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Florence & The Machine's New Video Leaves Us Emotionally Confused

Everyone can write songs about being miserable (Scattergood), but songs about being happy must be difficult to do well, since there are so few of them around. Which makes Florence & The Machine's Dog Days something special. Why, then, does the clown-featuring video feel the need to bring abject terror into an already heady cocktail of emotions?
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November 10th, 2008
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What Music Has Taught Us About Paris This Year

Paris: officially the pop star's reference point of choice in 2008. But what have we learned from music about the city of love?
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November 7th, 2008
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Of Montreal: New Video, Promise Of Something Right Good Next Week

We're massively in love with the new Of Montreal album, Skeletal Lamping, what came out this week, for a number of reasons: it sounds like 74million albums in one, it is camp as tits, and it comes on all these amazing formats like bags, T-shirts and "wall decals" which are basically big stickers.
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November 6th, 2008
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Metric Back With Help, I'm Alive

Currently all over the YouTubes is this video full of not-so-interesting Metric stills, soundtracked by what appears to be the first track to emerge from their forthcoming third/fourth studio album, Help, I'm Alive.
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November 5th, 2008
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MIA Gets Down In The Hole With The Wire

MIA - remember her? not really up to much these days - was talking about a cover of the theme from The Wire. Well, now it's emerged, and it's not so much a straight-up remake as a total reimagining, with the assistance of proper Baltimore native Blaqstarr. After the jump...
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November 4th, 2008
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Favourite Song This Week: We Have Band - Oh

We Have Band may be sporting a silly-as-arseholes name but there's nothing daft about their ESG-meets-(good)Fischerspooner-isms. Oh is spirit of 2003 indie disco in a can and it boasts a Yo Majesty remix on its jazzy vinyl B-side. You cannot ask for more.
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October 29th, 2008
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Spooky Folk From Headless Heroes & Alela Diane

Despite our aversion for all thing beardy, we are actually rather keen on spooky folk. In which spirit we bring you The North Wind Blew South - a lovely gust of mournful strumming featuring the delicious vocals of Alela Diane.
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October 28th, 2008
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The New Ladyhawke Video Has Frights, Commercial Potential

First things first. It is spooky week here on the Lipster, so it is only appropriate that we should mention something frightening about the new Ladyhawke video. A mountain made from scary cats' heads! Shudder etc.
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October 26th, 2008
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Something Sad: Gideon Baws, RIP

We learnt over the weekend that someone rather brilliant had died - that person being Gideon Baws, a founder member of Shynola.
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