Music Features
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Marnie Stern (Interview)
Marnie Stern guzzles a Venti Chi Latte and attempts to cut her own hair while talking to Sean Caldwell about her music, her new demo release and what inspired her to pick up a guitar.
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MMXI: A Musical Guide
Now 2011 has settled down and we're a few weeks in, we can get on with looking forward to the big albums that will be released in the next twelve months. Who's going to get it right? Who's going to surprise as all? Who's going to suffer from "difficult second album syndrome"? Lukas Clark-Memler reveals all in his comprehensive look at the year ahead.
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Track Of The Day: January
One day a man had an idea, an idea so potent it would make No Ripcord into the leviathan, amateur, web-based, pop music journal that it undoubtedly deserves to be. But then he realised that that would be really, really hard work; so instead he settled on suggesting a song he liked to those who happened to be following on Twitter or Facebook at the time - Track Of The Day was born and this is its story.
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The Go! Team (Interview)
Just as album #3 hits the shops and they embark upon a UK tour, Ian Parton of Brighton sextet The Go! Team caught up with Joe Rivers to talk commercials, collaborations and cassette tapes.
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Staff Playlist #3 - The 1960s
In the latest of No Ripcord's collaborative playlists, we go back half a century to uncover the best songs of the 1960s.
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Perfect Pop #1: ABC - The Lexicon of Love
In the first installment of our new Perfect Pop Series, David Coleman reflects on the enduring power of ABC's 1982 masterpiece, The Lexicon of Love.
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What's the Rumpus? #2 - What Women Want
Joe Gastineau takes a look at the world of film directors, and finds it's still very much a man's world.
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How the Internet Changed Music Part 4: New Artists
Wrapping up the series, Joe Rivers looks at the opportunities the Internet affords up-and-coming artists and talks to a band hoping to make it big for their take on it all.
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How the Internet Changed Music Part 3: Listening and Discovery
In the penultimate piece of the series, Joe Rivers looks at the rise of Apple as a major power in the world of music, and asks those in the know what the long-term future is for Spotify.
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How the Internet Changed Music Part 2: Blogging
In part 2 of the series, Joe Rivers canvasses professional opinion on the rise of amateur journalism and asks if it's a good thing that blogging is available to everyone.
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