken their cerebral, alternative-rock roots.

Q Magazine - singles review

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They're out of the blocks with a harpoon to the hometown heart, as 'The Opener' - a love letter to Manchester - gets everyone chanting "My Heart is here, here to stay".

NME 05th January 2013 - live review of The Courteeners, Arena Manchester 7th December 2012

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They translate so well because Mumford & Sons' music is driven not by the complex flurries of bluegrass or folk finger-picking, or even the rootsy Celtic mysticism of folk-rock-pop masters the Waterboys, say, but by the steady doof of Marcus Mumford's bass drum.

The Observer 16th Dec 2012 - Kitty Empire review, 02 Arena

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Lucy Rose talks Xmas

NME: Would you do a song for a John Lewis advert?

Lucy Rose: I don't think I'm twee enough for John Lewis.