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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Music Weekly: Lou Barlow and Girls

In this week's podcast we head for the States. Actually, we don't. The
Music Weekly private jet has been impounded. Instead, we made the States come to us. That's just how we roll.

First up we have Lou Barlow, the man who founded Dinosaur Jr, then Sebadoh, then Folk Implosion. Now recording as a solo artist, he talks to Rosie Swash about his old days, his new material and how music keeps his anger under control.

Girls are our second guests, the male double act who have the best rock'n'roll backstory since, er, Kings of Leon. They talk to Tim Jonze about the return of sunny surf-pop before swiftly moving on to address their seamy history.

Paul MacInnes is joined by Rebecca Nicholson and Michael Hann to review new music from Julian Casablancas, Boy of Girl, and Florence and the Machine (the xx remix). Some top new tunes and a track denounced as sounding like Julie Andrews. But which is which?

The Feature With No Name is back after a week's rest, with Rosie reminiscing about 2-Tone act, the Selecter.

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