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When you’re fully in the lore of standom, every utterance from your favourite artist is either an in-joke, or breadcrumbs to follow for some deeper meaning. And that’s where we’re at with the stratospherically successful Taylor Swift who, in terms of ticket sales and hit records, can basically do no wrong. However, what if you’re
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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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HELP SHAPE THE FUTuRE OF MUSIC
Instead of shrugging at the inevitability of everything being bad in the world of music, maybe we could all take a few minutes out of our day, to contribute to the future of it. If you want to have your say about the state – and future – of live music, then you’re invited to…
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FREE RANGE / FEB25
The new radio show of ours – Free Range – is out. Music from all over the globe as ever, with new music from Panda Bear, Hayley Williams’ granddad, Everything Is Recorded, Vulfmon, and loads more. There’s a tribute to dear Marianne Faithfull too, as well as the usual shenanigans with a dreadful AI co-host.…
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DAS KOOLIES, MAGNIFICO!
Das Koolies – the band that are Super Furry Animals without Gruff – have more acid fried music out! It’s a mixture of Furry psych and acid house (so both kinds of acid then!) and is called ‘Som Bom Magnifico’ and will feature on the new LP, ‘Pando’, which is out in May. Go. Press…
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JAMIE XX + ERYKAH BADU
Jamie XX has teamed up with Erykah Badu for a day-glo chugger that sounds like it’ll be a staple in the festival sets this summer. Jamie says: “A few years ago, I was playing at a Primavera afterparty in Barcelona with Erykah Badu. The decks stopped working and she just freestyled this incredible acapella performance,…
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