Veteran Britpop band Turin Brakes stopped in NYC on their way to SXSW for a show at Mercury Lounge on Monday (3/10). The band opened with four songs from their new album, We Were Here, but made time ...

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Once upon a time, Turin Brakes released a record that even now, nearly a decade on, would – with a gentle update or two, perhaps – stand a good chance of riding a zeitgeist, bolstering the ranks of ...

On their sixth album, Turin Brakes carve out their own transatlantic folk sound, mixing American traditions — Laurel Canyon folk, Delta blues, heartland rock & roll — with the psychedelic sweep of ...

The mere mention of Turin Brakes sends music lovers of a certain age into paroxysms of nostalgia. Tracks like Summer Rain, Mind Over Money and Underdog frequently turn up on Noughties best of ...

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Great songwriting is about more than just melody, chord structures, incisive lyrics or tight rhythms; it's also about the many mysterious subtleties of vocal phrasing, and about the way the human ...

Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian met at primary school in London and so, one way or another, they have been play ing together for years. Turin Brakes, however, evolved directly out of soundtracks ...

Now that Coldplay and Travis have made a dent here in the states, we can certainly expect more Brit melancholia. With that in mind, meet Turin Brakes, who follows pretty much the same acoustic ...

As if the head-nodding wasn't enough, the arrival of a pair of knickers on stage proves just how un-rock'n'roll Turin Brakes truly are. Guitarist Gale Paridjanian spies the lingerie with surprise.