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Interview: The Fresh & Onlys

by Jonathan

San Francisco’s the Fresh & Onlys burst out of their collaborative local scene with a string of early albums that owed plenty to the dynamics of the burgeoning new garage scene in the city, but over time their evolving sound has brought in smitten new listeners across the UK and Europe, culminating in the textured, [...]

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Bands to watch at Great Escape 2013: The Physics House Band

by Jonathan

It seems fitting to end our run through of bands to watch at this year’s festival with a Brighton band – which quite frankly only left one choice: the Physics House Band. This incendiary trio are a discombobulating thrill ride of genre-melding styles from across all the most exploratory and technical elements of the music [...]

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Great Escape interview: Houndmouth

11 May 2013
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Wildly entertaining, anthemic and a barrel of fun, Houndmouth are exactly the kind of band that can light up a festival, so their appearance at this year’s Great Escape is set to be a real highlight. Hailing from Indiana, the band were signed up by that most quintessentially English indie label Rough Trade, an unlikely [...]

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Bands to watch at Great Escape 2013: Del Barber

7 May 2013
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What with all the fun to be had at Great Escape, generally revolving around drinking, singing and dancing, it can be easy to forget to eat. Great news then, from the Canadian prairies, Manitoba to be precise, in the shape of Del Barber. The singer, who spent his younger years out on the road working [...]

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Bands to watch at Great Escape 2013: Parquet Courts

28 April 2013
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Parquet Courts are a band heading for a kind of critical critical mass at the moment, with publications falling over themselves to heap praise on the Texan foursome, while the band themselves do everything to distance themselves from the buzz with an insouciant swagger that may or may not be pre-planned. But here’s the thing: [...]

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Bands to watch at Great Escape 2013: The Elwins

24 April 2013
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If you fancy some erudite surf-pop in your Great Escape diet then look no further than the Elwins. Fusing together what sounds to these ears like some magical intersection of Little Joy, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin and Brian Wilson, the Canadian band’s mastery of style, substance and oodles of melody on last year’s [...]

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Bands to watch at Great Escape 2013: Woods

22 April 2013
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Fast evolving and seriously thrilling, Brooklyn’s Woods are one of the real standouts at this year’s festival. What started as a folksy solo project for singer Jeremy Earl back in 2005 has steadily grown into a full band blend of sunny west coast melodies and huge dynamic, bouncing anthems with some psych-rock trip-outs thrown in [...]

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Great Escape Interview: Wall

16 April 2013
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Sometimes the best music happens almost by chance. That’s the way it was for Wall, originally an experimental side-project for singer-songwriter Lyla Foy, but one that rapidly took on a life of its own after Foy wrote a beautiful little song called No Secrets. That song, understated and intimate, struck such a chord with listeners [...]

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Bands to watch at Great Escape 2013: Marika Hackman

11 April 2013
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In the wake of Laura Marling and the Staves, it can be tempting to jump to instant conclusions every time you hear a new young woman playing an acoustic guitar in anything resembling a folk style. It’s a mistake at the best of times, but in the case of Marika Hackman, a serious error of [...]

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Gig Preview: Rachel Ries, The Latest, 17 April 2013

2 April 2013
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Eagle-eyed music lovers may have spotted South Dakota’s Rachel Ries playing as part of Anais Mitchell’s band on last year’s delightful Young Man in America tour, including a memorable gig at Brighton’s Blind Tiger. Ries had previously released the collaborative Country EP in tandem with Mitchell in 2008, and the two have remained kindred musical [...]

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