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		<title>TLOBF Loves&#8230; Passion Pit</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/09/tlobf-loves-passion-pit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Whyman</dc:creator>
		
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In my boyish, bug-eyed enthusiasm,  every now and then a song will come along into my life and I'll hear  it and just be like: "yup, *that's* pretty much where music is right  now, my life from hereon out is basically going to be defined by this  song. This song... this is the song for me." I've felt that way  about all sorts- 'Mr Your On Fire Mr' by Liars, ...]]></description>
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		<title>TLOBF Loves&#8230; The New Southpaw Soviet</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/08/tlobf-loves-the-new-southpaw-soviet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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This unsigned London band are named after the fact that all of their members have that singularly curious trait – they are left-handed. Formed by brother and sister Jim and Jen Robottom and also comprising drummer Ben Rawlence, multi-instrumentalist Isabel Why and vocalist/guitarist Alex Rennie, they had the tastefulness to invite TLOBF to listen to their demo recordings.
That demo comprises four tracks of painstakingly-constructed, energetic populist rock, all jangly guitars and vocal harmonies. The band's ...]]></description>
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		<title>TLOBF Best of 2008: Jan - June</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/07/tlobf-best-of-2008-so-far/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Line Of Best Fit</dc:creator>
		
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If we're to quote The Cranberries (and why shouldn't you?), "Everybody else is doing it, so why can't we?". As we've past the halfway point in this year of 2008, it seemed like a good time to look back. What have been the musical higlights of the year so far? We've had some absolutely corking albums released, from Fleet Foxes genre defying debut, to Elbow's continued cultured and heartwarming release. It might surprise some of ...]]></description>
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		<title>TLOBF Loves&#8230;Rubies</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/06/tlobf-lovesrubies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Lemmon</dc:creator>
		
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Music makes connections. Through their music, lead vocalist/songwriter Simone Rubi and bassist/vocalist Terri Lowenthal of the Oakland bedroom disco band Rubies strive to make human connection their ultimate modus operandi.

Friends for seven years and former members of the now defunct Oakland pop ensemble Call and Response, Lowenthal and Rubi form the nucleus of the band, rounded out for live shows by Nicolas Dobbratz on guitar and vocals, and Øyvind Skarbø on drums. Currently signed to ...]]></description>
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		<title>TLOBF Loves&#8230; Fear Of Music</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/06/tlobf-loves-fear-of-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Pay</dc:creator>
		
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Glancing at a photo of Fear  Of Music, some people might disregard them on the assumption that they  are yet another generic indie band. Well, all that can be said is ‘more  fool them'. These fresh-faced Mancunians are anything but generic.

Since being spotted in 2001  during their teenage years, Fear Of Music have been pricking up ears  nationwide, give or take a few line-up changes along the way. Having  ...]]></description>
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		<title>TLOBF Loves&#8230; frYars</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/06/tlobf-loves-fryars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brainlove</dc:creator>
		
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frYars, aka the nineteen year old Ben Garrett, is something of a prodigy. His first two releases, EPs entitled 'The Ides' and 'Olive Eyes', combine lo-fi electronics with a rich, timbred voice and songs about childhood, jealousy, incest, cannibalism, war and murder; but there's a contrasting lightness in frYars' pop ditties that shows a pleasing sense of perversity.

Trying to pigeonhole frYars' has proved tricky to the journos that have tried - widespread Nick Cave comparisons ...]]></description>
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		<title>TLOBF Loves&#8230; The Last Dinosaur</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/06/tlobf-loves-the-last-dinosaur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Thane</dc:creator>
		
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Formed in late 2006 The Last Dinosaur started out as a project between two friends, Jamie Cameron and Luke Hayden. Brought together by a mutual love of Peep Show, crisps, late nights and kids television programs -surely the vital foundation for any longterm friendship? One evening (possibly after one too many episodes of Peep Show), the pair for no other reason than that they were a little bit bored and felt a tad creative layed ...]]></description>
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		<title>TLOBF Loves&#8230; J. Tillman</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/06/tlobf-loves-j-tillman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Gurney</dc:creator>
		
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J. Tillman is from Seattle, he used to play drums in a post-rock band called Saxon Shore, but left after one album. Soon after he started writing and performing singer/songwriter type music, mixing folk, country and blues, releasing a couple of limited release and not widely well known albums.

Now, I hesitate to use the word ‘sensitive’ because of various negative connotations that it has accrued over the last decade or so, but when I first ...]]></description>
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		<title>TLOBF Loves&#8230;Dark Meat</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/05/tlobf-lovesdark-meat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 07:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ro Cemm</dc:creator>
		
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Photographs by Bryan Bruchman

I have a confession to make. My name is Ro Cemm, and I am addicted to big bands. It started when going to see Godspeed!, moved on to following the Polyphonic Spree round the country, and then to begging the End of The Road people to bring over a then unheard of 26 peice twee pop band from Sweden going by the name of I’m From Barcelona. Throw in The Young Republic ...]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Cambridge Folk Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/05/preview-cambridge-folk-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 10:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Marling</dc:creator>
		
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While the big names like Joan Armatrading, k.d. lang, Billy Bragg and The Levellers need little introduction, there are always some less familiar names on the bill of the Cambridge Folk Festival that are easily missed, while often ending up as highlights for those lucky enough to catch them. And it's a long way from being a full-on 'diddly diddly' weekend either, despite what the name implies. Tickets for this year's Festival go on sale ...]]></description>
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		<title>Win copies of the Official Heroes Soundtrack!</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/05/win-copies-of-the-official-heroes-soundtrack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 13:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Hughes</dc:creator>
		
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It's an Official TLOBF endorsed TV show, Hereos  is back on the BBC. Hoorah!

Those lovely people over at Way To Blue PR company have given us 10 copies of the Original Soundtrack to the show, featuring brand new tracks from the likes of Iggy Pop, Wilco, Nada Surf, Death Cab For Cutie and The Jesus and Mary Chain, to name but a few.

The HEROES Original Soundtrack is available to buy now on iTunes ...]]></description>
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		<title>TLOBF Loves&#8230; It Hugs Back</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/05/tlobf-loves-it-hugs-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 09:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Hughes</dc:creator>
		
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If you believe The Buggles, "Video killed the Radio Star". Well, I'm afraid to say, they were wrong. Radio is, in my opinion at least, having a bit of a renaissance at the moment. The advent of digital and web radio has seen the number of stations on offer explode, whilst MTV and VH-1 have taken to showing endless repeats of Pimp My Ride and documentaries on Whitney Houston. But I'm straying from the point. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Big Scary Monsters make it to 50 releases. We celebrate by giving stuff away!</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/05/50-not-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 14:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Thane</dc:creator>
		
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Home to such fine, fine names as House Of Brothers, Yndi Halda, This Town Needs Guns and the now defunct Meet Me In St Louis, Big Scary Monsters records are just about to unleash their 50th release! A rarity in the rollercoaster world of independent labels. Good on them we say. To mark this very, very special occasion they are releasing a very nifty MP3 compilation CD, featuring yup, you guessed it, 50 of their ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hold Steady, Sebadoh, Caribou Round Out Pitchfork Festival Lineup!</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/04/hold-steady-sebadoh-caribou-round-out-pitchfork-festival-lineup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Lemmon</dc:creator>
		
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Plus: Times New Viking, High Places, Bon Iver, Elf Power, HEALTH, Mahjongg, Icy Demons, Titus Andronicus, Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar

Bravo Windy City! Bravo! The lineup for the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival-- blasting minds at Chicago's Union Park July 18-20-- is officially complete. And it looks very impressive.
Pitchfork filled out out Friday's Don't Look Back festivities (held in conjunction with All Tomorrow's Parties), with lo-fi indie rock juggernauts Sebadoh, who will perform their soon-to-be-reissued 1993 album Bubble and Scrape in its ...]]></description>
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		<title>A Year With Bowie [Part 5] - April</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/04/a-year-with-bowie-part-5-april/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Rueben</dc:creator>
		
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I hate dogs. If I had my way, each and every dog in this fair nation of ours would be rounded up and shipped to a little island of their own. There, they could merrily sniff each other's backsides and I would never be bothered by them again. Don't worry, if you have a dog, I would let you visit it. I am not that much of a Nazi. I would allow one boat a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Way Out West Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/04/preview-way-out-west-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Marling</dc:creator>
		
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While Gothenburg (or Goteborg if you’re a local) plays second fiddle to the rather more glamorous Stockholm in terms or tourism, it’s got a massive student population, a great bar scene and is home to one of the best up-and-coming festivals in Europe, Way Out West.

Held in Slottsskogen, a massive, beautiful park on the edge of the city, as well as in the city’s clubs and venues, Way Out West runs from August 8-9 as ...]]></description>
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		<title>TLOBF Loves&#8230; Toykult</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/04/tlobf-loves-toykult/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Marling</dc:creator>
		
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I discovered Doncaster's finest (OK, I'm guessing here), Toykult, via a random friends invitation on mySpace – love it or loathe it, it has its uses - and I immediately took to their playful brand of dancy electronica. While there was an obvious sophistication, there was also a good dose of northern humour thrown in and while there was a dark, almost gothy edge to many of the tunes, they were also undeniably danceable.

The closest ...]]></description>
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		<title>TLOBF Loves&#8230; Family Machine</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/04/tlobf-loves-family-machine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Moore</dc:creator>
		
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Once in a while an album comes along that, right from the first bars, that makes itself so cozily at home on your shelf it feels like you’ve owned it for years. Wilco and Billy Bragg did it with Mermaid Avenue, but they had a slight advantage in the form of fame, fortune (relatively speaking) and thousands of unpublished Woody Guthrie songs to work with. If you're the Family Machine though, a debut from four ...]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Download Festival 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Skibeat</dc:creator>
		
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The famous Donington Park motor racing circuit first flirted with all things heavy metal back in 1980 when the Monsters Of Rock festival was born. Bands of the calibre of Rainbow and Judas Priest (who are making what is hoped to be a triumphant return this year) dragged in the headbangers from far and wide. It was such a success that it became an annual event remaining quiet for only a few years here and ...]]></description>
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		<title>TLOBF Loves&#8230; Cats In Paris</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brainlove</dc:creator>
		
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Cats In Paris are named after a scene from a dream in which a giant cat with paws the size of dump trucks scales the Eiffel Tower like a feline King Kong, swiping away helicopters like flies as it's huge claws lock over the girders... imagine it, this monstrous beast, with a purr that feels like an earthquake, tectonic blinking lids sliding over it's vast green eyes, and that sinister cat smile that says ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Look Out Post: April 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Hughes</dc:creator>
		
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Ahh... April, Spring is finally in the air, the snow has melted and the nights get lighter. It's my favourite time of the year. So, it's probably apt that I get to write The Look Out Post for this month. And there's some good stuff to look forward to as well...

Starting on a purely musical front, I've been enjoying the third album from Canadian's Ladyhawk, Shots. They're take on the dirtier, darker side of Indie-Americana has had ...]]></description>
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		<title>TLOBF Loves&#8230; The Botticellis</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/03/tlobf-loves-the-botticellis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Lemmon</dc:creator>
		
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California may not be as inexorably linked to surf music as it was before the collapse of The Beach Boys but tenuous threads still connect the waves with the Golden State. The Botticellis’ debut, aptly titled Old Home Movies, is a shimmering analog paean to sun-bleached daydreaming. And like those Super 8 movies your parents dust off, the grainy pictures blur at the edges. Movies was recorded at Tiny Telephone at at the ensemble’s communal ...]]></description>
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		<title>A Year With Bowie [Part 4] - March</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Rueben</dc:creator>
		
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"Pushing thru the market square, so many mothers sighing
News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in
News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying"

If there is a greater album opener than this song, I am yet to find it. 'Five Years' represents Bowie at his very best, at his most challenging and artistic, opening his most ...]]></description>
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		<title>TLOBF Loves&#8230; The Accidental</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/03/tlobf-loves-the-accidental/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Hughes</dc:creator>
		
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What do you get when you mix together Trunk Records co-founder (Stephen Cracknell), a member of Tunng (Sam Genders), one half of the Fence Collective duo The Bicycle Thieves (Hannah Caughlin) and the singer-songwriter Liam Bailey? The answer is the wonderfully hypnotic melodrama of The Accidental.

According to their website, their name came from a series of chance and "accidental" meetings of Cracknell and Genders over the past couple of years at various festivals. Hannah joined ...]]></description>
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		<title>TLOBF Debate&#8230; Add to your collection?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Rueben</dc:creator>
		
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The Word magazine this month features an excellent interview with the wonderful Elvis Costello where, amongst other things, they discuss his substantial music collection. A rabid purchaser of records and CD's, he recounts a recent tale of spending some $700 in one trip to a store, adding to the ever growing library already assembled. A few years back, a house move from the UK to the US caused Costello to take stock of his possessions, ...]]></description>
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		<title>TLOBF Loves&#8230; The Veils</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/03/tlobf-loves-the-veils/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jude Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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London/New Zealand band The Veils have released two albums in two different incarnations – 2001’s The Runaway Found and 2006’s Nux Vomica - the common denominator for both being tortured-soul frontman Finn Andrews.

Andrews (son of XTC and Shriekback’s Barru Andrews) has one of modern music’s genuinely impressive and distinctive voices, and an intense-yet-frail beauty to accompany it. Often coming across like a croaking impassioned torch singer, he is probably one of those performers that you'll either ...]]></description>
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		<title>TLOBF Loves&#8230; Toumani Diabaté</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/03/tlobf-loves-toumani-diabate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ro Cemm</dc:creator>
		
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Toumani Diabaté is one in a long line of Malian musicians or griots. Reknowned for their musicianship and vocal skills, members of his family have accompanied warriors on to the battle field to document the event in song for centuries. These griots were a counterpart to the western idea of a bard, a musical CNN, telling tales of battles, births, deaths, marriages and continuing to pass down the Mande folklore of West Africa. Although no ...]]></description>
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		<title>TLOBF Loves&#8230; Benjamin Blower</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/03/tlobf-loves-benjamin-blower/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Rueben</dc:creator>
		
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Benjamin Blower is part of the Zang Collective, a group of musicians based in Birmingham, self-producing, and releasing their own material under the Zang Productions label. The key members of Zang record as The University of the King, a band that can be best described (although they defy any category) as philosophical hip-hoppers, fusing beats and verbally intricate rap into a fusion of musical styles. Their 2006 album Zang Hibidy is a hip hop ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Look Out Post: March 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Thane</dc:creator>
		
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Neon Neon

First things first. It was our 1st birthday last week (27th February). Neither myself or Rich Hughes knew what we were letting ourselves in for when we started this place, and needless to say it's become a true labor of love that wouldn't be what it is without you, the reader and of course our ever growing team of writers who we all love equally. We thank-you. Just one thing though... Where the hell ...]]></description>
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		<title>6Music: Leading the fight or losing its way?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ro Cemm</dc:creator>
		
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On the 11th March 2002, the BBC launched its first new national music station in 32 years. That station was BBC6 Music, and with it came a slogan: “Closer To The Music That Matters”. The station was to be a sister station to Radio Two, and was supposed to provide an alternative to the more mainstream, youth orientated Radio One. Often featuring archive recordings from the BBC’s extensive collection, or championing new talent in live ...]]></description>
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