A Life Less Ordinary: Ian Prowse interview

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A Life Less Ordinary: Ian Prowse interview

Ian Prowse is a determined soul. As the first sentence he utters to me over a pint opposite Mathew Street reveals. It’s a determination that’s led to the release this week of a compilation of his best work – with his bands Pele and Amsterdam – from the last 20 years… “I played my first [...]

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Disc heads: celebrate Record Store Day in Liverpool

It’s set to be a rather brilliant 24 hours next Saturday (21st) as the country celebrates its annual Record Store Day. Previous ones here in Liverpool have been small, but fun: we enjoyed trawling through the selection of special RSD releases in Probe and the general sense of giving a bit of a middle finger [...]

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The ragged haired philanthropist: Steve Pilgrim’s ‘Be One Percent’ charity

They say there are no selfless good deeds. They’re right. Giving is good – and it makes you feel good too. Steve Pilgrim feels good. The Scouse musician, currently on the road as Paul Weller’s drummer and backing vocalist, is feeling a lot of things these days. He’s solo artist, former drummer with The Stands [...]

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Radar: Evian Christ’s ‘Kings and Them’ mixtape download

When Evian Christ’s ‘Kings and Them’ mixtape hit music blogs a few weeks ago, there was a clamour to find out more. Shrouded in secrecy initially, with no photos to go on, little was known about the producer who made dark, expansive rap beats and signed to achingly trendy electronic label du jour Tri Angle [...]

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Muto Leo: Mathematical Solutions

Dextrous, soaring and sonically rewarding, Muto Leo are back with a new EP and showcase this weekend. Get along, and see what Radio 1 Presents, and 6Music see in them…

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Radar: Clean Cut Kid

We get quite a lot of emails barging their way into our inbox, demanding for us to listen to a certain band. It’s impossible to write about them all – suffice to say, there’s a lot of music going on in this city right now – but we appreciated the recent tipoff about Clean Cut [...]

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Jethro Fox: New Song. New Show!

We love Jethro Fox. And with his day-glo new release, he might just have brought us our first soundtrack to summer…-

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Radar: Kailash Kher at the Philharmonic

Something new to us. ‘Revered’ Indian singer Kailash Kher at the Philharmonic – we have reason to believe it will be good.

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Radar: Gold Soundz, The Kazimier

The concept of an ‘indie’ clubnight, like British indie itself, has deteriorated massively over the past few years. We blame Pete Doherty. (For everything). Nowadays, the setlist at any night is the same: Kings Of Leon for the LADS, The Smiths for the sensitive – ie drunk – souls, and The Strokes’ ‘Last Nite’ to [...]

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Liverpool’s best new music? Tell it to gran…

When I got my grandmother to review Kurth Hentschläger’s ‘Zee’ exhibition at FACT late last year, I had no idea that it would get such a good reaction. She was just as overwhelmed too. Although she doesn’t use the internet, I printed out the comments, tweets and Facebook messages for her and she was pleased [...]

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