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Giant Haystacks

If your band has a stupid name, you need to be able to justify it. So many bands just don't give a shit anymore.
Jaimie Smodgeson
3.1.08
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Under The Fuzz

The internet has made everything too easy. Remember when you used to have to send a cheque off to some PO Box just to get hold of a zine and in the back of it you'd see a list of records by a bunch of bands you knew nothing about?
James Knight
3.1.08
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Cabin Fever

Photos by Annabel Mehran, Styling by Jaclyn Hodes
Annabel Mehran
3.1.08
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Do It!

UK urban music is in the best state it's been in for a decade. Ten-year-old girls are throwing their Bratz dolls out the window and breakdancing in their wheelie shoes when a bassline tune comes on daytime radio.
Prancehall
3.1.08
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Climb Every Mountain

Ryan McPhun is an American living in New Zealand. He moved there five years ago and as you can imagine, his accent is a bit strange.
Tip Toe
3.1.08
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Documented Mind- Wandering

Tickley Feather is the nom de plume of a 29-year-old woman named Annie Sachs. She lives with her four-year-old son, Aiden, out in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When she has some time off from doing motherly stuff, she writes and sings these...
Theydon Bois
3.1.08
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Raw China

These death metal maestros make the four horsemen of the apocalypse sound like My Little Pony.
Jocko Weyland
3.1.08
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Fuck Confucius

Most countries outside the English-speaking world have some sort of "father of rock" figure. Cui Jian is China's.
Milene Larsson
3.1.08
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Branches And Roots And... Pinecones

Tall Firs are a Brooklyn band that has really calming vibes but also a low-level heaviness sort of thing going on. If I were a really lazy writer who relied on clichés, I would say that Tall Firs' music has a "sense of hushed intensity."
June Sprig
3.1.08
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Locked Off

People still try to make out that grime is based in three highrise blocks in Bow, when in reality other parts of London, particularly north, are home to a lot of the more productive MCs such as Chipmunk, Skepta, JME, Scorcher etc.
Prancehall
3.1.08
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Shitgazers United

Psychedelic Horseshit coined the turn "shitgaze," formed on a whim at a party and made up their name on the spot because it was the first thing that sprang to mind.
Jimmy Jamjar
3.1.08
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Records

Who’d have thought 20 years ago that the music present-day goths would be into would sound exactly like someone making fun of the music that goths were into 20 years ago?
VICE Staff
3.1.08
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