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There Is A Buzz That Never Goes Off: listen out for Tinnitus Awareness Week
Tinnitus Awareness Week aims to build knowledge of the condition amongst health professionals – but we should also encourage understanding amongst those who suffer or are at risk of tinnitus.
Sounds of my City / Manchester : Manchester’s Best Venues
In the second part of a series of articles about his hometown, proud Mancunian John Freeman highlights The Deaf Institute and Islington Mill as two shining examples of why, when it comes to watching live music, his fellow citizens have never had it so good.
Gil Scott-Heron – The Last Holiday. A Memoir.
“Words have been important to me for as long as I can remember,” Gil Scott-Heron states in this posthumous memoir. And it shows. Much more interested in looking around him than navel-gazing, The Last Holiday steers clear of conventions, resulting in an engaging book of interest even to those not hugely knowledgeable about the late musician/poet/author’s output.
Vive La France! Festival: Les Artistes
As Brighton’s Vive La France! festival draws nearer and nearer, we take a closer look at some the acts appearing.
Track by Track with I Break Horses
The mysterious creative force behind our album of the year takes us through the making of the record, track by track – and you can win an amazing bumper package of I Break Horses goodies including a day pass to the End of the Road Festival!
Best Fit 2012 Preview: Writers’ Picks
ncovering the vast range of tastes and influences that make The Line of Best Fit what it is, our writers talk about music from Breton through to Bad Religion, Chad Valley and Paper Route to Pet Shop Boys and Nicki Minaj. So read on for hints and tips of what 2012 is going to bring, and to find out what exactly makes our writers tick.
The End Of Fame: Studio announce split after 10 years
“Try making a ring tone out of this, you bastards.” Studio, the creators of some of the most essential and forward thinking progressive dance music of our generation have announced their split after ten years.
A Christmas message from Fairewell
“Christmas will never be routinely accused of being ‘hardcore for people who don’t like hardcore’ or be criticised for using valve emulation software on it’s guitar tracks. It’s beyond all that, and when people have a go at it I just stop listening.”
The Best Fit Fifty: Albums of 2011
This list is a selection of some of the records we’ve come to love over the course of the last twelve months.We hope there’s something here you love. Either way, we look forward to the flurry of tweets telling us how irredeemably shit our taste is, and how we oughtn’t dare publish anything of the sort next year or else. Happy Christmas.
The Best Fit Fifty: Tracks of 2011
The last twelve months have seen some of our favourite artists honing the art of the discrete track to perfection, while a handful of newcomers have quietly birthed undeniable delights of their own. Here’s our favourite fifty of 2011.
Commodified Authenticity: faux-folk and the manufacture of shared experience
Faux-folk packages up folk ‘authenticity’ and sells it back to us. It’s more than an irritation – it’s a symptom of capital’s dangerous powers of co-option.
L’Histoire de Serge Gainsbourg et Melody Nelson
Celebrating 40 years since its original release, Serge Gainsbourg’s seminal concept album Histoire de Melody Nelson is remastered, repackaged and reissued. Francine Gorman takes a look at the how the album came to be.
Festival Diary: Kütu Folk at Les Rencontres Trans Musicales, Rennes 1-3/12/2011
Kütu Folk Records take over a plush theatre at France’s Les Rencontres Trans Musicales festival, providing outstanding performances from Evening Hymns, The Delano Orchestra and a Kütu Folk super-group.
Ones To Watch 2012
Welcome to The Line Of Best Fit’s Ones To Watch 2012. Over the course of the next week we’ll be bringing you twelve artists, hand-picked by the editorial team, that we feel are destined for great things over the course of the next twelve months.
Summer Camp x Icona Pop: The Movie
Like every other self-respecting journal of popular music criticism, The Line of Best Fit was planning on writing glowing reviews of Summer Camp’s outstanding debut album as well as Icona Pop’s fantastic Nights Like This EP. In the course of research, however, we discovered the following manuscript at the bottom of a trunk in an attic sale.
