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Town Hall, HuddersfieldThe mercurial composer’s brilliant score perfectly captures the raging agony and beatific ecstasy of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s silent movie masterpieceJulia Holter’s mercurial career has taken her from traditional pop to chamber music, indie to electronica, the avant grade underground to the Top 20 and recently to film scores. Here, … Read entire story.
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Mesmerising voice of Low, one of America’s most influential bandsMimi Parker, of the American alternative rock group Low, who has died aged 55 of ovarian cancer, had a voice renowned for its quiet, eerie intensity. Often blended in stunning harmonies with her bandmate and husband Alan Sparhawk, and enhanced by … Read entire story.
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Made with minimal resources and modest ambition, their lo-fi recordings are an enduring indie inspiration. The band looks back to a time when record deals seemed a far-fetched prospectOne night in December 1983, Calvin Johnson, Bret Lunsford and Heather Lewis of Beat Happening were asked to play a last-… Read entire story.
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Steph Phillips and Chardine Taylor-Stone explain how their all-black, all-female band has grown and why they remain defiantly punkMost festival organisers might panic upon discovering their headliner has Covid. But if the news that Rachel Aggs now can’t close the second night of Decolonise Fest shakes the … Read entire story.
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The Isle of Wight scores again with this multi-talented, playfully ambitious indie five-pieceIf you launched an Isle of Wight festival strictly for homegrown bands – and surely someone will do it soon – Plastic Mermaids are ready for the headline slot. This creative collective don’t just produce their … Read entire story.
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