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last updated: November 12th 2009

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IDEAS

Brash, Brilliant - it's Super Pop! - Revised version: Patrick Wolf, Guillemots, TV on the Radio, The Week That Was

Minimalism to the max - Why this article had to change

The Look of Love - Why image matters - Last Shadow Puppets, Editors, Berlin Philharmonic

Why a box set will never bring you what you seek

Phil Legard says I like Einstein on the Beach by Phillip Glass

What the death of gig posters in a small town says about the state of the music industry

ANALYSIS

Portishead 3: The album as a horror movie

What the title track of The Good The Bad and The Queen means

The return of the gatefold sleeve, or a new kind of romance?

LIVE REVIEWS

Now:  Harsh Definitions - Leeds Festival 2009 new

Then: The Best Leeds Festival Review Ever - Flaming Lips, Pavement, Toploader, Pitchshifter and more

Such a beautiful child: Rufus Wainwright live review

Blurring the past - (new version 11/09) Damon's band reforms to no good effect new

Kissing in the corridor - Adam Curtis at the Manchester International Festival - by Mark Ellis

Bert Jansch live

The Indie Alan Bennett and all the jazz - David Gedge, BBC Big Band, Vessels, Fuse

ATTACKING THE MEDIA

Loops in knots - an open letter to Loops magazine

Behold! Why Grazia is better than the NME

MMR's Letter to the Guardian

Mr Everett True brand MMR 'the enemy'

Banging your head against a brick wall - letters to the dead, Uncut, Mojo, and Q

OUR DOINGS

modern music review: stunts (silly moments, noble ideas, utter failures)

MMR presents: Pagan Wanderer Lu

INTERVIEWS

Sean O'Hagan of The High Llamas new

David Gedge confesses

Ben Folds interview

Jesus and Mary Chain interview

The Handsome Family interview

 

 

 

 

'Notes from the great unfinished Radiohead article'' Chalmers/Littlewood 09

 

 

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“Our’s is not an alternative version of the past; it is an alternative view of the present as it is going on right now under our noses.”

- from MMR manifesto,

Shuffle this: Super Pop:

Patrick Wolf: The Magic Position

The Associates: Skipping

David Bowie: Blackout

Rufus Wainwright: Movies of Myself

Wild Beasts: Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyant

The Art of Noise: Close (To The Edit)

Ike & Tina Turner: River Deep, Mountain High

Guillemots: Don’t Look Down

TV On The Radio: I Was A Lover

Animal Collective: Summertime Clothes

The Beach Boys: I Know There’s An Answer

Beck: Diamond Bollocks

The Week That Was: Learn To Learn

Peter Gabriel: No Self Control

Belle & Sebastian: Dear Catastrophe Waitress

MGMT: Weekend Wars

XTC: Ballet For A Rainy Day

Paddy McAloon: I trawl the MEGAHERTZ

Scritti Politti: Wood Beez

The Grammatics: D.I.L.E.M.M.A.

Kate Bush: Hounds of Love

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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