Sometimes the oddest of mixtures can bring a band together. For The Afternoons, it was a mutual love for the prolific David Bowie and
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My admiration for Neil Hannon and his The Divine Comedy is no secret. Their most recent album, Victory for the Comic Muse, is one
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As many of you know by now, Syd Barrett died at the age of 60 on Friday. One of the founding members of Pink
