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Most years are remembered for one thing or one genre in particular. But in 2012, are we now living in a time where just about anything goes? If we are then it's certainly a lot more exciting th...
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Some strange things happened in 2011, from the Japanese tsunami, the English riots, protests all across the world and Noah & the Whale singing in an American accent. What with the world turning...
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Well, I don’t know about you, but Soundblab thinks 2010 was a fucking great year for music. Sure, once again there was no unifying banner for music mags to categorise and champion – chi...
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2009 was the year the world and his wife went pop, and the music press seemed obsessed with the sudden deluge of electro-poppers that emerged at the start of the year; many of them female, glamorou...
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You could call 2008 a post-Big Bang kind of year – lots of interesting musical elements roaming free, coalescing in chance and unexpected ways. It was a year of much genre hopping, and even i...
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You can remember 2007 one of two ways. On the one hand it was the year of new rave, a small London-born scene of day glo hipsters which was quickly picked up by the music press in late 2006 and som...
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By now the endless parade of garage rock/post-punk copyists were becoming a little tired. As some clever wags pointed out, this revival had lasted longer than either original scene managed. It woul...
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With the garage rock revival which had galvanized rock in the first part of the decade fading to little more than a series of repetitive gestures, and a loosely-connected group of London bands turn...
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It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. If you love guitar-driven pop (sometimes called ‘indie’ but we’re not going to make that mistake here) then you probably spent...
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With the glorious benefit of hindsight, 2003 was a pretty great year. In fact, as far as music goes, it might be the best we got in the 00s. The retro-fetishist fashion montage which NME (with only...
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After the very necessary short sharp shock delivered by The Strokes and The White Stripes the previous year, 2002 saw this whole new rock revolution business stretch its wings, diversify and prove ...
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Here we come to probably to most pivotal year for music in the 00s. The first year of the 21st century had felt like a complete washout, pop culture-wise. When it came to rock music, we were still ...
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For many music fans, 2000 is a year to forget. British rock was mired in mimsy, trad-rocking, say-nothing, Radio 2-friendly MOR, led by the mediocre likes of Travis and Starsailor. Meanwhile, the U...
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If there's one quality which unites the best music of 1999, it is a bloody-minded spirit of innovation. But you had to look hard to find it. This was the year when Travis ruled the airwaves and...
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Legend has it that 1998 is the year we (in the UK at least) got a bit weepy and paranoid, looking for music to make sense of the pre-millennial angst we were feeling. Following the self-congratulat...
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Ah, 1997 and the end of Britpop. Do you remember where you were when the dream died for you? And was that experience pleasant or painful? Did you take one listen to the supersonic 'Yes, we can!...
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Much of the mid-90s was somewhat dominated by a group of bands, connected only by the media-created super-scene known as Britpop. Yet with acts such as Oasis, Blur, Pulp and Supergrass absent from ...
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1995 will no doubt be remembered most for the Battle of Britpop. Fuelled by the NME and then further by the British tabloids, Blur went head-to-head against Oasis by releasing singles on the same d...
Read more
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Some strange things happened in 2011, from the Japanese tsunami, the English riots, protests all across the world and Noah & the Whale singing in an American accent. What with the world tur...
Read more
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|
Well, I don’t know about you, but Soundblab thinks 2010 was a fucking great year for music. Sure, once again there was no unifying banner for music mags to categorise and champion –...
Read more
|
|
|
2009 was the year the world and his wife went pop, and the music press seemed obsessed with the sudden deluge of electro-poppers that emerged at the start of the year; many of them female, glamorou...
Read more
|
|
|
You could call 2008 a post-Big Bang kind of year – lots of interesting musical elements roaming free, coalescing in chance and unexpected ways. It was a year of much genre hopping, and even i...
Read more
|
|
|
You can remember 2007 one of two ways. On the one hand it was the year of new rave, a small London-born scene of day glo hipsters which was quickly picked up by the music press in late 2006 and som...
Read more
|
|
|
By now the endless parade of garage rock/post-punk copyists were becoming a little tired. As some clever wags pointed out, this revival had lasted longer than either original scene managed. It woul...
Read more
|
|
|
With the garage rock revival which had galvanized rock in the first part of the decade fading to little more than a series of repetitive gestures, and a loosely-connected group of London bands turn...
Read more
|
|
|
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. If you love guitar-driven pop (sometimes called ‘indie’ but we’re not going to make that mistake here) then you probably spent...
Read more
|
|
|
With the glorious benefit of hindsight, 2003 was a pretty great year. In fact, as far as music goes, it might be the best we got in the 00s. The retro-fetishist fashion montage which NME (with only...
Read more
|
|
|
After the very necessary short sharp shock delivered by The Strokes and The White Stripes the previous year, 2002 saw this whole new rock revolution business stretch its wings, diversify and prove ...
Read more
|
|
|
Here we come to probably to most pivotal year for music in the 00s. The first year of the 21st century had felt like a complete washout, pop culture-wise. When it came to rock music, we were still ...
Read more
|
|
|
For many music fans, 2000 is a year to forget. British rock was mired in mimsy, trad-rocking, say-nothing, Radio 2-friendly MOR, led by the mediocre likes of Travis and Starsailor. Meanwhile, the U...
Read more
|
|
|
If there's one quality which unites the best music of 1999, it is a bloody-minded spirit of innovation. But you had to look hard to find it. This was the year when Travis ruled the airwaves and...
Read more
|
|
|
Legend has it that 1998 is the year we (in the UK at least) got a bit weepy and paranoid, looking for music to make sense of the pre-millennial angst we were feeling. Following the self-congratulat...
Read more
|
|
|
Ah, 1997 and the end of Britpop. Do you remember where you were when the dream died for you? And was that experience pleasant or painful? Did you take one listen to the supersonic 'Yes, we can!...
Read more
|
|
|
Much of the mid-90s was somewhat dominated by a group of bands, connected only by the media-created super-scene known as Britpop. Yet with acts such as Oasis, Blur, Pulp and Supergrass absent from ...
Read more
|
|
|
1995 will no doubt be remembered most for the Battle of Britpop. Fuelled by the NME and then further by the British tabloids, Blur went head-to-head against Oasis by releasing singles on the same d...
Read more
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