Ernest Greene’s life has changed quite a lot since mid-2009. Posting a handful of demos online from a bedroom in his parent’s house in Perry, Georgia caused waves of excitement across the indie blogosphere, and he was soon being championed as the posterboy of the then emergent genre ‘chillwave’, propelling him into the limelight. Just [...]

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It is 2012 and by this point it should be obvious to everyone that Girls Aloud are one of the UK’s all-time great pop bands, with five solid albums and some staggering singles (‘Biology’, ‘The Promise’, ‘Love Machine’) under their belts. They’re the best-selling reality TV winners by a ridiculous margin, and proof that a [...]

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In our second of many Epigram playlists to come, we’ve put together another collection of songs from the issue. It includes tracks by prettymuch everyone we’ve covered this issue, so you can keep up to date with new songs by Los Campesinos!, Leonard Cohen, Django Django and others. We’ve also included a couple of classics [...]

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It’s difficult to escape the bee sting pout of Lana Del Rey. Indeed, the Internet is awash with pictures of her sultry gaze, and numerous writers devote most of their waking hours speculating on the precise nature of the relationship between Lizzy Grant and Lana Del Rey. Are they merely alter egos, or is there [...]

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Lana Del Rey Born To Die Interscope 27 January 2012           So here we are: after weeks and weeks of catcalling and hairpulling by anonymous forum droolers, Lana Del Rey has released her (kind of) debut album. For a while, it was easy to forget that Lana Del Rey was actually [...]

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To say that the advent of the ‘superstar DJ’ has been transformative of the UK club zeitgeist throughout the last two decades would be irrefutably an understatement. Formerly underground jockeys have transformed their own sounds into high-production-cost, breathtaking extravaganzas, now seemingly preferring stadia to grass-roots clubs. But for Andy Carthy, stage name Mr Scruff, it’s [...]

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In 2001, the face of British music changed forever. Following a series documenting the search for the next big thing, five people of varying physical appearance and musical aptitude emerged as the winners of ITV’s Popstars. For the generation who first dreamt of ‘Nasty’ Nigel Lythgoe promoting them to fame and glory, ‘Bridge Over Troubled [...]

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