ARTICLES BY THEYDON BOIS
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 DOCUMENTED MIND- WANDERING
The Wonderful World of Tickley FeatherTickley Feather is the nom de plume of a 29-year-old woman named Annie Sachs. She lives with her four-year-old son, Aiden, out in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When she has some time off from doing motherly stuff, she writes and sings these bewitching, primitive songs, a few of which surfaced online a year or so ago, and got released on the odd seven-inch. ...
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  I WAS A TEENAGE SUPERSTAR
But Robyn is OK NowRobyn Carlsson wrote her first songs aged 11 about her parents' divorce and being a girl and liking boys and stuff llke that. By the time she was 16 she was a Swedish pop sensation. Her 1997 smash hit "Show Me Love", produced by Max Martin, the songwriting...
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 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
Hallelujah. After 11 years of stalking the fringes, one of the country's leading independent labels, DC Recordings, has finally got round to releasing its first compilation. Neatly coinciding with the vogue for all things spaced-out and freaky, it's called Death Before Distemper and features all you...
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 STAND AND DELIVER
People Like You Like Man Like MeWe hate to say we told you so, but if you haven't seen Man Like Me perform somewhere by the end of the summer then you can't really call it a summer. So far this year, Man Like Me-mild-mannered 21-year-old Camden pin-up Johnny Langer-has played about...
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 MORE CRUNK PLEASE
Metronomy Remixes For Love and MoneyMetronomy is a guy called Joe Mount who, if we all hold hands and believe hard enough, could turn out to be Britain's answer to that chubby guy from the DFA and LCD Soundsystem, James Murphy. Not only has he "set indie dancefloors alight" with his stripped-down'n'pumped-up remixes for Franz Ferdinan...
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 BEAR NECESSITIES
TBA Prefers Horses and DogsGeorgian musician Tusia Beridze is 25 and from that country's capital city, Tbilisi. She recently moved to a place in the countryside near Cologne in Germany with her partner Thomas Brinkmann, the famous techno guy. On her new album as TBA, Annulé, Tusia has made music that sounds like the Cocteau T...
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 BOUND FOREVER
Anthony And The Johnsons Break FreeFruity New York warbler Antony has the craziest voice you'll ever hear. When he opens his mouth to sing, this freakishly beautiful force of nature gushes out of him, like he's possessed by Nina Simone and Diamanda Galas or he's being used as a conduit by a higher being. For a stocky 34-year-old whit...
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 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
My friend Greg is getting married and it's the funniest thing I've ever seen. I like going out with him and his future bride because I know that underneath all the hugs and kisses, he's scared shitless. He's happy to say hello to a new life with his fiancée, but he's also really, really scared to sa...
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 I HEART ME
Luke Eargoggle Loves EverythingWhen Vice first witnessed the Luke Eargoggle electro love explosion at a packed party in an Antwerp squat last summer, we thought we'd died and gone to some celestial rave where the girls can't stop smiling and everyone wears flowers in their hair. As Luke and his fellow Gothenburg pal Rutherford pe...
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 PERFUME PIRATES
Raping and Pillaging the Scent of Dog ShitWhen you splash on your expensive designer fragrance before you hit the town, does it make you feel irresistible? Invincible? A tiny bit better? You probably like to think that one squirt of scent transforms you into a supermodel with perfect feet and tiny pores....
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 SHATTERED DREAMS
Hey what happened? One minute Zoot Woman are primed to take over the world with their sharp tunes and fancy suits, the next they've vanished off the face of the planet.
Blame fucking Madonna. Two years ago, just as they released their amazing debut album Living In A Magazine, she offered ma...
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 MUSIC FOR GIRLS
Do you remember that perfect moment on holiday, when you lay on the deserted beach with your lover, both nicely high, and you watched the sun slowly rise, its golden orange glow dappling the sea? You remember thinking, after a while, "This is beautiful and everything, and I'm really happy to be here...
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 EXPLODING MILKSHAKES
The Acid's On CeephaxTrends in electronic music come and go, but the mercurial bubble and squelch of good old acid has remained a permanent fixture since day one. Ceephax Acid Crew's self-titled debut album, out this month, is the finest straight-up acid record we've heard in years. In the right hands, the sounds genera...
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