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 Despite decamping to an actual studio for the first time to record their fifth album in just seven years, Times New Viking haven't exactly added much in the way of sheen to their trademark lo-fi sound on Dancer Equired, which is released this... |
 Shoegazing New Yorkers Asobi Seksu are about to hit the road across The UK to promote Fluorescence, their "sublime slice of dream... |
 Did someone order a one-band grunge revival?!? Because that's exactly what multinational four-piece Yuck are about to spark when they drop their self-titled debut album next... |
 Ragged Words is very excited to be introducing Brainlove Records and four of its most distinctive artists - Napoleon IIIrd, Pagan Wanderer Lu, Stairs To Korea & Mat Riviere - to Irish audiences for the first time this coming Saturday. Ahead of... |
 If Ragged Words were all a bunch of 17-year-olds, East LA three-piece Funeral Party would probably be the coolest thing we'd ever heard. And while we may (mostly) be well on the road to 30, the Walkmen-kinda-meets-early-Killers thing they've got going has still managed to get... |
 Ragged Words likes noisy Yorkshiremen Pulled Apart By Horses a lot. You may have noticed this because unfortunately the release of their blistering debut album coincided with this summer’s World Cup, and, well, not much got done around here for that month. Before we get back to the record... |
 When Javelin were in the UK a couple of months ago we asked them if they fancied writing one our 'My Life In Records' features or a 'Ten Things I Learned On... |
 We've been counting down to Wednesday's Choice Music Prize over the last few days and of all the band's whose albums are to be debated as the best Irish release of the last year, none have toured harder (or played louder) than Belfast's And So I Watch You From Afar. So naturally we asked... |
 Travelling around Europe late last year supporting Andrew Bird, Tom Waits' favourite nanny Jesca Hoop learned a thing or two and before setting out tomorrow on a UK tour that will take her from Cardiff to Belfast over the next month, she tells Ragged Words what those lessons were. |
 Montreal-based, Arcade Fire member-boasting, Bell Orchestre saw off festival season with a trip to Ireland's Electric Picnic. Drummer Stefan Schneider and trumpet/melodica player Kaveh Nabatian tell us what they learned. The band's new album As Seen Through Windows is out this week... |
 A trip that was some two years in the making - promoters Michael Pettis of Beijing label Maybe Mars and Shou Wang of Beijing band Car Sick Cars had previously brought Battles and Sonic Youth to China - brilliant Brooklyn/ Chicago trio These Are Powers joined that illustrious list and spent... |
 You'd think touring would be a good excuse to get away from your other half.... Wildbirds & Peacedrums Mariam Wallentin tells Ragged Words what she and sole bandmate/ husband Andreas Werliin have learned on tour |
 Dragging an Albertan collective around Europe and losing his voice in the process, Woodpigeon's Mark Hamilton tells Ragged Words what he has learned. |
 Traveling coast to coast through North America for the month of January, Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison tells Ragged Words of ten lessons learned. |