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Find Your Tribe
If you’ve got five minutes spare and fancy a laugh, pop over to Channel 4′s new project Find Your Tribe. FYI, various members of The Line Of Best Fit staff have come out as Indie Kids, Indie Scenesters, Hipsters and Craft Kids…
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TLOBF.COM : Now partnered with the Mog Music Network
As of today The Line Of Best Fit is part of the freshly launched Mog Music Network, or MMN for short. TLOBF were asked a few weeks ago to be one of 30 launch partners in the venture. So we said yes. Find out more inside..
Illegal downloaders set to get warning letters. Yikes!
If any of you download hooky albums then beware! The government are going to hunt you down and string you up by the short and curlies!
Mercury Music Prize Nominees announced
It’s that time of the year again… Whether anyone actually cares about the awards or not is open to as much debate as the worthiness of the nominees themselves. But, no matter – here is the shortlist in all its glory.
The Acorn nominated for ‘Best Canadian Act’: help them win!
You might think two consecutive posts about The Acorn may seem a little excessive. Well… it’s tough – they rule. And besides, this one is for a good cause..
TLOBF Best of 2008: Jan – June
To quote The Cranberries, “Everybody else is doing it, so why can’t we?”. As we pass the halfway point of 2008, it seemed like a good time to look back on the year so far.
6Music: Leading the fight or losing its way?
Ro Cemm investigates the recent changes at 6Music and questions whether its original mandate is being destroyed to make way for a station obsessed with celebrity culture.
Top 70 Albums of 2007
The time has come to give a defintive run down to reveal what has been voted as the album of 2007 by our team of writers, musicians and record label luminaries in the final installment of Class of 2007.
Class of 2007: Rich Thane (The Line of Best Fit)
The second instalment of The Line of Best Fit’s albums of the year. This time chosen by Rich Thane.
We All Fall Down (adventures in the big apple)
If you know me at all, you’re more than aware of my distant relationship with summer (yes, the season). We go back a long way but we’ve never gotten along. Spring, winter, autumn, bring them on! But summer, well, I’ve never been the biggest fan. I don’t tan. I burn. As a young’un the heat [...]
We All Fall Down (adventures in the big apple)
One thing never lacking in New York is noise. Continuous traffic (from my apartment window I can hear the Bee Gees blaring from someone’s car stereo on the highway a few blocks away), honking horns, helicopters and jet planes flying over head, the screeching of metal on metal as the subway train pulls into each [...]
Yep. Its End Of Year List Time.
Its that time of year again when the best of lists come out. Bloggers and critics from around the globe spend far too much time contemplating what should go in the top spot. Does it really matter? Probably not. But I care and to start things off here is my top 25 of the year. [...]
HEADLINES
- Best Coast announce UK headline tour, new album due in Spring
- Timber Timbre announced as support for Laura Marling tour
- Clarence Clemons’ nephew Jake Clemons joins the E Street Band
- Barack Obama drops campaign mixtape
- Cate Le Bon announces UK tour
- Kanye West and Jay-Z rumoured to be appearing in Shoreditch today
- The Flaming Lips, Friends and Tom Vek amongst those confirmed for The Parklife Weekender 2012
- Hot Chip, Mount Kimbie, Metronomy and more to play Sónar 2012
- Josh T. Pearson, Beth Jeans Houghton and Gilles Peterson added to The Apple Cart line-up
- Sigur Rós, The xx, The Horrors and more added to Bestival line-up
Videos
Latest Reviews
- Field Music – Plumb
- Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
- Coolrunnings – Dracula Is Only The Beginning
- Tennis – Young And Old
- Maribel – Reveries
- Woodpigeon – For Paolo
- Amanda Mair – Amanda Mair
- Karen Dalton – 1966
- Gotye – Making Mirrors
- Suzanne Ciani – Lixiviation
- James Levy and the Blood Red Rose – Pray To Be Free
- Thomas Truax – Monthly Journal
- Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks









