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“I wake up in the middle of the night thinking, ‘What if we hadn’t gone with him?’ I can’t see how it would have worked”: If Big Big Train hadn’t met Alberto Bravin, they wouldn’t have been on tour to discover the inspiration for Woodcut

Since the death of David Longdon, the band have been through massive changes which were all brought to bear on their first full-narrative concept album

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Add to playlist: the sharply observed electro-twee of the Femcels and the week’s best new tracks

Following in the footsteps of Heavenly and Tiger Trap the duo’s high-tempo electroclash-indie-pop deftly explores young womanhood in 2020s London

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Add to playlist: Storefront Church’s cinematic baroque pop and the week’s best new tracks

Californian singer-songwriter Lukas Frank is picking up rave reviews for his second album’s epic choruses and lush orchestrations

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The ear-rattling psychedelia of Brighton’s Oral Habit and the week’s best new tracks

Overpowering, explosive and intense, the trio’s contemporary form of psychedelia is rebooted for the troubled, disturbing climate of 2025

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Add to playlist: the spiky, playful free jazz of Laura Ann Singh and the week’s best new tracks

A rowdy debut departs from Singh’s American bolero work to revel in the chaos of atonal scrapes, cymbal splashes, wonky horns and raucous vocals

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“It’s a strange thing to look back on – they were such difficult, miserable times”: Big Big Train once hated 2002 album Bard. But the dark secret has become a rare gem

In the process of remastering it for a limited edition, friendships were rekindled, music was re-evaluated, and the band’s current line-up demonstrated what the quarter-century journey had been all about

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Add to playlist: underground pop star Neggy Gemmy and the week’s best new tracks

Aggressive, hedonistic and seductive – often in the span of the same song – the independent LA-based singer-songwriter spans shoegaze, vaporwave and capital-P pop

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“It could have gone either way… I figured that if this was going to be my last hurrah, we should really go for it and make something that would be astonishing to listen to”: How Big Big Train broke through with The Underfall Yard

Their sixth album, released in 2009, was their first with singer David Longdon and drummer Nick D'Virgilio – and it nearly broke the band

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Haunt The Woods, League Of Lights, Beardfish and more announced as support acts for Big Big Train tour

UK prog acts Stuckfish, Storm Deva and Peter Jones will also play one-off support slots with the band

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Guitarist Dave Foster steps down from Big Big Train

Foster will make a final appearance with Big Big Train at this year's Night Of The Prog Festival

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The best albums of 2024 so far

Billie Eilish’s third is a triumph, Shabaka goes woodwind and Yunchan Lim makes the most thrilling piano debut of the decade … here are our music team’s picks of the best LPs from the first half of the year

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Pop, drill and inhuman metalcore: new music to get excited about in 2024

Eight fresh acts to check out, from the astonishing flows of Brixton rapper Cristale to the southern rock of MJ Lenderman

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The 50 best albums of 2023 – 50 to 1

Lankum’s roaring reworking of Irish folk heads our pick of the year’s LPs, with unprecedented invention from Young Fathers and Caroline Polachek’s oblique angle on pop close behind

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Big Big Train sign new multi-album deal with InsideOut Music

UK prog rockers Big Big Train are expected to release a new album in early 2024

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"We had the opportunity to reimagine what we do to a certain degree." Big Big Train and the making of Common Ground

Big Big Train's thirteenth studio album Common Ground saw a new line-up but the same classy approach and prog rock sound

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Frost* and Falling Satellites: I hate the term 'neo prog'!

Five years after he called an indefinite hiatus on the band, Jem Godfrey and Frost* returned with their third studio album Falling Satellites

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First look: New leader, new mission for pro-Biden group

Build Back Together will focus on helping progressive groups tout president's record.

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SEC to check criteria for digital assets

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday insisted that digital assets are required to meet the criteria as notified by the regulator to be traded on any private operator's exchange.

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Bitkub CTO to appeal insider trading

The chief technology officer (CTO) of Bitkub, Thailand's largest cryptocurrency exchange, said he will appeal against the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) 8.53-million-baht fine for insider trading, and will remain in the position until the legal process is clarified.

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B8.5m fine for Bitkub coin insider trading

The Securities and Exchange Commission has fined an executive member of Bitkub Blockchain Technology Co (BBT) 8.53 million baht for insider trading.

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