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Formed in 1980 by two childhood friends who promptly cherry-picked a couple of R&B vocalists to front them Was (Not Was) became the most unlikely of success stories. However in 1992 after a decade of well received albums featuring a host of guest performers like Iggy Pop, Leonard Cohen, Ozzy Osbourne, Mel Torme, and Frank Sinatra Jnr., David Was and Don Was drifted apart, due to the increasing demands of their successful solo careers in production and soundtrack work and nothing more was heard of the band – aside from compilation album Hello Dad... I'm in Jail– until some live shows in 2004 and now the brand new album Boo! We spoke to Don Was about life, the universe and everything...
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Youth Club
What do you get if you put Alex Turner (from Arctic Monkeys) and Miles Kane (from The Rascals) into a studio? Well, given that both men had been listening to early Scott Walker, Bowie and David Axelrod, what you get is The Age Of The Understatement (due out this month) by The Last Shadow Puppets, and you can get a taste of what's on offer by checking out the following acoustic versions recorded at Avatar Studios on 4th March in New York
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Duck And Cover
XX Teens follow their highly regarded pre-Christmas single ‘Darlin’ with the snappily titled ‘How To Reduce The Chances Of Being A Terror Victim’ which you can download right now. What really drew us to this cheery little ditty however (aside from it being bloody good), was the demented video accompaniment wherein the ‘whitewashed windows and doors leaned against walls’ brand of nuclear deterrent is mercilessly parodied
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Don't Be A Hero
We’re all a bit fond of the big nosed bard from Barking here at TM-Towers (he recently celebrated his fiftieth birthday and the 25th anniversay of his first solo gig) and we have been playing his new album Mr Love And Justice rather a lot of late (see the full review here), we’ve also got a bit of a treat for all you Billy Bragg fans as we have some footage of him doing an acoustic version of album opener ‘I Keep Faith’, Oh yes ...
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