The Pop Corporation

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  • BEGIN TRANSMISSION

    What’s the deal here? A music blog, being launched in a time when blogging is absolutely dead, especially trying to cover music? What’s the point in that? Well, call it a labour of love. Call it foolhardiness. Call it what you want, but the chances of this making any money is basically nil, and thankfully,…

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  • PULP, THEY’RE BACK

    Tell your mums and dads that Pulp are back. They’ll be ready to put down their unsettling infatuation with Gazelles and David Byrne to one side, while they commit to their love of Jarvis Cocker, vintage shops, and plastic macs again! Of course, the appearance of Pulp is never a bad thing, and rather than…

  • THE MAKING OF FIVE LEAVES LEFT

    Seeing as, for the most part, Nick Drake didn’t have much in the way of compilations as to keep his entire back catalogue in rotation – in recent years, that’s changed with some odds and ends and previously unheard things seeing the light of day. And that’s continuing with something for the ardent Nick collectors…

  • TURNSTILE ON Es?

    Turnstile aren’t like other hard rock groups – you can hear the breadth of their influences on their records, as they clearly listen to more than just punk – there’s electronics, jazz, psychedelic indie, shoegaze and more in the mix, and they’re all the better for it. With that, we’re pretty convinced now that they like…

  • REVIEW / BARKER / STOCHASTIC DRIFT

    Writing about electronic music is not one of the easier things to do, especially when it is more abstract, and elegantly linear. With Barker’s ‘Stochastic Drift’, it’s worth it as an exercise though, as what we’ve been faced with is one of the finest electronic LPs we’ve listened to in ages. It’s part techno, part…

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