All posts from 10 August 2007

The Danish dance-rock duo’s debut disc, “D-D-Don’t Stop the Beat,” scored the pair an international hit single (”Move Your Feet”) when it was released in 2003, and the album was included on some critics’ top ten lists at the end of the year. Fans (at least those not in Japan or Denmark) were disappointed, however, […]

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Universal Music Group announced Thursday that it would experiment over the next six months with selling digital music with no copy protection. Although the DRM-free downloads will be available through a number of online retailers, Apple’s iTunes Music Store will not be one of them.
Speaking of Apple, iPod owners will be able to play a […]

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Factory Records co-founder Tony Wilson died Friday at the age of 57 of a heart attack while hospitalized for ongoing treatment for kidney cancer. Hugely instrumental in the Manchester music scene (especially during the 1980s), the one-time television presenter is best known for signing and managing bands like Joy Division, New Order and the Happy […]

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Neither architects nor Finnish, the now-six-piece (down from eight) Australian group known for their eclectic, more-is-better approach return with a third album that–if possible–contains even more varied instrumentation than its predecessors, even if its songs do suggest a slightly longer attention span (relatively speaking, of course). With AiH head Cameron Bird now residing in a […]

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Even if you may not recognize his name, for close to thirty years, Australian multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer Mick Harvey has been turning out well-received music as a member of The Birthday Party, Crime & The City Solution, and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds–among other projects. The fourth in a periodic series of solo […]

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