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The 10 greatest drummers ofAustralian alternative music - FasterLouder


The 10 greatest drummers ofAustralian alternative music
FasterLouder
Yesterday SPIN Magazine unveiled its somewhat dubious list of The 100 Greatest Drummers of Alternative Music. It'll surprise no one that Dave Grohl was top of the pile, but there was only one spot reserved for an Australian, the Dirty Three's Jim White ...


10 Things Duff McKagan Learned on the Summer Festival Circuit - RollingStone.com


10 Things Duff McKagan Learned on the Summer Festival Circuit
RollingStone.com
The camping is better, the lineups are incredible and, most critically, the casual rock, metal and alternative music fan on the other side of the pond has broader interests than his or her counterparts in the States. This is why festivals like Rock am ...

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Jemm Two launches with indie, rock and alternative music - ATV Today


Jemm Two launches with indie, rock and alternative music
ATV Today
The company boast that the station will feature the best indie, rock and alternative music. Described as the love child of XFM and 6 Music and aimed at festival-goers, Jemm Two showcases the best from the band, indie and modern rock scene in the UK and ...


Backdoor Music Project joins Youth Music Programme - Rochdale Online


Backdoor Music Project joins Youth Music Programme
Rochdale Online
Backdoor won the funding for alternative music school through the Youth Music programme who are the leading UK charity using music to transform the lives of children and young people, particularly those with least opportunity. Youth Music is funded by ...


The radical alternative - Morning Star Online


The radical alternative
Morning Star Online
David Rovics, indie musical activist, makes his living writing and performing what he calls "songs of social significance" - a line that's truthful and alliterative but which in no way encapsulates the insight, rage and occasional whimsy of the artist ...


Alternative music nights in Dubai - TimeOutDubai.com


TimeOutDubai.com

Alternative music nights in Dubai
TimeOutDubai.com
After celebrating their launch event in mid-March over three self-consciously underground editions, the night promised a large net of genres, from deep house, deep tech and techno to drum'n' bass, dubstep, prog psy, electro hop, UK vibes and hip-hop.


MM's top five... alternative Manchester music venues - Mancunian Matters


Mancunian Matters

MM's top five... alternative Manchester music venues
Mancunian Matters
But what about those more intimate venues which squeeze a few hundred people into a basement and show some of the best musical talent around? And Manchester, it seems, boasts plenty of those. MM takes a look at the top 5 alternative music venues the ...


Daft Punk: the midas touch - The Guardian


The Guardian

Daft Punk: the midas touch
The Guardian
Daft Punk's outsider mentality owed something to coming from France, whose pop music was then the butt of condescending jokes in the UK press and whose rave scene was hounded by the authorities. "Initially electronic music was anti-establishment, ...

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A dive into the history of Astralwerks' Gold Fields - Death and Taxes


Death and Taxes

A dive into the history of Astralwerks' Gold Fields
Death and Taxes
Well, I don't know if you've heard of Triple J Radio in Australia, but it's a nationwide Alternative music station and it's pretty much the only radio station that can really help young bands get their names out there. They started playing it on the ...


Four more bands are set to play The Venue - Ilkeston Today


Four more bands are set to play The Venue
Ilkeston Today
TheDismissiveATTACK!! are three lads from the Midlands with a love of alternative music of the heavier persuasion. In the year following the band's conception, they kicked off a gigging career in earnest, sharing the stage with Tubelord, Crazy Arm ...