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How much did you pay for In Rainbows? Between the sudden announcement, worldwide release and consumption of Radiohead’s seventh album, that was all anybody could latch onto. Ten years ago this week, one of the seminal bands of our era…

Lisa Hannigan At Swim I met Lisa Hannigan once, in the literary tent at Electric Picnic. I’m a fan so I asked her how the new album was coming along. Her eyes bulged slightly and she took a sharp intake of breath before saying something…

Wild Beasts Boy King Indie music is struggling through a fallow period, looking upon an irreversible downward curve. Good bands are still making good albums, of course, but younger genres are producing interesting and exciting music far…

Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman Universal/Republic When Ariana Grande presented Saturday Night Live in March, she dedicated part of her opening monologue to a fun, jazzy number entitled ‘What Will My Scandal Be?’. Hazards that have…

LNZNDRF LNZNDRF LNZNDRF (pronounced “Lan-zen-dorf”) relish their side project status. The vowel-phobic trio, made up of The National’s Devendorf brothers and Ben Lanz of Beirut, giddily absorb sounds and genres that would not be so…

Daughter Not to Disappear ‘Ethereal’ has become an umbrella term for a lot of contemporary alternative music. Björk is ethereal because she writes about the environment; PJ Harvey’s White Chalk is ethereal because it is ghostly and…

Savages Adore Life “I need something new”, sings Jehnny Beth midway through Adore Life. The Savages’ frontwoman follows up swiftly, with a disgusted “Are the words coming out of your mouth gonna be something I’ve heard before?”. It’s a…