Guardian music
Pavement return: ‘There are few artists not named Jagger or McCartney who have no financial worries’
10 min read · May 28th · After more than a decade apart, the seminal indie rockers are back. They talk about their enduring influence, flirting with the mainstream and why now is the right time for a reunion
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Spotify’s Embodiment Of Emotional Design
9 min read · May 25th · On average, each smartphone user has 80+ apps on their phone, but only really launch around 9 apps per day. Curiously, I checked my own phone - which somehow holds 148 apps, with only 10 being used…
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Mental Floss
How Kenny Loggins Became The King of '80s Movie Soundtracks
7 min read · May 23rd · After helping to define the supremely chill “yacht rock” sound of the 1970s, Kenny Loggins headed full speed into the world of 1980s movie soundtracks.
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Anne Dudley and Paul Morley discuss The Art Of Noise
9 min read · Apr 23rd · An interview with Anne Dudley and Paul Morley of The Art Of Noise, conducted when they were releasing 'The Seduction of Claude Debussy' in 1999. It's been a long time since The Art Of Noise put out an…
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Martina Topley-Bird: ‘I wasn’t trying to be famous. I was embarrassingly earnest about being authentic’
9 min read · 2021-06-06 · The vocalist breaks her long silence to talk about grieving for her daughter, her pioneering work with Tricky on Maxinquaye and finally making an album she’s 98% happy with…
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The A.V. Club
Tears For Fears on the long journey to new album The Tipping Point
~11 min read · Feb 26th · TFF’s emotional and exemplary seventh album debuts this week, almost 40 years after the band’s debut
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Tears For Fears’ Curt Smith on artists who sample their songs: “I don't think working with them makes things any…
2 min read · Feb 26th · “Why don't we stick to what we do and keep doing that?,” he says
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5 classic tracks producers need to hear by… Tears For Fears
~11 min read · Feb 26th · From new wave synth prodding to full on rock progging, we pick five TFF hits worth shouting about
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Anaïs Mitchell: ‘Hadestown was larger than life. This album is life-sized’
6 min read · Jan 16th · The singer-songwriter is back with a new album after a decade spent nurturing her award-winning musical
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Five times David Bowie predicted the future
4 min read · Feb 25th · David Bowie would have turned 75 on January 8th 2022.Known for his flamboyant and androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust and later as Aladdin Sane, The Thin White Duke and The Soul Man, he sold over 100…
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Bent By Nature extra: The Blue Nile (1985)
Feb 25th · Glasgow’s The Blue Nile are the very archetype of a modern cult band, with their two albums canonized as instant classics. Deirdre talks with the band in a rare 1985 interview about the long genesis…
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Tears for Fears' Roland Orzabal: “My favourite guitarists are probably David Byrne and Paul Weller. I love anyone who can…
~15 min read · Feb 25th · As Tears For Fears return with their first album in 17 years, Orzabal discusses guitars, synths, the evolution of their sound, and why he and Curt Smith had to forget about writing hits
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Jane Siberry
20+ min read · Feb 23rd · An interview with Jane Siberry
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BBC
Where are they now? BBC Sound Of... acts from 10 years ago
7 min read · Feb 20th · If a week is supposed to be a long time in showbusiness, how about a decade?
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Kubb
5 min read · Feb 20th · Many things have gone into making Harry Collier the singer and songwriter he is today. Some have been good, some bad, some weird. Things like...the Church... the Caribbean... Ephedrine... Dido's…
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Guardian music
‘Making music is about making assets for social media’: pop stars battle digital burnout
5 min read · Feb 18th · After Charli XCX left social media citing unkindness from fans, musicians are opening up about the pressures of maintaining an online presence
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