Happy new decade! The Musical Chairs is back, recharged and refreshed for 2010 with lots of exciting things to happen throughout the year. They’ll be known to year when the time is right but for today I want to focus on the albums that I’m looking forward to in 2010. Last year provided us with [...]

Posted on January 4th, 2010 by Max
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The final part of the 50 for 2009 rundown! The top six entries were originally written for Sonic Dice but some of those entries have been expanded upon.
10. Röyksopp – Junior – Electropop has never sounded more fun in 2009. Junior, the third album by Norwegian duo Röyksopp, is another healthy balance of uptempo party [...]

Posted on December 16th, 2009 by Max
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Shockingly, this is the fifth time I’ve seen Patrick Wolf this year and this will probably be the last for a while. In what can only be assumed to be his swansong show for The Bachelor (save for some dates in Asia and Australia), the London Palladium played host to what was undoubtedly his biggest [...]

Posted on November 16th, 2009 by Max
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It’s only a few weeks until Patrick Wolf plays what is arguably the biggest show of his career at the London Palladium. Plans beyond that are pretty extensive. His second part of the ‘Battle’ set, The Conqueror, will be released in 2010 and is nearly finished. A couple of weeks ago he played a gig [...]

Posted on October 23rd, 2009 by Max
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So, a couple of days ago I had the most dumb idea in the world. After reading some posts made by Zoë Keating and Amanda Palmer on their own respective blogs. I kinda had the idea that I could summarise the issue of ‘what artists need to do to survive the music industry’ in a [...]

Posted on October 2nd, 2009 by Max
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