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Video Premiere: Neil Halstead - "Home For The Season"

By Alex Skidmore at 10:00 AM on November 17, 2011

Tis the season for holiday albums. Brushfire Records released This Warm December, A Brushfire Holiday Vol. 2 on Nov. 15th. It features artists such as Rogue Wave, Matt Costa, Jack Johnson, G. Love and many more with versions of holiday classics as well as a few originals. read more

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Live at Paste: Neil Halstead

By Culture Clubbers at 7:00 AM on January 23, 2009

Click above to watch a live performance of "Oh! Mighty Engine" from Neil Halstead's album Oh! Mighty Engine, out now on Brushfire Records. Related links: Neil Halstead on Myspace Review: Neil Halstead -Oh! Mighty Engine... read more

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Neil Halstead - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's - 8/8/08

By Austin L. Ray at 3:10 PM on September 18, 2008

Photos taken at Johnny Brenda's by Doug Seymour... read more

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Neil Halstead: Oh! Mighty Engine

By Kristina Feliciano at 11:07 AM on August 28, 2008

Slowdive founder burns slowlyAfter the quiet triumph of his first solo outing, 2002’s Sleeping On Roads, Neil Halstead apparently decided there was no need to fix what wasn’t broken. Smart guy. Oh! Mighty Engine returns to the land of sublime bedroom pop, all acoustic-based and velvet-vocaled, sincere but never strained, pretty and bittersweet. (See, in particular, “Queen Bee” and the title track, which are beautiful but disheveled—like a really attractive person with bedhead.) As a founder of 1990s shoegazers Slowdive, Halstead was a master of room-filling, soul-searching, eyeliner-smeared sound. Then the bearded Brit threw open the door to the sunlight... read more

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