August 2010
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Manic Street Preachers - 'Postcards From a Young...
Ah, a most-anticipated release over at AFIN HQ: the Manic Street Preachers’ 10th album, Postcards from a Young Man (due out 9/20/2010). Most bands managing to carry on long enough to reach this landmark are quite tired musically by this point, reverting to old tricks, sounding dated in comparison to contemporary music, all manner of ills striking at what once was creative and beautiful. It...
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Gig Review: The Libertines at Leeds Festival
Its fair to say that the Libertines reformation has almost certainly been the highest anticipated event of the festival season, amidst multiple rumours, doubts and general speculation all concerns were forgotten when the foursome finally made their appearance on stage. Despite not many Libertines fans being too impressed with Dizzee Rascal’s performance, [although to his credit I felt that...
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Interviewing the Readers - Let's Talk About...the...
Quick and to the point query today: what is the best concert you’ve ever been to and what made it so fabulous? I’ll answer after myself after some of your lovely comments should appear!
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Book Review: 'Richard', by Ben Myers
Making AFIN history with the first review of a music-related book to ever appear on the site is Ben Myers’ novel Richard, a fictional take on the life of Richey Edwards from the Manic Street Preachers, to be released on Picador on October 1st, 2010. Authored by a man who is a journalist as well as a fan of the band himself, Richard is both the product of careful research and a unique...
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Interviewing the Readers - Let's Talk...
Late-appearing Interviewing the Readers segment, spurred on by the relative success of last week’s topic and responses (on buying physical copies of music), here we go!: Desert Island Discs is a program running on BBC (actually one of the longest running radio programs ever) in which celebrity guests pick eight songs they’d like to have with them on a desert island. These are...
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Independent Music Discoveries: Issue #33
UPDATES: Snail Quail - Indie / Acoustic / Punk - Arizona, USA AFIN contributor Jonathan aka Snail Quail has embarked on a tour to promote his forthcoming album, Calculus (see also my review of his Moving On EP). Check out “Phoenix, AZ”, the topic of the song is what it says on the tin, showing Snail Quail in good-humored and analytical top form. Tour dates (subject to addtions): August...
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Interviewing the Readers - Let's Talk...
After writing the post on ‘The Internet: Ultimately Good or Bad for the Music Industry?’ and reading the comments, I got to thinking about how posing questions regularly to readers on anything from matters of music business to lists of top favorite albums or suggestions for site changes and new album recommendations would be good for and sharing opinions, perhaps even finding solutions...