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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 13:08:29 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: various artists, up jumped the devil (viper)]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/a5448ab5355027b621aa8fd091bb078c/Album%3A+various+artists%2C+up+jumped+the+devil+%28viper%29.html</link>
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Perhaps we shouldn’t be too surprised at the fundamentalist Christian cast of 
  American society. 


As this anthology of American “Devil” songs from the Twenties to the Fifties 
  demonstrates, Old Nick was both a literal and metaphorical presence in 
  virtually every genre, from Byron Parker’s breakneck bluegrass number that 
  furnishes the album title to the rock’n’roll of Gene Vincent, who in “Race 
  With The Devil” outstrips Beelzebub in a hotrod race. 

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					<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:58:20 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: various artists, nigeria rock special (soundway)]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/a477d48e16ca41ec23631dc18ab7833b/Album%3A+various+artists%2C+nigeria+rock+special+%28soundway%29.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[
This compilation of Seventies psych-rock strains from Nigeria is far too 
  repetitive, with most bands opting for the same Santana-esque formula of 
  percussion- heavy grooves, organ and lead guitar. 

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					<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:58:20 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: various artists, the jerry ragovoy story: time is on my side (ace)]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/4b6bec2493efea956c45863a2fc76d16/Album%3A+various+artists%2C+the+jerry+ragovoy+story%3A+time+is+on+my+side+%28ace%29.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[
The latest backroom icon to be anthologised in Ace’s splendid Producers &amp; 
  Songwriters series is Jerry Ragovoy, a giant of early-Sixties soul 
  productions who specialised in appropriately giant emotions rendered through 
  giant arrangements. 

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					<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 07:58:45 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: willard grant conspiracy, pilgrim road (loose)]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/c5ae60dcc4f166f219ed4e6a721495a7/Album%3A+willard+grant+conspiracy%2C+pilgrim+road+%28loose%29.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[
Operating here in alliance with Scottish composer Malcolm Lindsay, Willard 
  Grant Conspiracy’s prime mover Robert Fisher has created a song cycle about 
  faith and doubt. 

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					<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 07:58:45 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: vetiver, thing of the past (fat cat)]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/654bfb2f4cb3cc8ba60c0f731b6fbccb/Album%3A+vetiver%2C+thing+of+the+past+%28fat+cat%29.html</link>
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This follow-up to the 2006 album To Find Me Gone is a covers album featuring 
  tracks originally recorded by some of Vetiver leader Andy Cabic’s favourite 
  artists. 

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					<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 07:58:45 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: the treniers, this is it! (rev-ola)]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/1129be5e0520ca3801874f44d81957e0/Album%3A+the+treniers%2C+this+is+it%21+%28rev-ola%29.html</link>
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Along with Louis Jordan and The Du-Droppers, The Treniers all but invented the 
  swinging small combo rockin’ R&amp;B style that was copied with such 
  success by Bill Haley a few years later. 

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					<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 07:58:45 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: peter bellamy, the transports (free reed)]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/5c7ff8e5d69b58e614385633938d777f/Album%3A+peter+bellamy%2C+the+transports+%28free+reed%29.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[
Just one of a host of reissued classics in Free Reed’s Revival Masters series, 
  this 1977 ballad opera remains one of the most impressive works of English 
  folk music. 

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					<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 06:58:27 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: cafe tacuba, sino (wrasse)]]></title>
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Cafe Tacuba are one of the new generation of Mexican bands mingling 
  traditional forms such as cumbia and norteño with punk and indie influences 
  to produce a rich and vibrant strain of rock en español. 

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					<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 06:58:27 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: james hunter, the hard way (fantasy)]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/07c2a3d542920ec8cb9067779c510a4e/Album%3A+james+hunter%2C+the+hard+way+%28fantasy%29.html</link>
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Colchester R&amp;B wunderkind James Hunter’s follow-up to 2006’s People Gonna 
  Talk was recorded with Liam Watson at the latter’s analogue refuge Toe Rag 
  Studios, with none other than New Orleans piano legend Allen Toussaint 
  adding his inimitable piano to several tracks. 

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					<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 06:58:27 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: captain beefheart, electricity (spv)]]></title>
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This double-album of material culled from Beefheart’s early years presents him 
  rather as one of the great instinctive white bluesmen of his era, with The 
  Magic Band’s strut-stomp backbeat providing an infectious undercarriage for 
  Ry Cooder’s slideguitar and the Captain’s gruff entreaties on “Sure ‘Nuff 
  ‘n’ Yes I Do”, and the twitchy, theremin-laced “Electricity” demonstrating 
  how he would push the blues into the future. 

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					<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 06:58:27 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: juan garcia esquivel, mexico days (él)]]></title>
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Now renowned as the Latin American equivalent of lounge-music auteurs such as 
  Martin Denny and Les Baxter, the Mexican composer/arranger Esquivel made 
  “space-age bachelor pad music” with an added exotic frisson, never afraid of 
  incorporating unusual new sounds – theremin, lap steel, etc – and 
  avant-garde techniques such as collaging and found-sound recordings into his 
  bizarre records. 

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					<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 06:58:27 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: hadouken!, music for an acclerated culture]]></title>
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Sort of a British version of Spank Rock with a troubled conscience, Leeds 
  combo Hadouken! traffic in a dynamic form of grimy, synth-driven technorock 
  which those who care about such things have already dubbed “grindie”. 

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					<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 06:58:27 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: the isley brothers, winner takes all (spv)]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/5d02f0cda8f378ac11a0dd30b59cd646/Album%3A+the+isley+brothers%2C+winner+takes+all+%28spv%29.html</link>
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Sporting what must be the most unfeasibly elaborate – and retrospectively 
  embarrassing – costumes ever worn by men of a certain age and girth, The 
  Isley Brothers nevertheless managed to reinvent themselves following their 
  Sixties Motown heyday by expediently augmenting the original vocal trio with 
  Ernie Isley’s squalling psychedelic guitar, Marvin Isley’s funk bass and 
  cousin Chris Jasper’s rhythmic keyboards – still keeping it in the family, 
  but taking it in another direction as soul mutated into funk. 

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					<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 06:58:27 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Live review: morning bride]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/f38bf7f0dcce929595987fbcd3a0f037/Live+review%3A+morning+bride.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[
Every once in a while you stumble upon a band and wonder how it is that not 
  more people know about them, but you’re secretly pleased they don’t. Morning 
  Bride are that kind of band. 

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					<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 04:58:15 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Live review: frightened rabbit]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/11d65c4cdab7e01dcd662ab1c496b2bb/Live+review%3A+frightened+rabbit.html</link>
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Continuing the long tradition of emotive Scottish indie rock that includes 
  Mogwai, Delgados and Arab Strap, Frightened Rabbit are the best of the 
  newcomers. We just need to hear their brilliant opening song, the upcoming 
  single “Fast Blood”. As frontman Scott Hutchison sings, “The 
  fast blood hurricanes through me”, the effect of his passionate vocals 
  is devastating. It is at once bleak and infectious, and a highlight from 
  their new album The Midnight Organ Fight. 

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					<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 04:58:15 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Bloogers need to take some responsibility]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/650da2e5bddd35fab1af85c445b83f6c/Bloogers+need+to+take+some+responsibility.html</link>
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The independent music sector represented by this magazine, in partnership with 
  The Independent, is alive and kicking, but not that you would think so, 
  judging by the continuing bad press for the music industry. 

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					<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 04:58:15 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Sex and the city: a dazzling entrance - but does their story have a happy ending?]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/cab60217844af1ea13927e33a839ab6f/Sex+and+the+city%3A+a+dazzling+entrance+-+but+does+their+story+have+a+happy+ending%3F.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[SJP wore a green tulle and feather dress by Alexander McQueen and a Phillip Treacy hat. The sun shone brilliantly, and the young, almost exclusively female crowd swooned happily. The most keenly anticipated London premiere of the year did not disappoint.  ]]></description>
					<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 03:58:31 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Russell brand wins radio gold award]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/18e0ec12d7078e2260b7409a72e58c96/Russell+brand+wins+radio+gold+award.html</link>
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Russell Brand won his first Gold award at the radio industry "Oscars" 
  - while Simon Mayo beat John Humphrys to Speech Broadcaster of the Year.

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					<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 03:58:31 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[A dazzling entrance - but does their story have a happy ending?]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/9408efdc4ecf00bac8d1791175e36204/A+dazzling+entrance+-+but+does+their+story+have+a+happy+ending%3F.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[SJP wore a green tulle and feather dress by Alexander McQueen and a Phillip Treacy hat. The sun shone brilliantly, and the young, almost exclusively female crowd swooned happily. The most keenly anticipated London premiere of the year did not disappoint.  ]]></description>
					<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 18:58:13 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[You write the reviews: roger lloyd pack, the maltings, wells-next-the-sea]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/7f1738de500d668f66e2faf65900aa3b/You+write+the+reviews%3A+roger+lloyd+pack%2C+the+maltings%2C+wells-next-the-sea.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[This was a good choice for the opening night of the 11th Poetry-next-the-Sea festival in Norfolk. Roger Lloyd Pack, best known for his role as Trigger in Only Fools and Horses, commands a good audience even when poetry is the main topic. He was talking to Dame Gillian Beer, fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, in a Desert Island Discs-style format about his 10 favourite poems.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 18:58:13 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Day in the life: lucinda drayton, spiritual singer and md of blissful records]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/468f7ec8f5cbd1598a38085f90aafd4c/Day+in+the+life%3A+lucinda+drayton%2C+spiritual+singer+and+md+of+blissful+records.html</link>
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6.30am


I get up and feed my puppy, Willow, before going downstairs to sit in my 
  meditation room for 45 minutes. Meditation is about directing the mind on 
  peaceful, positive thoughts. It helps me to remember what I’m supposed to be 
  doing rather than getting caught up in daily business. Over a breakfast of 
  porridge and my one coffee of the day, I read a spiritual study. I avoid 
  listening to the news first thing as it fills my head with the bad things 
  happening in the world. 

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					<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 12:58:57 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Another day in space]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/946cec49c40c02f779143c850880a17b/Another+day+in+space.html</link>
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The World Cup in 2006 was another forgettable performance by England, 
  especially in the anthem stakes. Embrace’s uninspiring official recording 
  “World At Your Feet” was overshadowed by a way more uplifting track, “Eenie 
  Meany”, featured on a football boot ad and a perfect introduction to 
  Mancunian solo artist Jim Noir’s playful, innocent ditties. 


Two years on and the European championships are due, this time without 
  England, and probably also sans a Noir composition, for the bedroom 
  wizard has retuned with what has been heralded as a space travel-inspired 
  concept album, light years away not only from his debut, but from this 
  summer’s grass-based dramas in Switzerland and Austria. 

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					<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 10:59:15 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Label profile: cherry red]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/186088b7bf24ba5e5f8e53f9ca22bea0/Label+profile%3A+cherry+red.html</link>
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“When we started in 1978, what Cherry Red prided itself on was its diversity,” 
  says Iain McNay, Cherry Red’s founder and chairman. “Labels such as Factory 
  Records and Rough Trade had a certain image, but you couldn’t pin us down 
  musically – we were a bit all over the place.” 


As Cherry Red (named after a track from the Groundhogs’ album, Split) 
  celebrates its 30th birthday this year, it’s a philosophy that has served it 
  well. Not only has its music covered many a genre, but the business model 
  has adapted over time. The Cherry Red empire now spans 12 sub-labels putting 
  out a variety of music – and McNay is always open to more. 

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					<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 10:59:15 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Ones to watch: the best five up-and-coming acts]]></title>
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Bon Iver 


The schtick about being conceived while “hibernating” in a North Wisconsin log 
  cabin may repel some as much as it attracts others, but it becomes rather 
  irrelevant once you hear the resulting album. Justin Vernon, who goes under 
  the bastardised French moniker of Bon Iver, has crafted a collection of 
  first-rate, down-tempo Americana, sung not with the usual gravelly, bourbon 
  sodden bass but more often than not in an unearthly falsetto. Fans of 
  Grizzly Bear or Iron And Wine would do well to take note. The live show 
  impresses too: the band’s triumphant struggle against a ludicrously loud 
  punk rock band was a highlight of this year’s SXSW festival.


The album ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’ is out on 4AD on 12 May. Bon Iver is on 
  UK tour until 20 May.

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					<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 09:58:53 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Music & me: gareth of los campesinos]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/54da26571353736cb998d65ce70cec4a/Music+%26+me%3A+gareth+of+los+campesinos.html</link>
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The first record I bought was…


“CU when u get there” by Coolio. I’ve held my head up high, poor and righteous 
  ever since, just like Coolio wanted. 


The first gig I went to was… 


Hear’Say. Birmingham NEC. Totally Rad.


My favourite album is…

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					<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 06:58:49 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Death cab for cutie, electric ballroom, london]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/ece841b965d18eb1356b91cabcefc0e8/Death+cab+for+cutie%2C+electric+ballroom%2C+london.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[
To a sea of checked shirts and asymmetrical haircuts, Death Cab For Cutie 
  performed a pointedly upbeat greatest hits set with a cheery professionalism 
  refreshing for a group who have laboured under the description "emo" for the 
  majority of their five-album career. 

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					<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 06:58:49 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[A hip-hop rescue - how indie labels are giving the genre a fresh start]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/c8f21c6016665aa1b40926af26decd2c/A+hip-hop+rescue+-+how+indie+labels+are+giving+the+genre+a+fresh+start.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[
At first glance, hip-hop circa 2008 seems a jaded and forlorn soul. Sure, its 
  marquee names–Kanye West, 50 Cent, The Neptunes – still all eat well, but 
  rap music as a whole has seen its mainstream profile eclipsed by a new crop 
  of indie rock bands, a shift reflected in the much-quoted 20-plus per cent 
  slump in sales of the genre between 2005 and 2006. Hip-hop’s major record 
  labels – once guaranteed sizeable returns at the cash registers from their 
  star rosters – are feeling the pinch and have promptly slashed promotional 
  budgets, cut staff and dropped artists. 

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					<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 06:58:49 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[The 5-minute interview: jules knight, musician]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/d1051dd6f3c3c20d137225865fa752e0/The+5-minute+interview%3A+jules+knight%2C+musician.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Jules Knight, 26, is a quarter of Blake. Formed on Facebook a year ago, the band won Album of the Year at the Classical Brits. ]]></description>
					<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 19:58:28 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Peter, aged 12, is youngest young musician of the year]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/cc1e3365633aa1977a306094d54a30b5/Peter%2C+aged+12%2C+is+youngest+young+musician+of+the+year.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[He is not even in his teens and is dwarfed by his instrument – but Peter Moore is already a musical star.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 19:58:28 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Nick cave & the bad seeds, hammersmith apollo, london]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[
The gangly Aussie showman from the titchy town of Warracknabeal implores us to 
  screech "Oh Mama" during the grisly murder anthem "Lyre of 
  Orpheus". And, very obediently, we all do. Nick Cave, in feverish 
  preacher mode, and his apostles, the Bad Seeds, manage, despite all the 
  technical hitches, to deliver a blistering sermon. You can imagine them 
  going down a storm in 17th-century Salem, spitting hellfire. 

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					<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 18:58:19 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Sculptors go to war with boris]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/bd090659d4e0101e5215a0a9bea30ce8/Sculptors+go+to+war+with+boris.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Leading figures from the arts world criticised Boris Johnson, the new Mayor of London, and said he would be forced into an embarrassing climbdown over his pledge to scrap the competition for a temporary work of art to be placed on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square every 18 months.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 18:58:47 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: beth rowley, beth rowley (blue thumb/universal)]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/c28efbb46092e083ad9f873a5155f0b3/Album%3A+beth+rowley%2C+beth+rowley+%28blue+thumb%2Funiversal%29.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[
Soulful, sultry, smoky, smooth as expensive paint and deeply glossy. You can 
  see why Beth Rowley is highly recommended. 

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					<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 18:58:47 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: orchestre national de barbes, alik (discovery)]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/69c7b90e9a2d8b40be619fdfdbb9fddb/Album%3A+orchestre+national+de+barbes%2C+alik+%28discovery%29.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[
Orchestre National De Barbes take their name from Barbes, the district of 
  Paris where these West and North African musicians hail from. 

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					<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 18:58:47 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: messaien, quatuor pour le fin du temps – hebrides ensemble (linn)]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/1284ba2509431325b8c02cd343033c77/Album%3A+messaien%2C+quatuor+pour+le+fin+du+temps+%E2%80%93+hebrides+ensemble+%28linn%29.html</link>
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Written and premiered in Stalag VIII-A, the POW camp where Messaien, 
  clarinettist Henri Akoka, cellist Etienne Pasquier and violinist Jean Le 
  Boulaire were interned in 1940, "Quatuor pour le fin du temps" has 
  achieved iconic status. 

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					<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 18:58:47 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: flight of the conchords, flight of the conchords (sub pop)]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/16c4aad47ab029eb4980ecaf599cb6ea/Album%3A+flight+of+the+conchords%2C+flight+of+the+conchords+%28sub+pop%29.html</link>
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Comedy and music mix as well as oil and water, but Flight of the Conchords – 
  the Grammy-winning New Zealand duo of Radio 4/HBO fame – are one of the rare 
  and precious exceptions.  

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					<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 18:58:47 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: neil diamond, home before dark (columbia)]]></title>
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You know time has caught up with you when you are mentally preparing your 
  review of Scroobius Pip when your editor tells you that, instead, you have 
  been earmarked for the new Neil Diamond. 

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					<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 18:58:47 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: mahmoud fadl, for oriental dancers (piranha)]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[
The stereotyped Western notion of belly dance is a degraded version of the 
  Middle-Eastern reality: as dancers all over the world are now aware, this 
  style is about empowerment rather than powerlessness. 

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					<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 18:58:47 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Album: neon, here to there (basho)]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/3375c5d2674877cee3896ea5217f8903/Album%3A+neon%2C+here+to+there+%28basho%29.html</link>
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The unusual combination of instruments – sax, piano and vibes/marimba – for 
  this excellent new Brit-jazz trio creates a warm and attractive impression 
  straight away, with the rhythmic attack of vibist Jim Hart and pianist 
  Gwilym Simcock vanishing any danger of bland chamber jazz. 

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					<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 18:58:47 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Heart of the matter: jodi picoult on the real-life drama that inspired her new novel]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/40ce214ba30245be4d734c5f25251b29/Heart+of+the+matter%3A+jodi+picoult+on+the+real-life+drama+that+inspired+her+new+novel.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[ After a chilly photo-shoot under a blossoming cherry outside her Sloane Square hotel, Jodi Picoult  suddenly begins lampooning American  interviewers. "Year after year they ask questions like, where do you get your ideas from? – to which the best answer has to be: they arrive every Thursday morning, wrapped up neatly in brown paper."]]></description>
					<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 18:58:47 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[The matchmaker of périgord, by julia stuart]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/dea8d99096377ea8a469839ddec970f6/The+matchmaker+of+p%C3%A9rigord%2C+by+julia+stuart.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Julia Stuart very nearly creates gold dust with this quirky, effervescent tale of life in a French village. Renowned for the breeze that perpetually blows through its uneven streets, a wind that people from neighbouring districts say helps explain the lunacy which seems to have prevailed there since Roman times, it is a peculiar place. Two old women have been rowing for years over whether or not a cassoulet should contain tomatoes, and a keen swimmer once tried to con the council into providing a pool by having the townsfolk dress up in false beards and moustaches.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 18:58:47 -0500</pubDate>
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					<guid>http://en.rsspress.info/article/dea8d99096377ea8a469839ddec970f6/The+matchmaker+of+p%C3%A9rigord%2C+by+julia+stuart.html</guid>
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					<title><![CDATA[Coconut chaos: pitcairn, mutiny and a seduction at sea, by diana souhami]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/cee8a395e5c383937c8c5190b6951e24/Coconut+chaos%3A+pitcairn%2C+mutiny+and+a+seduction+at+sea%2C+by+diana+souhami.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[In 1789 Fletcher Christian led a mutiny on the Bounty. He eventually took the ship to Pitcairn Island – stopping on the way to capture some women – where he established the small community that still exists there.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 18:58:47 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[The day that cannes burned]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/43b390380300abbafdff57f5f11356f8/The+day+that+cannes+burned.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[ The Cannes Film Festival has often appeared to exist in a bubble. As the novelist Irwin Shaw observes in his book Evening in Byzantium, festival-goers generally pay little attention to political or social upheavals elsewhere. All they care about is "the sprocketed strips of acetate... carried around the city in flat, round, shining tin cans". ]]></description>
					<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 18:58:47 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[A hip-hop rescue - how indie labels are giving hip-hop a fresh start]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/9bce266e1597c4208515ce771a11f471/A+hip-hop+rescue+-+how+indie+labels+are+giving+hip-hop+a+fresh+start.html</link>
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At first glance, hip-hop circa 2008 seems a jaded and forlorn soul. Sure, its 
  marquee names–Kanye West, 50 Cent, The Neptunes – still all eat well, but 
  rap music as a whole has seen its mainstream profile eclipsed by a new crop 
  of indie rock bands, a shift reflected in the much-quoted 20-plus per cent 
  slump in sales of the genre between 2005 and 2006. Hip-hop’s major record 
  labels – once guaranteed sizeable returns at the cash registers from their 
  star rosters – are feeling the pinch and have promptly slashed promotional 
  budgets, cut staff and dropped artists. 

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					<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 08:58:16 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Harrison ford: whip hand]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/3d8010e92e34b500ecd36c5d136c6a8c/Harrison+ford%3A+whip+hand.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[The jokes have been wearily predictable. The news that Harrison Ford is to return to the silver screen as Indiana Jones, some 18 years after what was billed as his Last Crusade, has prompted a deluge of dodgy ageist puns. The 66-year-old star is ironically rebranded as Indefatigable Jones, and the film, variously, as Raiders of the Lost Memories, The Saviour of a Lost Art, and The Temple of Zimmer. Then there are all the inevitable gags about whips being swapped for hips, as in replacement.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:58:13 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[Where in the world is osama bin laden?]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/649543930b071d3a1b83fa02d43fa951/Where+in+the+world+is+osama+bin+laden%3F.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Film review: Camera-hogging US film-maker Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) returns with this disappointingly flimsy excuse of a doc. ]]></description>
					<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 03:58:35 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Deranged doomsday is a shocker]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/d9e0afdcac77446544db458d9f9a722c/Deranged+doomsday+is+a+shocker.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Film review: An energetically deranged, high-octane genre mash-up of Mad Max and, erm, Robin Of Sherwood. ]]></description>
					<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 03:58:35 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Honeydripper is a sweet treat]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/9d9be2b175aa7b618c8b0613c04b473c/Honeydripper+is+a+sweet+treat.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Film review: Writer/director John Sayles takes a pivotal moment in US history and imbues it with humanity in gently elegiac film Honeydripper. ]]></description>
					<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 03:58:35 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[1948: the first arab-israeli war, by benny morrisa history of modern israel, by colin shindler]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/8aa64cb55fd074a0a87ec292cb0783cd/1948%3A+the+first+arab-israeli+war%2C+by+benny+morrisa+history+of+modern+israel%2C+by+colin+shindler.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[During just two decades after the Second World War, dozens of new states were created. Most were products of colonial rule – in their majority, British rule – and its end. Many of their foundations involved violence, some (most obviously India and Pakistan) vicious massacre and ethnic cleansing. One of those postcolonial creations, though, remains unendingly contentious on a scale to which no other comes close. Why should the birth of Israel be celebrated, deplored and debated, 60 years on, so intensely as it is?]]></description>
					<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 18:59:01 -0500</pubDate>
					<category>Culture</category>
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					<title><![CDATA[The wisdom of whores, by elizabeth pisani]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/a6ad662a95c94087abc95f91c6e1ae87/The+wisdom+of+whores%2C+by+elizabeth+pisani.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[There are many things to like about this book, beginning with the title. The Wisdom of Whores is racy enough to make one pause before flashing it around on the Tube. The press release is similarly direct: "This is a book about sex and drugs," it says, and the contents do not disappoint. I have seldom read at such length and in such graphic detail about the sexual practices of junkies, prostitutes, transvestites, and clients, some of which were hard to comprehend. (Double anal sex? Foreskin soup? Really?). ]]></description>
					<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 18:59:01 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Book of a lifetime: life and times of michael k, jm coetzee]]></title>
					<link>http://en.rsspress.info/article/0747cab47f3e8d2d1110b3b647e906de/Book+of+a+lifetime%3A+life+and+times+of+michael+k%2C+jm+coetzee.html</link>
					<description><![CDATA[In 1994 I was studying law and philosophy, having made a conscious decision not to formally study literature lest my own "so-called creativity" fall victim to scholarly vivisection (a view I no longer hold: writing and criticism/ analysis are not always mortal foe).  ]]></description>
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