Matador Records' Biggest Bands Look Back
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October 7, 2010
Lady Gaga has been ranked No. 7 on the Forbes list of World's Most Powerful Women. The pop star joins Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Angela Merkel and Beyoncé Knowles in the Top 10. [Forbes]
Last night in London, Kanye West premiered his new short film Runaway, which features most of the music from his fifth album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Family. …
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October 1, 2010 Belle and Sebastian's name-making early records put shyness on wax, but the fame they achieved brought transformative confidence to the Scottish septet. …
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October 1, 2010 Fog, wind, the constant threat of rain-that was the scene at the Brooklyn waterfront Thursday night when Belle and Sebastian showed up to kick off their long awaited 14-date U.S. tour at the East River State Park.
It might have been appropriate weather for the Glasgow band a decade ago when they became the darlings of lo-fi melancholy. …
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September 17, 2010 Gary Lightbody is the frontman for Scot balladeers Snow Patrol, but with Tired Pony, his new group featuring R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Belle and Sebastian's Richard Colburn, and producer Jacknife Lee, among others, he has an all-new sound: country-tinged American roots music. …
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June 29, 2010 Like many a college student, NYC indie label Matador Records has chosen Las Vegas as the site of their 21st birthday, and their posse of revelers is packed with the biggest names from their expansive catalog.
Pavement, Sonic Youth, Belle & Sebastian, and the classic Bee Thousand-era lineup of Guided by Voices will headline three nights of music, October 1-3, at the Palms Hotel & Casino. …
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November 18, 2008 In a notably slow week for new releases, here's a rundown of the essential albums available online and in record stores today:
Dido, Safe Trip HomeBrit songbird suffers from post-Shady traumatic stress. READ REVIEW
Belle and Sebastian, The BBC SessionsDeceptively soft Scots flip through their edgier back pages. …
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November 12, 2008 What? It's been two years since seminal Scots Belle and Sebastian released their last record, the astounding The Life Pursuit. But fans feeling the need to fill the void with the glut of second-tier imitators have another option: BBC Sessions, an aptly titled collection of the band's BBC radio appearances between 1996 and 2001, out next week. …
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Red Hare, Nites Of Midnite
Christopher Paul Stelling, False Cities
Big Eyes, Almost Famous
Japanther, Eat Like Lisa Act Like Bart
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Mind Control
Pure X, Crawling Up The Stairs
pacificUV, After The Dream You Are Awake
Destroid, The Invasion
Marques Toliver, Land of CanAan
Roomrunner, Ideal Cities
Gene The Southern Child & Parallel Thought, Artillery Splurgin'
Human Eye, 4: Into Unknown
The So So Glos, Blowout
The Heliocentrics, 13 Degrees of Reality
Big Black Delta, Big Black Delta
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