http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/?service=Rss http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/ones-to-watch-get-the-blessing-920070.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/ones-to-watch-get-the-blessing-920070.html <p> Bristol quartet Get the Blessing released their debut album, <i>All Is Yes</i>, back in February, but they're hot news again having recently won the BBC Jazz Album Of The Year award. </p> Music Magazine Features Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:35:40 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/ones-to-watch-yo-majesty-920059.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/ones-to-watch-yo-majesty-920059.html <p> Hip-hop is a famously male-dominated genre, and one which has a reputation for being unswervingly heterosexual. </p> Music Magazine Features Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:29:54 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/ones-to-watch-fujiya-amp-miyagi-920057.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/ones-to-watch-fujiya-amp-miyagi-920057.html <p> &quot;Vanilla, strawberry, Knickerbocker Glory / I saw the ghost of Lena Zavaroni&quot;. Half-whispered, repeated over and over, it should be a ludicrous way to open an album. In the hands of Brighton's Fujiya &amp; Miyagi, however, it's only mildly surreal &ndash; and utterly compelling. </p> Music Magazine Features Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:28:55 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/ones-to-watch-the-dodos-920055.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/ones-to-watch-the-dodos-920055.html <p> News that the <i>NME</i> has declared The Dodos' new album one of this summer's must-have releases might raise sceptical sneers, but the magazine is absolutely right: <i>Visiter</i> is a corker. </p> Music Magazine Features Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:27:17 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/the-eighties-revival-is-still-banging-its-syndrum-920052.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/the-eighties-revival-is-still-banging-its-syndrum-920052.html <p> Run by an anonymous music fan and copyright vigilante who calls himself Philo T Farnsworth, US label Illegal Art currently has two new albums on its release schedule which thumb their noses at Western governments' attempts to tighten up what many already view as overly restrictive copyright laws. The first, and best, is <i>What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective</i> &ndash; a collection of virtuoso cut-ups by Steve Stein, aka Steinski, the New York ad man and amateur DJ who in the autumn of 1983 won a remix competition held by rap label Tommy Boy at his first attempt. </p> Music Magazine Features Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:23:09 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/slipped-discs-920051.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/slipped-discs-920051.html <p> Record shops in the Eighties were vibrant, exciting places staffed by teenagers with a passion for music and overrun by kids hanging out, being cool. You could find all sorts of people there, united by their love of music: little girls buying CD singles of their favourite boy band; teenage girls buying chart CDs; teenage boys buying 12&quot; singles; young men replacing all the LPs bought in their youth with the new exciting CD format; young women buying <i>Now That's What I Call Music</i>; middle aged women buying record tokens as birthday presents; and dads buying cassettes for the car. For each, their record shop provided an important cultural experience. </p> Music Magazine Features Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:19:56 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/small-mercies-920025.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/small-mercies-920025.html Music Magazine Features Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:59:58 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/music-amp-me-lykke-li-920021.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/music-amp-me-lykke-li-920021.html <p> <b>The first record I bought was... </b> </p> <p> I didn't buy a lot of records growing up, but I do remember the first tape I got; it was Madonna's The Immaculate Collection. Fantastic! </p> Music Magazine Features Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:54:55 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/mercury-music-prize-nominee-rachel-unthank-amp-the-winterset-914836.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/mercury-music-prize-nominee-rachel-unthank-amp-the-winterset-914836.html Music Magazine Features Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:20:49 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/win-a-copy-of-rachel-unthank-amp-the-wintersets-album-the-bairns-914845.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/win-a-copy-of-rachel-unthank-amp-the-wintersets-album-the-bairns-914845.html <p> We're offering you the chance to win selected albums from the Mercury Music Prize nominations, including Rachel Unthank &amp; The Winterset's <i>The Bairns</i>. </p> Music Magazine Features Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:58:48 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/win-a-copy-of-neon-neons-album-stainless-style-904988.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/win-a-copy-of-neon-neons-album-stainless-style-904988.html <p> We're offering you the chance to win selected albums from the Mercury Music Prize nominations, including Neon Neon's <i>Stainless Style</i>. </p> Music Magazine Features Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:35:44 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/natural-mystic-860199.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/music-magazine-features/natural-mystic-860199.html <p> Chris Blackwell is often regarded as synonymous with Bob Marley and rightly so: it was Blackwell who saw in him the potential to grow from a relatively small-time Jamaican artist into a worldwide superstar. </p> Music Magazine Features Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:38:01 +0100