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Every week we get to play two tracks for Tom Robinson on his excellent BBC 6 Music Introducing show… you can listen again here.   *The Van Allen Belt – Out To Lunch <p><a href=”http://thevanallenbelt.bandcamp.com/album/superpowerfragilis-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-caring-and-love-the-drug”>Superpowerfragilis: Or How I Learned To Stop Caring And Love The Drug by The Van Allen Belt</a></p>  Hailing from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this …

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   TOW met Boston guitarist and singer songwriter Marissa Nadler ahead of a show at London’s Bush Hall. Armed with guitars and a weighty transistor, she plays solo and after years of struggling with stage fright, she says: ‘It’s worth getting over it’. We talk about breaking out on her own with this eponymous album …

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Every week we get to play two tracks for Tom Robinson on his excellent BBC 6 Music Introducing show… you can listen again here.   Genius Collective – Future (Breaks) We really like this lot, a bunch of uber talented musicians fronted by one fine singer Kezia Johnson equals something funky, fresh and entirely NOT derivative …

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  As anarchic all-woman choir Gaggle prepare for their performance of The Brilliant and The Dark at London’s Royal Albert Hall on 27 September, TOW catches up with leader Deborah Coughlin about the who, what, when, where and why’s and it’s really not what you might think! The opera, which is about the history of …

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Every week we get to play two tracks for Tom Robinson on his excellent BBC 6 Music Introducing show… you can listen again here. Wild Flag – Glass Tambourine Wild Flag performs Glass Tambourine at The Rock Shop, Brooklyn from BlearyEyedBrooklyn.com on Vimeo.  Bloomin’ brilliant to have Sleater-Kinney guitarist Carrie Brownstein back in the saddle …

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Brigid Power-Ryce – The Waves Were Wild     Brigid Power-Ryce is a TOW success story… back in May 2009 we played Wild Grin for Tom on the show and he loved it, we loved it and then it all went silent. Until we got an email a few months back from Brigid with new songs, a …

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Every week we get to play two tracks for Tom Robinson on his excellent BBC 6 Music Introducing show… you can listen again here. The Cambodian Space Project – Broken Flowers Kak Channthy is the lead singer of Phnom Penh Band The Cambodian Space Project. She’s been called the Rock MIA in Asia, with which …

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