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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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She seemed to live a hundred lives at the same time, and honestly, it seems bizarre that us mere mortals were looking at the same sky she was. Marianne Faithfull – a complete one-off – has left us and we’re all the poorer for it. And where to start? For over six decades, she’s been…
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When dance music works best, it’s straddles the line between sleazy, wrecking your shoes, drunk cigs and gritty, and impossibly glamorous and shimmering with fantasy. It worked for disco, it worked for the pop-house boom in the early ’90s, and it’s worked for just about anything to shake your backside with on the weekend. Dance…
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They dress in what looks like a load of moss and bracken, and if we remember rightly, they’ve got a synth made out of a log. They also make furious garage-psych, and are a group not to be trifled with. They have a new song out to herald a new LP called ‘Hard Times Furious…
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We haven’t really listened to Viagra Boys, but they’re very popular amongx the punx. They’ve got their new LP out in April, but in the meantime, have a new single out called ‘Man of Meat’. The album will be launched on their own label and will be called ‘Viagr Aboys’, and this new track sounds…
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The way Chance the Rapper fell off is a sad thing, but he’s been steadily putting new bits out in a bid to reignite the fervour that accompanied ‘Acid Rap’ and ‘Colouring Book’. Whether or not it was unfair, it is always worth cupping your ear when Chance puts something out, so do exactly that…
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Self Esteem is back with a new single called ‘Focus is Power’, and it’s all very uplifting and self-helpy, and honestly, with the level of devoted fanbase she’s got, they’ll probably lap this up. She’s good people, so that’s nice. There’s a new LP due called ‘A Complicated Woman’ with very striking artwork (which you…
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The Pill don’t like mullets. They’re done. They’re cooked. Their new single is called ‘Money Mullet’ and is about this fact. They’re another chaotic punkish group from the Isle of Wight (there’s something afoot down there, clearly) and it reminds us of the kind of indie-punk that was a mainstay in the ’90s, causing chaos in…
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Marlon Williams is one our favourites, writing music that’s veered from dreamy, ’50 country to hip post-pop – he’s a real treasure that’s for sure, and has the voice of an angel. He’s announced a new LP, sung entirely in the Māori language, and the first track from it is a real beaut. The album…
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Mick Jenkins releases are always worth your time, and the good news is that there’s a new track out and it’ll prove exactly that! Chicago’s own has a new freestyle for you to get your chops around called ‘Wars & Rumors’, which could mean that we see a new LP later in the year. Maybe.…
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SNAIL MAIL IN A HOT AIR BALLOON
There’s a new Snail Mail LP coming and that means we get to listen to some music before the whole thing drops in March. And with that, let us listen to a new song that’s performed from a hot air balloon! Fun! Lindsey Jordan – that’s Snail Mail’s real name of course – says “‘My…
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BREAKFAST & BRAZILIAN MUSIC
DJ Rebeca Remp has a lovely video on YouTube which you should like – it’s basically a morning vibey mix of Brazilian music while they have some breakfast with some pals. In the mix, you’ll find loads of lovely stuff, including music from Gilberto Gil, Djavan, Céu, Juliana Linhares, João Gomes, Felipe Cordeiro, and loads…
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BAD BUNNY BROKE NO RULES (WHO MISBEHAVED?)
In 2004, Kid Rock appeared at the Super Bowl halftime show, and performed a song called ‘Bawitdaba’, where he rapped “all the crackheads, the critics, the cynics and all my heroes in the Methadone clinics, all you bastards at the IRS… for the shots of Jack and the caps of Meth.” That was the same…
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REVIEW / J COLE / THE FALL OFF
It’s easy to think you’ll never forgive J Cole for one of the worst lines in rap history, when he delivered “dick so big it’s like a foot is in yo mouth”, but there’s so much more to pick apart. If you like vague philosophical generalisation passed off as being some kind of heir to…
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