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Tag Archives: Mew
Powers Of Ten
Back in January, we at CMU launched a new feature in CMU Weekly called Powers Of Ten. Each week we ask a different music-related (or not, as you will see in the near-ish future) person to select ten songs they … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Playlist, Streaming audio
Tagged Arab Strap, Busdriver, Faith No More, Kelly Clarkson, Latyrx, MC 900 Ft Jesus, Mew, Mommy And Daddy, Plans & Apologies, Scot Walker
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Albums Of The Year 2009
It is the law that all music journalists must come up with at least one end-of-year list come December. And I do not want to go to journalist prison. Not after last time. So, here are the ten albums I … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Playlist, Streaming audio
Tagged 80kidz, Bat For Lashes, Converge, Grizzly Bear, Jeffrey Lewis, King Cannibal, Mew, Patrick Wolf, The Big Pink, Tyondai Braxton
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Apparatjik – Electric Eye
Featuring Mew’s Jonas Bjerre, Guy Berryman from Coldplay, A-ha’s Magne Furuholmen and songwriter/producer Martin Terefe, Apparatjik made their debut single, ‘Electric Eye’, available for free via their official website yesterday. Only the second track to emerge from the project, they … Continue reading
Posted in MP3, Music
Tagged A-ha, Apparatjik, Coldplay, Guy Berryman, Jonas Bjerre, Magne Furuholmen, Martin Terefe, Mew
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Mew
High ranking CMU favourites Mew, comprising frontman Jonas Bjerre, guitarist Bo Madsen, drummer Silas Graae, and bassist Johan Wohlert, formed in Denmark in 1994, putting out two albums via their own label, Evil Office, before signing to Sony in 2003 … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Bo Madsen, Evil Office, Johan Wohlert, Jonas Bjerre, Mew, Silas Graae, Sony Music
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Mew
It’s alright, everyone. Mew are back. It’s been four years since they released their last album ‘And The Glass Handed Kites’, time they have possibly spent mainly thinking up the title to their fifth album, an eight line stanza which … Continue reading
Twitter Picks – Achingly Beautiful
This week I found myself with five tracks available in my monthly allowance on eMusic and no idea what to download. This is something that happens a lot. Under pressure to choose something, I experience the same thing that generally … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Playlist, Streaming audio
Tagged Airiel, Alison Krauss, Andrew Bird, Beck, Bette Midler, Bonnie Raitt, Brian Eno, Bruce Springsteen, Catherine AD, Clem Snide, Coldplay, David Berkeley, Death Cab For Cutie, Des'Ree, Doves, Elbow, Elliott Smith, Fionn Regan, Great Lake Swimmers, Hot Chip, Interpol, Iron & Wine, Jacques Brel, Jenniferever, Joanna Newsom, Joni Mitchell, Joseph Arthur, King Creosote, M. Ward, M83, Manchester Orchestra, Maria Mena, Mew, Michel Polnareff, Nick Drake, Nine Black Alps, Oceansize, Pete Doherty, Radiohead, Regina Spektor, Richard Buckner, Sigur Ros, Smashing Pumpkins, Sufjan Stevens, The Beatles, The Cinematic Orchestra, The Cure, The Magnetic Fields, The Mountain Goats, The Postal Service, The Reindeer Section, Tunng, TV On The Radio, Union Station, Wolfman
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