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• TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS
  on Feb 14, 2009 in Art Hobbies DINOSAURS TOTALLY
  Regular readers of A New Band A Day will know that there few criteria to being selected to feature. Firstly, great tunes are a must, obviously. Actually - that’s the extent of the criteria. The only additional ‘rule’ is that
• EX-LOVERS
  on Feb 14, 2009 in Art Hobbies EX-LOVERS
  In these recession-ridden times, hidden value - getting more than your bargained for - is about as good as it gets. This is especially true if you think that you’ve been diddled out of too much money in the first place. An example: when I went..
• GLAM CHOPS
  on Feb 14, 2009 in Art Hobbies CHOPS GLAM
  Mixing things together is one of those childlike pleasures that never leaves us as we’re drawn, inexorably, towards adulthood. Presented with a table of food, what child doesn’t think, “I wonder what happens if I stir that gr
• INDICA RITUAL
  on Feb 14, 2009 in Art Hobbies INDICA RITUAL
  I had one of those iPod mental tics this morning. You’ll recognise the problem - wandering along, scrolling through the albums, but none of them that scram up the screen seem to be the one that’s just right for that exact moment in tim
• CANDYTHIEF
  on Feb 14, 2009 in Art Hobbies CANDYTHIEF
  Remember how we went mental over the brilliant “The Battle Is Over” by Paul Hawkins and Thee Awkward Silences a few days back? Remember how we raved about the voice of the guest singer, Candythief? Well, with a shuddering inevitability
• THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
  on Feb 14, 2009 in Art Hobbies HEART PAINS PURE
  Possibly the most idiotic, frustrating thing about rock music right now is its tiresome and seemingly endless ability to create new ’scenes’ out of old ones. Nostalgia has infected the one thing which, in the wake of punk, would suppos
• PIXEL H8
  on Feb 14, 2009 in Art Hobbies H8 PIXEL
  Making music’s easy isn’t it? Anyone can play guitar - Radiohead told us that, and if all the combined intellectualism of Radiohead says so, well, it must be true. Actually, look at it this way: Pete Docherty can play the guitar and af
• ENVELOPES
  on Feb 14, 2009 in Art Hobbies ENVELOPES
  I watched a BBC4 documentary about Britpop the other day. It’ll be on Youtube if you look for it. There’s loads of documentaries about Britpop, possibly because it was such a recent popular period in music, and possibly because it&
• PAUL HAWKINS AND THEE AWKWARD SILENCES
  on Feb 14, 2009 in Art Hobbies AWKWARD SILENCE
  Weirdness is an underrated virtue in pop ‘n’ rock music, and for understandable reasons. It’s too often, rightly, associated with acts who use a veneer of ‘kooky’ as an execrable cover-up for lack of talen
• AWESOME WELLS
  on Feb 14, 2009 in Art Hobbies AWESOME WELLS
  We started yesterday with a quotation, and that shaped up pretty well, so here’s another one: “The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.” That one was from Edgar Allen Poe, and it makes us thi

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