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CRIME writer Ian Rankin is preparing for an assault on the pop charts after teaming up with one of his favourite bands.

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IN HIS safari suit, Aberfeldy’s frontman could give wild man Lemmy a run for his money, writes Jonathan Trew.

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SCOTTISH band Arab Strap, who are to split after ten years together, have confirmed details of their farewell tour - including a last ever show in the Capital.

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THE Arctic Monkeys, who shot to fame on the internet and broke all records with their debut last night won the prestigious annual Mercury Music Prize, the music industry’s equivalent of the literary world’s Booker prize.

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MINUTES AFTER BEING NOMINATED FOR A prestigious hip-hop MOBO award last month, Kingslee Daley, aka Akala, called his big sister, Niomi, famously known as Ms Dynamite, to break the news. He coolly told her, almost as an aside: “Oh, by the way, Ni, I’ve…

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ANYONE who thought the sole genius of the Libertines was Pete Doherty would have been swiftly disabused of the notion had they witnessed this electrifying performance from Dirty Pretty Things.

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THANKS to an ability to comfortably go from rousing stadium rock to hook-infested indie anthems, Snow Patrol are subject to much derision from scenesters: namely, that they’re just another band in the Coldplay/Travis/Keane vein.

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IN THESE days of plummeting sales, of two copies per auntie securing a pop band a chart placing, what exactly does a Top 20 single mean?

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OVERLY busy, derivative and chock-full of confused lyrics, it’s all effort with little reward for Kasabian.

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THERE was a moment on Tuesday night, a flicker of a moment, when Thom Yorke raised his eyebrow just enough to allow us a peek through his eyes into the dystopian rock abyss that is the soul of Radiohead.

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