As previously mentioned, after this week I’m taking a break from all things Musical Chairs for the next two weeks as I relax on holiday in Finland. This seems almost the perfect excuse to do a Five Songs feature on Finnish artists. In the last few months I have become more and more alerted to [...]

Posted on July 14th, 2009 by Max
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Another year, another bloody side-project from Jack White. When will he realise that he needs to stop making every idea he has, even if its one that is incomplete, into a reality? In the last few years most of his attention has been on The Raconteurs as they’ve recorded and toured two decent albums. Of [...]

Posted on July 14th, 2009 by Max
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Jay Reatard showed on Friday why Twitter can be so amusing by slagging off the entire of Brooklyn (and mainly The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart) based on its music scene. However, after his first tweet, which can be seen in full on the above picture, it got picked up by Stereogum and Pitchfork [...]

Posted on July 13th, 2009 by Max
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Since I’m going to be away for two weeks, I’m going to have a lot of free time. Therefore, it feels rather foolish to just have one artist featured in the final Recommend Me feature before the holiday, so I’m busting a gut and asking suggestions for not one, not two, but three artists. You [...]

Posted on July 13th, 2009 by Max
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Here is something of an advanced warning. This week will be the last week of Musical Chairs for a while as for the two weeks after this I am going to be on my holidays (in Finland for those who are curious). Whilst there will be a ton of really awesome features to look forward [...]

Posted on July 13th, 2009 by Max
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