A brief glance over the cover art for Pure X’s recent sophomore album, Crawling Up the Stairs, reveals multiple parallel strands as to where the Texan three-piece are coming from this time around. While the group’s vocalist Nate Grace is understandably withdrawn about revealing its true intentions, describing …
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A few short weeks ago, we were lucky enough to be part of a tiny audience to see Miles Kane for Original Penguin’s Plugged In session. You can check out footage of the event (and play spot the Notion staffer) below:
We also caught up with the guitar-toting indie …
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Junip have more than enough credentials to fill the age-old cavernous atria of The Village Underground. The venue itself (once a Victorian warehouse) was filled to the rafters for the Swedish trio’s London gig, each punter eagerly waiting for the Scandinavian adventure to begin.
Elias Araya, Tobias Winterkorn and …
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We had the great honour and pleasure of talking to Nile Rodgers the other week. The music legend is playing a series of events in the UK this year, first among those being this weekend’s Love Save Sunday festival in Bristol.
Seb Law: Last year I saw you at Lovebox, …
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“I love Beck! I just don’t want to have to eat food with him all the time.”
The Flaming Lips‘ mercurial frontman, Wayne Coyne, was in a particularly insightful and philosophical state of mind when he caught up with Notion’s Alex Cull for a chat at his antique-adorned East …
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Tags: Arcade Fire, Beck, Beyonce, Do You Realize??, No Cars Go, Notion 063, She Don't Use Jelly, superbowl, The Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin, The Terror, Wake Up, Wayne Coyne, Win Butler
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Following up on our preview of the festival, Planet Notion is now pleased to announce Blissfields as the first UK boutique to sell out in 2013. Delightful organiser Paul Bliss took some time out from his busy schedule to tell us more about this year’s event, while also weighing in …
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“If I kill somebody and hide the body, listen to my music long enough and you’ll know where I hid it.”
The Flaming Lips‘ mercurial frontman, Wayne Coyne, was in a particularly insightful and philosophical state of mind when he caught up with Notion’s Alex Cull for a chat …
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“It doesn’t matter what you sing about or what you think about: at our base level, humans have the capacity to be the worst things ever.”
The Flaming Lips‘ mercurial frontman, Wayne Coyne, was in a particularly insightful and philosophical state of mind when he caught up with Notion’s …
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Tags: Embryonic, Notion 063, The Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin, The Terror, Try to Explain, Wayne Coyne, You Lust
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In the Valley Below are a two piece vocal group made up of Angela Gail and Jeffrey Jacob based in LA. Their songs are a heady mix of surrealist, swirling vocals, synthesizers and a deep sexy melancholy that infuses their musical outlook. Complicated? Certainly. But also intensely listen-able (you can …
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Tags: Great Escape, In the Valley Below, peter gabriel, Phil Collins, Pink Floyd, sxsw
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With second album ‘Nocturnes’, Little Boots takes us on a smooth journey to the end of the night. Featherlight house and faded glitter disco combine to form one of the surprise best records of the year: surprising because, after her label nightmares and compulsive baking, it might not have happened …
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Tags: interview, Issue 63, Little Boots, Michael Cragg, Nocturnes, Notion 063, notion 63
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