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• Nostalgia Tripping with The Brit Box by I Rock Cleveland

  "At the height of Brit Pop, as Oasis was drawing hundreds of thousands out to Knebworth, no one played Brit Pop. Like the dreaded Emo tag, bands detested the label. To be emo in today's market means you're a young band with the traditional guitar, bass, drums, and maybe keyboard..."

• Merry Christmas! Part 3 by Keep Hope Inside

  "Part 3 of a three-part series, pointing you in the direction of some special gifts donated by artists this Christmas. All in all, hopefully a bit more satisfying than The Matrix Revolutions.MC LarsMy favourite artist at Truck festival 2004, MC Lars is a pretty funny bloke. Well, it's not like..."

• The Brit Box: Nonexistent Disc 5 by Sound Bites

  "Rhino's cool "alternative" box set of 2007 is The Brit Box which I wrote about back in August. It's in stores this week. As I said then, it does a pretty admirable job of documenting the cool music coming out of the UK between 1985 - 2000,  but it's really..."

• pushing-agenda-forward-lets-spend... by polaroid > un blog alla radio >

  "Pushing the agenda forwardLet's spend the weekend on the floor- Questa sera a polaroid alla radio andrà in onda un assortimento che più curioso non potrebbe essere (oltre a quello dei conduttori).Avremo infatti ospite al telefono la band bresciana dei Don Turbolento e live in studio il cantautore parmense Dente.Con..."

• Live Forever & the Britpop explosion ("I've been on the shelf too long / now it's time to hear my song") by I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS

  "Britain in the mid-90s was a chaotic, creative, music-centric place to be. As Thatcher's tenure as PM ended and a fresh start began under Tony Blair and the New Labour party, there was a simultaneous crackle and thrum of musical vibrancy that is explored in the 2003 documentary Live Forever..."