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UK culture writer Lydia Hughes is an intern at Dazed & Confused magazine, and has previously contributed to AltSounds magazine. She is interested in anything that can grab her attention longer than she can balance a spoon on her nose.

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The Charity Busk: The Orange Circus Band

(0) Comments | Posted February 22, 2013 | 10:24 AM

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THE BUSK is a music platform. It showcases music videos and profiles fresh, new talent. If you want to listen to sound played from the streets, you've come to the right place.

You also can find your music favourites here, too.

THE BUSK recently...

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THE BUSK: The Sheepdogs

(1) Comments | Posted February 5, 2013 | 6:42 PM

THE BUSK is a music platform. It showcases music videos and profiles fresh, new talent. If you want to listen to sound played from the streets, you've come to the right place. You also can find your music favorites here, too.

THE BUSK's first session took place with The Sheepdogs...

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The Charity Busk: Son Belly

(0) Comments | Posted February 5, 2013 | 6:19 AM

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THE BUSK is a music platform. It showcases music videos and profiles fresh, new talent. If you want to listen to sound played from the streets, you've come to the right place.

You also can find your music favourites here, too.

THE BUSK recently...

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The Charity Busk: Rubylux

(0) Comments | Posted February 4, 2013 | 11:10 AM


THE BUSK is a music platform. It showcases music videos and profiles fresh, new talent. If you want to listen to sound played from the streets, you've come to the right place.

You also can find your music favourites here, too.

THE BUSK recently held a charity session...

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Liam Fray on the Release of The Courteeners' New Album Anna

(0) Comments | Posted January 28, 2013 | 8:21 AM

The Courteeners are getting ready to release their new, dark-yet-hopeful studio album Anna . Coming nearly three years after Falcon, Liam Fray talks of its arrival, the band's journey back from 'the wilderness,' and about who Anna actually is.

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Anna doesn't sound...

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Interview: Darwin Deez on Songs for Imaginative People

(0) Comments | Posted December 20, 2012 | 8:57 AM

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Darwin Deez: a mystery much like he says life is. After we met, I initially came away feeling satisfied with the answers he'd given in relation to my questions about Songs For Imaginative People, and about his music and creativity more generally....

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Interview: Death at Sea on Debut Single 'Drag/Selfless'

(0) Comments | Posted November 9, 2012 | 12:46 PM

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Death At Sea, formed just this year, describe themselves as "New noise from Liverpool." Scouted by BBC Introducing's Jen Long, the quintet have already made head-way in their young musical careers. Having recently released their debut AA-side single "Drag/Selfless," the band's...

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Interview: Zebra Katz on Gimp Masks, Bitches and 'Queer Rap'

(0) Comments | Posted October 22, 2012 | 9:44 AM

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Zebra Katz is the artist name Ojay Morgan coined for himself whilst he was at college, and is one he thinks will stand the test of time. And certainly, what he produces isn't just a fad-type music throw-together that is...

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Album Review: King Porter Stomp -- Shuffle

(0) Comments | Posted October 1, 2012 | 7:55 AM

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I recently caught up with Jonzey (Tim Jones) of King Porter Stomp to talk about the band's eagerly awaited sophomore record, Shuffle.

Now this is a band whose name suggests they own a solid foot in the jazz world -- it...

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fiN: 'Twenty Three'/'Eve' Launch at Bush Hall, London

(0) Comments | Posted April 23, 2012 | 6:30 PM

fiN, the alternative rock quartet from Wandsworth played at Bush Hall, London this week to launch their new single 'Twenty Three' / 'Eve'. Beforehand I got talking to them about partying, death, and performing with Rihanna at this year's Brit Awards.

In...

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Cutting Off Adele for Bleugh... I Mean, Blur

(6) Comments | Posted February 22, 2012 | 12:03 PM

There has been uproar since last night. Adele had just been awarded what can be considered the most notable award of the evening: Mastercard British Album of the Year, for her album 21. However, during her gracious acceptance speech, whilst thanking her country and fans and stating the pride she...

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Hey, Ms. Dynamite... Where Have You Been?

(0) Comments | Posted December 29, 2011 | 12:36 PM

At the SB.TV Xmas party I caught up with Ms Dynamite. She's been on the down-low for some time, a lot of us wondering what she's been up to, but now she's ready to make a comeback.

An event host to top names in the current...

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Lady Leshurr Talks Touring, 2012, and the Real Meaning of "Lego"

(0) Comments | Posted December 27, 2011 | 5:56 PM

Lady Leshurr, who has been previously dubbed as the UK's female version of Busta Rhymes, performed at SB.TV's first live event at Koko in London this week. Other contributors included Labrinth, Tinchy Stryder, Meesha B., Ms. Dynamite and Cher Lloyd. Whilst the event was about promoting young entrepreneur Jamal Edwards's...

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Singing Beyond the Stairwells: Kina Grannis

(3) Comments | Posted November 8, 2011 | 7:18 PM

This Japanese-American singer-songwriter at just 26 has already been making music for over 10 years. From a young age she began tinkering with instruments lying around the house, but as of recently she's gone from playing alone in the stairwells at college to having over 90 million listeners. Her story...

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GLC at V Festival: "Blue Waffle is mostly about sex and getting the finger in"

(0) Comments | Posted September 13, 2011 | 7:03 PM


At V Festival this year I met the notorious Welsh rappers, Goldie Lookin' Chain. Given their somewhat infamous reputation I expected a torrent of hilariously explicit antics, although I can't say I was prepared for the dose of free sex and clunge that came...

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Fitz and The Tantrums, V Festival and Their Debut Album: Pickin' Up The Pieces

(2) Comments | Posted August 25, 2011 | 5:40 PM

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Frontman Fitz (Michael Fitzpatrick) had just been through a shattering break-up, feeling as though he was about to lose his mind, when writing songs became medicinal, and the development of the album Pickin' Up the Pieces acted as part of the self-healing...

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Lykke Li: Providing the Soundtrack to Your Life

(3) Comments | Posted July 27, 2011 | 7:03 PM

It was a YouTube video I randomly stumbled across one day that compelled me to buy Lykke Li's second album Wounded Rhymes. As I watched the acoustic version of 'I'm Good, I'm Gone' from her debut album Youth Novels, I was introduced to an alternative singer-songwriter from Sweden who, at...

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Darwin Deez at Glastonbury

(1) Comments | Posted July 3, 2011 | 5:26 PM

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Darwin Deez, I love you! Whilst I'm already a massive fan, this was my first time seeing the New York-based, minimal pop/rocker in the flesh -- and what a show. It's obvious from the music videos alone that frontman Deez (Darwin...

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A Drumadic Time in New York With William B. Johnson

(1) Comments | Posted June 15, 2011 | 1:01 PM

As I stood in New York's Mercury Lounge, after walking what felt like the length of Manhattan, my feet ached. When I plonked myself down I realized, to my delight, that I rested next to William B. Johnson. Former bucket drummer to Alicia Keys during "The Diary of Alicia...

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