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		<title>Last Drags on the Decade&#8217;s Dog-end #4</title>
		<link>http://velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/last-drags-on-the-decades-dog-end-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patrick Wolf, &#8216;The Libertine&#8217; (2005)
Pretentions to militant outsiderdom were ten a penny in the past decade, but few walked the walk like Patrick Wolf. ‘The Libertine’ takes the millenium&#8217;s tendency towards no-more-heroes melodrama, fuses it with a sense of self-belief you could bend steel around, and forges it into an unstoppable flight of righteous prickly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com&blog=7072829&post=286&subd=velvetcoalmine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.</title>
		<link>http://velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/and-those-who-were-seen-dancing-were-called-insane-by-those-who-could-not-hear-the-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get the fuck in. Last night I listened to the Top 40 with breath so bated it recalled the near-asphyxiating sixteen weeks when &#8216;Everything I Do (I Do it for You)&#8217; held sugary sway. And, just for a very brief period, I listened to the 2009 UK Christmas Number One and I was happy enough [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com&blog=7072829&post=342&subd=velvetcoalmine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fuck You I Won&#8217;t Tidy My Bedroom: Rage Against the Machine versus The X-Factor</title>
		<link>http://velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/fuck-you-i-wont-tidy-my-bedroom-rage-against-the-machine-versus-the-x-factor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the planet&#8217;s on fire and our former Prime Minister appears to be an unabashed war criminal, but let&#8217;s turn our attention to what really matters, shall we? Namely, the  controversy currently raging over whether this year&#8217;s UK Christmas number one will be a stage-managed triumph of mass manipulation, or whether it&#8217;ll be the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com&blog=7072829&post=319&subd=velvetcoalmine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Last Drags on the Decade&#8217;s Dog-end #3</title>
		<link>http://velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/last-drags-on-the-decades-dog-end-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Missy Elliot, &#8216;Get Ur Freak On&#8217; (2001)
The best of several crossover cuts with which a bona fide goddess in hoop earrings and an inflatable binliner punctuated the first half of the decade, ‘Get Ur Freak On’ leads with a whiplash bhangra-bashing beat that doesn’t bother catching the ear but goes straight for the hips. Missy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com&blog=7072829&post=285&subd=velvetcoalmine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Last Drags on the Decade&#8217;s Dog-end #2</title>
		<link>http://velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/last-drags-on-the-decades-dog-end-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saul Williams, &#8216;Black Stacey&#8217; (2004)
In a just and rational world, the stunning and eminently quotable work of Saul Williams would have seen him hailed as the Messiah by now. ‘Black Stacey’ is part confessional memoir, part consciousness-raising rallying-cry, all righteous, fluid articulacy over flowing, portentous beats. Willliams&#8217; cool, composed and self-possessed narration, refreshing as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com&blog=7072829&post=283&subd=velvetcoalmine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Last Drags on the Decade&#8217;s Dog-end #1</title>
		<link>http://velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/last-drags-on-the-decades-dog-end-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Indelicates, &#8216;Sixteen&#8217; (2007)
Sussex contrarians the Indelicates have established themselves as one of the sharpest and shiniest pins to push into a popular culture gone once again smug, bloated and prickable. Their much-anticipated but little-hyped album American Demo suffered in places from a disappointing production that saw too many songs fall short of their vital [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com&blog=7072829&post=281&subd=velvetcoalmine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Folk adds life: Beautiful Star: Songs of Odetta</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first encounter with Odetta was as a jewel in the crown of Scorcese&#8217;s documentary on Dylan. This clip of her 1959 performance still packs an astonishing punch: she whacks out echoing notes on her guitar that drip like water off a deep-cave stalactite and she sings like she&#8217;s carving commandments in stone: 

Discovering the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com&blog=7072829&post=278&subd=velvetcoalmine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emo superior? Paramore, brand new eyes</title>
		<link>http://velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/paramore-brand-new-eyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who’d be Paramore’s Hayley Williams? Back since the days when puddles of critical drool were wont to collect at the feet of Debbie Harry, lone women in bands have never had it easy. If they’re not being derided for a supposed lack of musical ability, leading them to cling onto the coattails of their backing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com&blog=7072829&post=275&subd=velvetcoalmine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bring Me the Head of A.O.R.: Boh Runga, Right Here</title>
		<link>http://velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/bring-me-the-head-of-a-o-r-boh-runga-right-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right Here is New Zealand star Boh &#8217;sister of Bic&#8217; Runga&#8217;s US debut, and boy, does it depress. Scrupulously inoffensive, nod-along nonsequiteurs waft from every groove. Miss Runga is possessed of a decent set of pipes, and ably backed by collaborators including Whiskeytown&#8217;s Mike Daly and System of a Down&#8217;s Greg Laswell, but, technical aptitude [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com&blog=7072829&post=248&subd=velvetcoalmine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ray&#8217;s Hell: Shilpa Ray &amp; her Happy Hookers, A Fish Hook An Open Eye</title>
		<link>http://velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/rays-hell-shilpa-ray-and-her-happy-hookers-a-fish-hook-an-open-eye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many superheroes, by day Shilpa Ray leads a mild-mannered life as a Manhattan shopgirl. Onstage and on record, however, she stalks in sleazy blues-punk splendour, singing with the voice and presence of a pissed-off goddess. Having disbanded her previous garage-blues outfit, Beat the Devil, Ray&#8217;s new solo pursuit sees her backed by a coterie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com&blog=7072829&post=243&subd=velvetcoalmine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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