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DOMENIQUE DUMONT

Sometimes I listen to songs and just sort of gaze off into the  distance, wondering how they were made. Un Jour Avec Yusef is one of those songs. I’m almost certain that it was a lot more simple to...

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RUSANGANO FAMILY

Can you imagine how hard it is to convince a bunch of 19 year olds to jump up and down to songs they’ve never heard before, in a style they’ve never really considered feasible? In one way, I don’t...

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YOUTHLESS – Attention

  How wonderful is it to have Youthless back in our lives? Answer: very wonderful, and frankly, it’s all that they deserve. Youthless were ANBAD’s band of the year in 2010, after the duo won me over...

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STRAW BEAR – All You Need Is An Electric Guitar

  Just like the recently rejuvenated Youthless, Straw Bear are a band for whom a slight return is actually a doubling-down of their brilliant abilities, and confirmation of their rare talent. In many...

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RUSANGANO FAMILY – Heathrow

I’m fairly sure there are very few Irish, Togolese and Zimbabwean trios making music today, and while there’s a lot more to Rusangano Family than their nationalities, it sure is a fascinating starting...

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YOUTHLESS – This Glorious No Age

  ANBAD has always run the risk of veering into fan-club territory when it comes to  Youthless, the purveyors of kaleidoscopic outlier-pop who I first met in 2010 and have championed like an...

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HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE JANE FONDA AEROBIC VHS?

Can we talk about this band name for a second? Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS? is the best band name I have heard for aeons. Everyone I mention it to loves it. It’s marketing genius:...

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RIP LOUIS BARABBAS & THE THE BEDLAM SIX

Image © Steve Hall 2014 Today, long-standing Friends of ANBAD, Louis Barabbas and the Bedlam Six announced that they were done. The band is no more, save a couple of farewell gigs, which will be great,...

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PICTORIAL CANDI

Part of what makes Pictorial Candi’s music so enjoyable is that is sounds thin. Not in a reedy, weak way – thin in a lithe, wiggling, warm way, like a trickle of hot water from a copper tap. fOREVER...

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A New Band A Day 2008-2018

Welcome to ANBAD, which is celebrating ten years online in April 2018, and is now “resting.” (I’m still jabbering on about new bands like, oh, I dunno, The Chats, on Twitter.) However, ANBAD also has...

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