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If you thought the response from White America was bad after Kendrick’s Super Bowl halftime show, just wait until Bad Bunny does his set at the next one in February. Of course, Bad Bunny announced a world tour, and featured no shows in mainland USA, and has said that – rightly – he’d fear for…
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Chet Baker’s gentle jazz has endured all these years because it still sounds so cool, so smart, and a melancholy salve in chaotic times. With that, we’d like to share this clip from 1964, where Baker and his band offer a superb reading of ‘Time After Time’. You’ll notice Chet has a prominent tooth missing.…
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Magdalena Bay’s ‘Imaginal Disk’ taught po-faced indie kids that pop music was cool again, and mercifully, the album was an absolute treat for anyone who listened to it, existing pop fan or otherwise. Great news then, that the duo are back with a brace of new songs. The first is called ‘Second Sleep’, the second…
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Forget the comebacks of Blur, Suede, Oasis et al – the greatest rock group of the ’90s (and beyond) are coming back – it’s SUPER FURRY ANIMAL TIME! There’s going to be gigs and fizzy solos, head-melting synths and everything you love about SFA! There’ll also be a reissue of Love Kraft too, which is…
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Hannah Jadagu’s a new name to us, but is signed to Sub Pop, which is usually a sign of quality enough to be checking out. Hannah has a new LP coming out soon called ‘Describe’, and you can hear a great new song from it called ‘Gimme Time’, which is an ear-wormy, synthy, soulful thing…
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It’s a bad look when you’re recognising Palestine as a state one minute, but overseeing a system of law that’s trying someone who has been a vocal champion of that same place and the people within it. That’s what’s going down with the UK government and various politicians, who are looking at the terror charges…
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House music is, for the most part, all about the hypnotic swing and MDMA enhancing repetitiveness, maybe with a little vocal hook to keep you singing along. Sometimes however, when House is given the due care and attention it deserves, it can sound like the most expensive thing in the world, with luxurious, modern production,…
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The trap sound has, regrettably, started sounding a bit old hat, leaving young rappers looking elsewhere for inspo. And so, to Redveil, who has a new one out which is a swirly, classic soul sampling track which reminds us of cool Stones Throw stuff from the early ’00s and an echo of Dilla too. A…
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You may or may not have heard of Infinite Coles, but you’ll have heard of their dad. Coles is the child of the Wu Tang’s Ghostface Killah, and they’ve dropped new music which address the relationship between the two. Coles is gay and it seems there’s tension between the two, and mercifully for us music…
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Madonna is returning to dance music, as it has been announced that she’s returning to Warner Records, and notably, coming at us with ‘Confessions Of A Dance Floor Part 2’, which should be out in 2026. Madonna and dance music is a marriage made in heaven, and if she’s going to help bring back French house…
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LIVE IN 75 CAN ALBUM ON THE WAY
Mute have announced the details of a new live album from the mighty Can – ‘Can Live in Arles 1975’ – and you’ll be able to hear it and buy on 25th September. Recorded the summer at the Roman Amphitheatre, Théâtre Antique d’Arles, the recording features the core gang of Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael…
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DAINE’S POP THAT CELEBRATES FAILURE
We think Daine is a pop singer – who really knows what anything is anymore, as genres are blurred to the point of mush these days – but we think that Daine sounds like she’s making pop music, and we’re always in the market for a fun new pop song. ‘PDQ’ is a dancy, good-time…
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SO WHAT DO WE MAKE OF THE CHARLI XCX GUITAR POP PERIOD THEN?
We’ve heard that the ‘dancefloor is dead’ and Charli XCX is kinda going in a rock direction, but isn’t, but then keeps releasing pop songs with a rock edge, and the whole thing is mildly confusing, but the Stans seem happy enough in the feeling that they get it before anyone else does. Brat Summer…
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CARLY RAE’S PSYCHEDELIC ’70S POP?
Carly Rae Jepsen taught the hipsters how to fall in love with pop music, and she’s coming back with a double album that sounds like she might have them on a fish hook all over again, splitting the LP between two very hip sounding things. The new album is called ‘Day And Night’, and it’ll…
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