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It's not, it's Will.

From Elle: "Sleater-Kinney could have fallen into obscurity like some of their ’90s indie-rock classmates (what ever happened to Joan Osborne?)"

It's very much a virtuoso's list (and an American one), which is why someone talented but non-shredding like Polly Harvey or Charlotte Hatherley would never get near it - the Carrie Brownstein bit recommends One Beat specifically because it sounds like Jimmy Page.

Some sort of side project we're not allowed to know about?

he means the new My Latest Novel album, which is called Deaths And Entrances.

Monotonix are playing on the floor of the Hall, although I suspect people in the indoor bar and foyer will get to see some of it too.

It's still on their site/Myspace, mind.

Phil and Abi have been with the band since they were previewing Do You Like Rock Music? in late 2007.

, the live album, is supposedly out in a couple of weeks through 4AD.

It's interesting that Emmy's album (outside DiS), Alela Diane and Laura Groves (now trading as Blue Roses and signed to XL) have been almost completely overlooked in Women Will Rule This Year pieces, when you'd think they'd be looking for a quick and easy New Marling. I wonder if it's because they've been around for a couple of years, which might explain why out of all the female acoustic wielders the as far as we're concerned out here newly minted Catherine AD is getting the most press attention, and even that's not a lot.

but Kylie and Goldfrapp were going down those paths some time ago - we've had so many New Goldfrapps that Goldfrapp have completely changed their style in the meantime - and broadly I meant in terms of the level of hype towards a female solo singer who has 'cred' and "isn't like your usual bland pop starlet". However much lists like this go on about this being the year of the girls I haven't seen a lot of evidence of widespread interest in any of them yet - Dog Days Are Over failed to make the top 75 despite a Radio 1 playlisting and no end of press interest. Of the Sound Of 2009 top five I can only realistically see Empire Of The Sun making commercial bounds from this distance, and that's largely because they can comfortably be marketed as a new MGMT and Waking On A Dream has been around for a while on radio.

"7. Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong"

The ironic thing with this supposed vogue for girls with synths recalling the 80s is that apart from it coming from nowhere with no base to suggest the record buying public are going to change allegiance wholesale - the Ting Tings are the closest I can think of and they're not really the same - it seems to be loosely following the course of Lily and Kate, except Lily emerged in the spring with the LDN 7" and while Kate was occasionally mentioned in dispatches at the start of 2007 nobody had any really high hopes for her yet.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk5ufApUArQ

if that counts as negative comment, given it's now all Andy Gill ever does.

17 Seconds had an old Glasvegas interview deleted because it featured demo mp3s that pre-dated their Columbia signing and had already been taken offline - http://www17seconds.blogspot.com/2008/10/grrrstand-up-to-bullies.html and a follow up at http://www17seconds.blogspot.com/2008/10/fightback-begins.html

They played ULU the night after Mogwai at the Apollo.

And now I get sued for defamation.

is he has no preferences expressed or further thoughts about the medium of broadcasting expertise, no when or what, he just loves 'the radio' as an abstract concept.

Do people not have memories any more?

John Lydon's always been an open fan of theirs too. It's not that "demented".

At the end of their second set Klausener announced there were a few promos at the front, immediately followed by a stampede.

that's co-performed, written and credited to two other people?

He's not even lead singer in his band!

because I thought it'd get packed downstairs - it didn't, obviously - and you could tell most down there were completely nonplussed but for the most part couldn't tear themselves away. I overheard so many people describing it to others for the rest of the day.

As fun as Those Dancing Days were, I'm still kicking myself about not seeing more than Efterklang's last song.

Why has DiS been entered under Best Music Blog rather than Best Unofficial (or Official, whichever) Music Site?

I suspect the second time was to revel in the amusement that it was 29 degrees C and I had what can only be described as a macintosh in there.

Apparently the bystander thus maimed by the Mai 68s drumstick was the guitarist's wife.

is that it's my understanding that Fuck Buttons will clash with John Power. Nobody in the world will have that tricky decision to make.

MY EARTHQUAKE TERROR

and I think Best Before then made it private viewing only.

My go at predicting the list: British Sea Power, Burial, Duffy, Edwyn Collins, Elbow, Foals, The Imagined Village, MIA, Mystery Jets, Portishead, Radiohead, Robert Wyatt.

It's been changed now anyway, so I now look slightly foolish.

That's an excellent piece, clearly a lot of affection for each other's work there. Their stage times have been moved apart at Indietracks, and I just wonder...

The SP&S video is on YouTube already, by the way. (Well, it was last week)

Haven't we been through this enough times by now?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7493040.stm

I like how the organisers shut down the forum to quell any suggestion of disenchantment, and within hours they're being related instead in a story on the BBC news ticker.

by a post last week on Lucky Soul's blog I came across last night when reading up on this - can't remember the exact wording apart from the times, but it was something like "we are playing Zoo Thousand this weekend and will be onstage at 2.30pm. The programme says we will be on at 5.40pm, but that's wrong." Three hours!

Sheff said in the P4K interview that The Stage Names had been intended at first as a double CD, and as there's continuation and answer songs to those on the first album I think we can assume that this is that second disc.

might well be just the companion to The Stage Names, but Black Sheep Boy Appendix was hardly an afterthought. Grizzly Bear definitely, if that sneaks out before the end of the year. I'll be interested to see how the new Jeremy Warmsley songs shape up in the studio, and Emmy The Great's debut is on the way. Sky Larkin might just prick up a few ears. Anathallo, ballboy, Stereolab, Slow Club, PJ Harvey & John Parish, MF Doom, Walkmen, Camera Obscura if we're very lucky... is Owen Pallett still planning a FF album called Heartland?

Weren't Girls Aloud formed in 2002?

How very different to their previous work.

1 Los Campesinos!
2 Johnny Foreigner
3 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
4 Elbow
5 The Wave Pictures

I heard a few tracks from this a while ago and was heavily underwhelmed, especially as the preceding Plume Delivery EP was really strong.

the publicity encourages Express readers to try this Dig Lazarus Dig!! thing.