The Sophtware Slump

The Sophtware Slump

The romanticised American West of rattlesnakes and tumbleweeds has gone. In its place are farms with fax machines, campers with laptops, electricity pylons studding mountain ranges like topographical acupuncture. Even down rural roads that have...

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Grandaddy : Various: Below The Radio

Grandaddy : Various: Below The Radio

Blame the terrible march of ‘progress’, but thanks to the rise of the iPod, that long-standing staple of music-sharing culture, the mixtape, is fast tumbling into obsolescence. Trust Grandaddy, who throughout their career have done their best...

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Grandaddy : Sumday

Grandaddy : Sumday

Grandaddy 's last album, 2000's much-feted 'The Sophtware Slump', was based almost wholly around a concern that modern technological insanity was endangering the basic principle of human interaction. Clearly this turn-of-the-millennium angst...

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Grandaddy : London Bush Hall

Grandaddy : London Bush Hall

The beards are back in town - yes, after a three-year layoff, the heroically hirsute Grandaddy have chosen this invite-only shindig to launch their UK comeback. The anticipation of hearing material from the band's forthcoming 'Sumday' LP has...

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Belle & Sebastian/Grandaddy/ Macy Gray/Roni Size : Rio Free Jazz Festival

Belle & Sebastian/Grandaddy/ Macy Gray/Roni...

THURSDAY Rio's warm weather seems to have melted all of Belle & Sebastian's cool. The band, known for their distant looks and unattainable image, give a fantastic performance when closing the first night of the Free Jazz Festival in Rio....

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Grandaddy: Glasgow QM Union

Grandaddy: Glasgow QM Union

Many bands would opt for beer, or something stronger, as their rider, but for Grandaddy, it's foliage , and lots of it. Maybe this makes them feel at home - Jason Lytle and pals are clearly country (with a small 'c') boys at heart, and somewhere...

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Grandaddy : The Crystal Lake

Grandaddy : The Crystal Lake

Top sleeve features a CHiPS- style motorplod brazenly kidnapping a cute little baby polar bear to fuck, kill, fuck again and then eat, the dirty pig bastard. The track is the usual jolly amusing Grandaddy faux-folk fuckbuggery subverted by...

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Grandaddy

Grandaddy

They don't look up to much. But Elbow shabbily stumble across the equipment-laden stage and into our hearts in a matter of seconds. The hypnotic 'Any Day Now''s ebbing mantra is reason alone to believe this five-piece are going to be the surefire...

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New York Irving Plaza

New York Irving Plaza

On the day that a well-placed industry source informs NME in all seriousness that the average American music aficionado thinks that Mercury Rev are English (and therefore close to irrelevant), the prospect of witnessing Grandaddy's glorious...

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Hewlett's Daughter

Hewlett's Daughter

Grandaddy Hewlett's Daughter (V2) The second single from what everyone's calling The Greatest American Psychedelic Rock Record Since The Last Great American Psychedelic Rock Record, 'Hewlett's Daughter' is a pleasant...

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