Everything Everything: TAS Interview

As lauded as eclectic, Manchester-based rockers Everything Everything are in Britain, the band still, mysteriously, remains under the radar in the States. In fact, Everything Everything don't even have an American label yet and, despite stops at 2010 festivals like SXSW, they've barely toured here. The Alternate Side caught up with frontman Jonathan Higgs — whose rapid-fire falsetto spurs on Everything Everything's UK hits like "Photoshop Handsome" and "Schoolin''" — and discussed the band's heady trajectory in their homeland, their second album and just when Americans might finally get to hear them here. Everything Everything play London's Relentless Freeze Festival tomorrow, October 29.

Villagers, Foals, Everything Everything, the xx Earn Ivor Novello Nods

Villagers' Conor O'Brien, Oxford rockers Foals, Manchester's gleefully verbose Everything Everything and Mercury Prize winners the xx are among the excellent nominees for the 2011 Ivor Novello Awards, the UK's most prestigious songwriting award.

SXSW 2010 Report: Broken Bells, Codeine Velvet Club, Chew Lips, The Morning Benders And More

The confluence of St. Patrick's Day and beginning of the SXSW music festival made things a little more wild than usual (forget about getting into any Irish pub to see any Irish band), but The Alternate Side managed to catch Spoon, Codeine Velvet Club, Broken Bells, Everything, Everything, The Morning Benders, Chew Lips, The Walkmen and more on Wednesday night.

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