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Never Content: Air France announce split

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“We are restless people, always wanting to try different things, never able to let a song be.”

Heard, and Taken Seriously: Ephebiphobia and The School of Rockupy

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Jude Clarke speaks to Jamie Kelsey-Fry of Occupy London to find out more about the School of Rockupy project.

A Christmas message from Fairewell

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“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.”

Summer Camp x Icona Pop: The Movie

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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.

Can’t Stop The Signal: The Radio Dept.

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With the recent re-issue of The Radio Dept. back catalogue on heavyweight 180g vinyl, The Line Of Best Fit take a look back at the three albums that have shaped and carved an undeniable arc in modern alternate pop culture. What follows is a wonderful insight into one of Sweden’s best kept secrets.

Festival Diary: Truck 2011

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The 14th edition of Truck festival takes Buzz Stas into the mild mannered, sun soaked Oxford countryside for a little bit of Gruff Rhys, Trophy Wife, Chad Valley, Caitlin Rose and Truck larger-blurred boogieing.