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Arcade Fire announce Hyde Park show

Set to play London’s Hyde Park on June 30, Arcade Fire will be joined by Mumford & Sons, The Vaccines and Beirut.

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End of The Road announces more acts

End of The Road announces more acts

Beirut, Perfume Genius and Gruff Rhys all confirmed for End of The Road Festival 2011.

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Pitchfork Festival – Chicago 17-19 July 2009

Just because you operate the world’s most influential independent music website doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to put on a decent festival. Pitchfork give it a damn good try though…

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ATP vs The Fans Strike Back – Minehead, 8th-10th May 2009

We give you All Tomorrow’s Parties from two perspectives. Boy and girl. Adam Elmahdi and Kate Price give a detailed look at last weekends “The Fans Strike Back” event.

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ATP vs The Fans Strike Back. The Brainlove Chronicles.

Before we run our extensive review of last weekends ATP shenanigans, we asked John Brainlove’s to jot down some thoughts about the weekends happenings. Look out for a full review, plus a bumper photo feature coming very soon!!

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Various Artists – Dark Was The Night

It’s a 31 track compilation of exclusive songs to benefit AIDS and HIV awareness. It might also be the greatest grouping yet of TLOBF-friendly artists.

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‘Dark Was The Night’ – free download, and full tracklist

Download a track from the new 4AD compilation. ‘Knotty Pine’ by The Dirty Projectors and David Byrne is available inside. Plus info on how you can hear the whole 32 tracks before it’s 16th February release.

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Dark Dark Dark – The Snow Magic

Dark Dark Dark’s debut is an album filled with ruminations on death and the afterlife but makes a surprisingly uplifting listen… according to Adam Nelson anyway.

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4AD release AIDS Charity album – Bon Iver, The National and Arcade Fire contribute

4AD Records and AIDS charity Red Hot have joined forces with Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National to produce a whopping 32 track album of original material from all your favourite indie superstars.

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Zach Condon returns!

Beirut’s leader, Zach Condon, seems to have used his time off wisely… He’s got a pair of Ep’s to release at the beginning of next year.

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Herman Dune announce new album

The Herman Dune brothers have announced details of a new album, expanding their live line-up to include a whole host of guest players.

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Beirut / Tunng / The Twilight Sad – The Roundhouse, London, 10/07/07

Beirut / Tunng / The Twilight Sad – The Roundhouse, London, 10/07/07

Saturday night saw me take a trip into the heart of darkest Camden. Oh the horror, the horror. That Village Of The Damned where every spindly youth looks like they’re in the Klaxons. Making my own anti-fashion statement, I pulled on a stripey pullover from the Sainsbury’s Tu range and headed into town. There’s always [...]

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Beirut – Live, SXSW Festival. 2007 [Download]

Beirut – Live, SXSW Festival. 2007 [Download]

Photograph by Anne Lai We haven’t had any live downloads on here for a while. Sorry about that, we know how much you enjoy them. As a special treat to you, dear reader we’ve dug out this wonderful performance from Beirut, live at this years SXSW festival. Beirut – SXSW Festival 2007 [mp3 / bitrate [...]

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Beirut – Royal Festival Hall Foyer, 25th June 2007

Beirut – Royal Festival Hall Foyer, 25th June 2007

On a day when an instruction to meet at the ‘water feature’ at Festival Hall was quite a vague instruction, a few hundred of what seemed like London’s young, trendy and beautiful, plus me, gathered to relive the Glastonbury experience in more ways than one on the South Bank of the Thames last night. Beirut [...]

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