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Julian Casablancas

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Published Oct. 3, 2009 at 6:08 p.m.

He says the Strokes will be recording again – but in the meantime the New York band's singer has his own album out – and some confessions to make about Phil Collins ... When I turn up to meet Julian Casablancas, he is having his picture taken in a bar that's not yet a bar. Drills are whirring, workmen are heaving baroque sofas about in the half-light, while the lead singer of the Strokes, now launching his solo career, has silently become part of the fabric. In a blue velvet-upholstered wall

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Pet Shop Boys

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Published Aug. 25, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

Synth-pop icons PSB drop their high-concept spectacle at the Hammerstein for two nights. Yes, spectacle : YouTube "Pet Shop Boys live" and see what we mean. Touring for the new jam, Yes (which features the single "Love Etc."), and crafty production by Xenomania—the icing experts be ...

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Phoenix

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Published June 25, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

Phoenix, appearing with Amazing Baby, is generating a buzz nearly a decade in the making. The electro-tinged French group, whose lineage has links to both Air and Daft Punk, released United , its diverting Astralwerks Records debut, back in 2000 — and the imprint issued two more impre ...

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The Lemonheads

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Published June 14, 2009 at 5:26 p.m.

The melodies that snag your adolescence are destined to boggle any attempt at objectivity ...

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The Horrors

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pop, post-punk, punk

Published May 13, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

Whereas 2007's Strange House found the Horrors meeting the Cramps and the Ramones halfway while singing about Jack the Ripper, its follow-up finds the English youngsters trading in their scrappy verve for atmospheric brooding. Here the Horrors look for inspiration from Suicide, the Jesus a ...

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Jonathan Richman

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Published March 26, 2009 at 8:16 a.m.

The sainted – some might say over-rated – Mr Richman plays four London gigs in as many days with his almost Latinesque take on guitar-pop, still providing the loveliest of melodies and wittiest of lyrics ...

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Animal Collective

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Published March 18, 2009 at 12:38 p.m.

Baltimore-based post-psych innovators deliver more ecstatic, harmony-drenched avant pop in support of their latest album, 'Merriweather Post Pavilion' ...

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Snow Patrol

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Published March 6, 2009 at 12:05 p.m.

Gary Lightbody's unstoppable Irish crew hit east London's enormodome with their self-consciously sensitive and anthemic, student-friendly indie-pop tuneage, as typified by latest single, 'If There's A Rocket Tie Me To It' ...

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