We learned about twee popper Dylan Mondegreen when we met the head of Norway’s Division Recordsat by:Larm. It was one of the most amazing moments at a music conference we’ve ever had because before he’d even tell us about any of the artists on his label he made us name every artist from Norway we [...]

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We forgot our MySpace password. Thank the universe for auto-remember. We dusted off the Subterranean page, deleted the spam and decided to run another installment of A&Ring our MySpace friend requests for you, loyal readers.
Gray Beast - we listened to them first because they kindly emailed us to say since we’re fans of Dntel perhaps [...]

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Ok, just one more Chris Walla clip we didn’t show you because we feel the need to admire his suit again.
We asked him if he thought the whole Canadian border scuffle was a sign from the fates that he should stick to analog recording. He replied with way more information that we thought we’d get!

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It might just be the eyebrows but The Rascals look rather Oasis-y to us. The sound, however, is…well, not really any one thing. It’s got the driving bass lines of a Love and Rockets, the angular guitars of a Franz/Arctic Monkeys and the lyrical arrangements of a Blur with just a dash of psychedelica thrown in for [...]

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We’ve been wondering how the whole successful up and coming band thing is working out for Vampire Weekend - they’re on the cover of the current issue of Spin, they’ll be MTV’s Artist of the Week next week and they’re touring through your town right now (hope you bought a ticket).
So we asked the guys to send us [...]

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