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Catch-33⅓: Too Much New Music To Find Time To Write About Too Much New Music
WARNING: This is a wholly narcissistic post about The State Of This Blog, so if you are faint of heart, skip to the last paragraph, there there is a TL;DR. Oh, I’ve dropped in some good new music too,...
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TAPERS: Lethargy-Bargy
As I spend my time fretting about how I can actually keep writing about new music without going clinically insane (best idea so far: stop writing so much, Joe, you idiot), today had the rarest of...
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Sean O’Neill – Trumpet Voluntary
There have been few – very few – solo singer-songwriters on ANBAD over the last 5 or so years. It’s nothing personal, moody guys and gals with acoustic guitars. It just turned out that way. So it’s...
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Terriers: Terrifying
I could take no more, and began to wade though my inbox, on a ruthless, near-vengeful, slash ‘n’ burn mission. It was, as always, a liberating experience. Interestingly, it appears that I did not open...
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TRIOLIAN: Sneakin’ Out The Inbox
Seeing as all I write about at the moment is how I don’t have time to write, I may as well bore you thoroughly and fill you in on how I’m dealing with the problem outlined previously. It’s a...
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ANBAD’S TOP 5 BANDS OF 2013
Painted Zeros, possibly celebrating getting the #1 spot on this list, yesterday Of course, it does look like the cynicism has finally taken over and that I’m making a very pointed gesture by releasing...
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THE MUSIC BIZ PENDULUM, AND HOW IT MUST KEEP SWINGING IN THE FAVOUR OF...
ANBAD has, as you may well have noticed, been pushing the grammatical-correctness of its moniker in the latter half of last year. There’s a full post here, but in short, the whittling-down of regular...
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Feminist; Back to the Future
One of the really pleasant things about running ANBAD is when people get in touch to let me know what they’ve been up to since they were featured on the site. Often, the story is the same: the band I...
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Melt Mountain – Journey to the Pleasure Centre
Melt Mountain posted this nugget of info recently: “autumn / romance / creation / anxiety / music / reading / headache / fun / guilt / pride / chaos / progress / love / impatience” This is as good an...
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POPOBAWA: NO PHOTO, NO NAMES, NO FAIR
Popobawa are one of those pleasing bands that tick every box that make me not want to feature them, and yet, well, here they are, slopped all over ANBAD. Here’s why they shouldn’t be here: Popobawa...
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GLASTONBURY EMERGING TALENT COMPETITION
Let’s cut to the chase: of course you want to play at Glastonbury Festival. It’s Glastonbury Festival. You want to play there because you are a human being with eyes, a heart and a brain. So: enter...
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DEAN BLUNT
I only really blog now when I’m frothing at the mouth about something, so please believe me when I tell you that my heart did backflips when I heard 100, the new song from Dean Blunt. Here’s the video...
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