As a preview for our forthcoming interview with the First Lady of Clever Pop, Ms Sarah Cracknell, we’ve got a gratis Heavenly sampler, a review of the recent St Etienne South Bank gig, and a bit of a rant, after the jump.
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We'd never have pegged him as a Bikini Kill fan, but **Usher** is rolling out one of their oldest ideas - he's performing a series of women-only shows across America. Called One Night Stand. Which is all sorts of yuk.
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If you're a broadsheet type, then you'll be aware that festival season is supposed to end with Bestival. Not so! Even though it's quite far away (October) and we're not sure if we're going yet, we're getting quite excited about Iceland Airwaves, partly because it's in Iceland which is dead exotic, and partly because the line-up is looking extremely tasty. And that's tasty + Vampire Weekend, as of today.
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All Tomorrow's Parties' Nightmare Before Christmas just got a whole lot noisier - NY no wave legends Teenage Jesus & The Jerks will appear at December's festival for their first European show in 30 years. We'll have a chalet for that, thanks, Butlins Minehead.
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You would have thought that the people watching Olympic spectacles over in China deserve something really special to finish with, making up for the miming child and video-faked firework displays. And special they have got, courtesy of the good old UK - David Beckham and Leona Lewis. We. Cannot. Wait.
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Poor Tom out of Keane. The whole world sniggers into its cornflakes when they hear about his unlikely drugs habit, and the minute he says anything a bit soppy, it's a headline news for the internets. Including us, apparently....
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Yelp-y, scream-y and vom-up on stage-y punk tykes Be Your Own Pet have announced that they are to call this game we call rock and roll quits – well, with each other at the very least.
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New York never seemed so far away as it did last night, when Karen O debuted her new solo project Native Korean Rock to a tiny crowd in Brooklyn. We, obviously, were not there. However, blogs Music Slut and Self-Titled did attend, and this is what we learned from them.
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