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  Richard Ashcroft Returns To New York

  March 24, 2011 – The latest solo album from Verve singer Richard Ashcroft, United Nations of Sound, came out in the U.K last year, and reviews were not particularly kind in his home country. Last night at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC, making his first U.S. appearance in three years just a day after United was released in America, Ashcroft aimed to start fresh. …
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  EXCLUSIVE: Verve's Ashcroft Premieres Solo Song

  March 1, 2011 – On-again, off-again Britpop outfit the Verve broke up, for the third time, in 2009, following their excellent comeback album Forth. Bummer. But the split is bittersweet: The band's talented frontman Richard Ashcroft has seized the opportunity to release a genre-blending solo album under the nom de tune United Nations of Sound! Richard Ashcroft -- his collabo with hip-hop producer No I.D. …
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  New Albums From the Verve, Slipknot, Matthew Sweet, and More

  August 25, 2008 – Here's a rundown of what's available online and in record stores this week. …
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  SPIN's Week in Review, August 18-22

  August 22, 2008 – It was a busy week in SPIN.com-land, as we deployed our fearless rock'n'roll vagabond Zack on the road with Radiohead; hosted a stream of the entire new LP from Heavy Heavy Low Low; and debuted tracks from the Verve, Mercury Rev, and School of Seven Bells, among others. …
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  Exclusive Stream: The Verve, "Noise Epic"

  August 18, 2008 – Since the Verve officially split in 1999, the band's -- and not just frontman Richard Ashcroft's -- Shaman-like, transcendent qualities have been noticeably absent from the contemporary rock scene. …
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  Exclusive: New Verve Cover Art Revealed

  July 2, 2008 – It seems 2008 is destined to be the year the Brits take back rock radio. Following the critical and commercial smash of SPIN July cover boys Coldplay's Viva La Vida, Richard Ashcroft, Simon Jones, Nick McCabe, and Peter Salisbury are just about ready to regale us with Forth, the appropriately -- if ironically spelled -- titled album arriving Aug. 19 via the band's (also matter-of-factly christened) imprint, On Your Own. …
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  New Verve Album Out Aug. 19

  June 24, 2008 – After a ten-year absence, gaunt, shaman-like frontman Richard Ashcroft's recently reunited psych-pop outfit the Verve will return Aug. 19 with their yet-to-be titled follow up to 1997's acclaimed set Urban Hymns. Currently, confirmed details are sparse, but according to web rumors, the band's fourth album to date will be titled Four -- go figure! -- and will drop stateside on the Verve's On Our Own imprint. …
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