
CMU Music Network Taking music out to lunch and then leaving it with the bill
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As 2009 draws to its inevitable close, I seem to be spending most of my day contemplating the year's best music. It's possibly one of the most stressful things I have to do in this job. Mainly because I take it far too seriously. ...

CMU Music Network Top story: Sale of fake festival wristbands could boom in 2010 // Same Six Questions: Beak> // Club tip: HAVANA CULTURA album launch party
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Formed at the beginning of 2009, BEAK> are three Bristol musicians - Portishead's Geoff Barrow, Massive Attack bassist Billy Fuller and drummer Matt Williams (aka Team Brick). An eerie mix of krautrock ...

CMU Music Network Top story: Judge rules on Bluebeat.com without court hearing, owner responds // Same Six Questions: David Cronenberg's Wife // Approved: Grizzly Bear - Ready, Able video
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Formed in 2002, London-based antifolkers David Cronenberg's Wife are the brainchild of Stockport-born singer songwriter Tom Mayne. Described by Mark Lamarr as "where genius meets idiocy", DCW have a host of disturbing yet humorous songs. ...

CMU Music Network Have you voted in our Track Of The Year poll? You've all chosen one, right? http://tinyurl.com/cmutrackoftheyear2009

CMU Music Network Top story: MySpace close to buying Imeem // Same Six Questions: Alec Empire // Approved: The Plastiscines
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The driving force behind the creation of Digital Hardcore Recordings and founder member of the band Atari Teenage Riot, Alec Empire is somewhat of a veteran, having released his first records while still at school. ...

CMU Music Network Top story: A load of Michael Jackson: LAPD take it slow, Janet Jackson accuses the doc, Joe appeals // Same Six Questions: Ingrid Michaelson // Approved: OH NO ONO - Swim
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Ingrid Michaelson is an indie-pop singer-songwriter based in New York. Taking up piano at the age of five, she attended Manhattan's Third Street Music School and went on to the Jewish Community Center of Staten Island's Dorothy Delson Kuhn Music Institute. ...

CMU Music Network Voting for CMU Track Of The Year opens today - let us know your favourite song of 2009 at http://tinyurl.com/cmutrackoftheyear2009
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It's that time of year again, where we ask you to tell us your favourite track of the year. Just let us know your decision via this handy form, along with some details about who you are and why you made your choice. We'll publish some of your responses in CMU Daily over the coming weeks.

CMU Music Network Top story: Terra Firma's latest EMI debt proposals knocked back // CMU-Tube: a 2009 selection // Approved: Free Jeremy Warmsley EP
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It's that time of year again, where we ask you to vote for you favourite track of the year. Because we like to hear what you think. Really, we do. But we realise that a lot of tracks get released in any twelve month period, which can make the choice a tricky one. ...

CMU Music Network Keeping moaning to a minimum
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This time last week, I was in Japan. I don't want to be a travel bore about it, but it was pretty amazing. You should go. And take me with you. I don't recommend coming back, though - it's not worth the jetlag. ...

CMU Music Network Top story: PPL collaborate with PRS for Music on new charities licence // Same Six Questions: Jamie Cullum // Club tips: Ten Years Of Wang + Sweatshop at East Village Club
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You know Jamie Cullum, right? He's that guy who plays the jazzed up pop (or is it popped up jazz?) that folks seem to like a lot. Over the last decade he's picked up awards left right and centre, sold ...

CMU Music Network Is the album really doomed? http://bit.ly/4cVK7s

CMU Music Network Top story: Three-strikes through the back door via world treaty? // Same Six Questions: The Good The Bad (TGTB) // Approved: The Miserable Rich
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The Good The Bad come fast and hard out of Denmark with a noisy mix of surf rock and flamenco. There's no space for vocals, so they don't have any. Just two guitars, some drums and a dangerous amount of pent up energy. ...

CMU Music Network Now Steven Tyler says he isn't leaving Aerosmith. At a gig organised by Joe Perry. With Perry on stage with him. So that's cleared up then.

CMU Music Network Top story: Observer Music Monthly to close // Same Six Questions: Cradle of Filth // Approved: Three Trapped Tigers - 6 video
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Formed in 1991, Cradle Of Filth are arguably Britain's biggest extreme metal band, led by frontman Dani Filth with a fluctuating line-up which has seen more than twenty musicians pass through the ranks. ...






















