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All Around The Houses
Artists mentioned:Okay, so the plan is to do a weekly(-ish) round up of stuff I find interesting in the music world.....beginning now. I don't get to write about a lot of stuff because I like to keep a good, clean posting structure so I'm going to try to cram everything else...(read full post)
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Foals Remix Comp
Artists mentioned:Oxford collective Foals have announced the winners to their 'Electric Bloom' remix competition, as mentioned by me [here]. Edwin Foals amusingly called it the "make foals sound worse than they already do" competition. Although I'm guessing many people might disagree with that...Admirably, they made a meritocratic decision rather than a...(read full post)
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Dinosaur Pile-Up
Artists mentioned:Matt Bigland, formerly of Leeds based troupe Mother Vulpine, has re-emerged with a solo outfit of sorts (he has a live entourage at gigs) entitled Dinosaur Pile-Up. Well, I say re-emerged but Dinosaur Pile-Up has been going for aaaaaaaages. I even mentioned them a couple of weeks ago in a...(read full post)
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Animals Talking
Artists mentioned:Animals Talking are a bunch of rabble rousing 16-17 year olds from London, who are just about ready to join the selective group of teenage British bands that are on the slow rise toward global domination. Like their contemporaries Lo-Fi Culture Scene, Animals Talking replicate the sound of The Maccabees...(read full post)
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George Lamb versus Tokyo Police Club
Artists mentioned:Part Four of 'George Lamb versus Music' sees our intrepid BBC 6Music radio DJ take on one of Canada's finest indiepop exports, Tokyo Police Club. The band's punchy 'A Lesson In Crime' EP was one of my favourite records of last year and while the full LP follow up ('Elephant...(read full post)
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Voxpop
Artists mentioned:Taking inspiration from the early effervescence of Supergrass, Belle & Sebastian's playful twee and the unashamedly pop attitude of The Feeling, Voxpop are quite remarkably unsigned. Then again, Voxpop members Alex Miller and Beau Barnard didn't have the greatest of times on a major label (Columbia) as part of The...(read full post)
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Kunk
Artists mentioned:East Anglian quartet Kunk are not who you think they are. Chortle. You'll get this "joke" in a minute. One thing that's for certain is that they've been going for a while - they've had tracks played by the late John Peel on his celebrated BBC Radio 1 show. Since...(read full post)
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Nude
Artists mentioned:So hopefully I wasn't the only one pretty nonplussed about that Radiohead 'Nude' remix comp. I think much of the blogosphere were in love with Holy Fuck's version but I found the whole thing a bit silly. Not just because a million people entered and I was far too lazy...(read full post)
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Nicole Atkins
Artists mentioned:I am supremely underqualified to talk about New Jersey's Nicole Atkins, a sultry songstress whose new album 'Neptune City' is a throwback to years gone by. My lack of knowledge in this area leads me to compare her renaissance effort to the recent stylings of Amy Winehouse and Duffy. But...(read full post)
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The Two Year Itch: A Recap
Artists mentioned:To celebrate two years of Keep Hope Inside, I invited some of my favourite bloggers to offer their opinions of their favourite British albums of the past two years. In this post, I'll just recap their choices in case anyone missed anything or are too lazy to go through all...(read full post)
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The Two Year Itch Part Eight
Artists mentioned:Today sees the last part of 'The Two Year Itch', a showcase of some of my favourite bloggers' favourite British albums of the past two years. It was originally decided to be part of my second anniversary celebrations for this blog but seeing as that was about two weeks ago,...(read full post)
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Keep Hope Inside Podcast#8
Artists mentioned:Taking a quick break from my neverending second birthday guest blogging celebrations ('The Two Year Itch'), I decided to rustle up a quick podcast. Although I really hesitate to use the word podcast here. There is no speakyspeaky here. Which a lot of bloggers still consider as perfectly acceptable as...(read full post)
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The Two Year Itch Part Six
Artists mentioned:Part six sees the debut Mystery Jets offering tackled by Tara of [The Music Journal], a blog full of youthful exuberance, if a little light on posts. While their second album seems to have garnered the band a new fanbase, people like myself and Tara have a great affinity with...(read full post)
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The Two Year Itch Part Five
Artists mentioned:Part five of my blogging birthday celebrations goes to the team over at [100b.com]. For some crazy reason, they once put me on a pedestal with Music For Robots and You Ain't No Picasso, which was probably the biggest compliment anyone's ever paid to me blog-wise. Which makes me all...(read full post)
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The Two Year Itch Part Four
Artists mentioned:Sid of [Music Liberation] contributed to my last guest blog feature, You! Me! Blogging! and returns today to enthuse about the debut Blood Red Shoes LP. We're about halfway through The Two Year Itch (celebrating the second anniversary of my blog with bloggers' favourite British albums of the past two...(read full post)
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The Two Year Itch Part Two
Artists mentioned:This is the second part of my guest blog series showcasing bloggers' favourite British albums of the past two years, under the guise of a celebration for the second anniversary of Keep Hope Inside.Part Two sees Massachusetts' finest blogger, Jay of [clicky clicky], aka America's biggest Johnny Foreigner supporter and...(read full post)
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The Two Year Itch Part One
Artists mentioned:As part of my second birthday celebrations here at Keep Hope Inside, I invited a selection of my favourite music bloggers to offer their opinions on their favourite British album of the last couple of years. We'll be having a couple of pieces everyday for the next few days, under...(read full post)
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I AM 2
Artists mentioned:Wow, two years of Keep Hope Inside. It's been a bit of journey. In fact, to celebrate the winding path I've led over the last two years, I'm having a selection of guest bloggers over the next week or so talk about their favourite British album of the last two...(read full post)
