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“I’m not a citizen of America. Isn’t that crazy?” Those are the words of Nicki Minaj, to her fans in a livestream, some years ago. “I was born on a beautiful island called Trinidad and Tobago. But I’ve been in the States for many years. You would think that with the millions of dollars that
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If you’re looking for a Christmas present for the raver in your life, there’s a fabulous book out dedicated to the legendary Bugged Out! It’s a limited run, so don’t hang around – 3,000 copies and selling quickly. Tony Wilson (jesus, him again) notoriously said of Bugged Out!: “There was The Twisted Wheel in the
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Need a Christmas playlist that’s got a mix of good music with camp, silly stuff? One that’s cosy, has familiar songs, as well as ones that’ll be new to you? One that you can stick on while having a drink with friends or wrapping presents? Well, get stuck into this one, which features Rotary Connection,
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Alex Horne has a band called The Horne Section and of course, is the creator of Taskmaster, so his brain works a little differently. For charity, he’s singing live for a whole 24 hours doing a version of Ace’s ‘How Long’, which is really funny. Horne and his band, along with some guests, are doing
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Israel’s participation in Eurovision continues to create woes for the song contest organisers as countries boycott the summer event due to take place from May 12th at Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria. This of course, feels very much like a problem entirely of the making of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) themselves, given that they’ve stopped the likes of Russia
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You’ve heard ‘Afternoon Tea’ by The Kinks, right? You should’ve as it’s great. Obviously, since the band were stopped from entering the United States for a host of reasons, where the soft Yanks would have such hooligans in town while Woodstock was on, The Kinks leaned into their Englishness. The albums during that period were
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That’s it – we’ve basically completed 2025, so save a few surprise drops, all we have to do now is dig into Christmas music and familiar party songs on the work’s do and down the local. It’s good stuff, whether you celebrate god or not. You’ve read the round-up of songs, now it is time
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R&B is obviously a much more broad church than people give the genre credit for, but it almost seems unfair to brand Dawn Richard’s music that tag. And she’s at it again, being one of the most unique and interesting artists around right now. “The track is the kind of confidence that only I can
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There’s a lot of stuff knocking around passing itself off as psychedelic music these days with little more than a wibbly synth and a gentle fuzz guitar. That means, when something genuinely psychedelic crops up, you need to hold it close and give it water and attention. With that, we go to the magical sound
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And so it begins – like copyright law, legal action over sampling, and getting into the nooks and crannies of interpolation with ‘Blurred Lines’ – and now, it’s the turn of artificial intelligence – it was always going to happen. This is coming from the camp of Jorja Smith as her record label has said
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BUYING A SERIAL KILLER’S RECORD COLLECTION
A really lovely video from Noble Records about an unusual situation where a record shop ends up buying the record collection of a serial killer. There’s a whole bunch of info and no-one is making light of anything, and this is a sweet and mega interesting video that you should watch. Hit play and give…
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NEW MOGWAI, LADS
Hey! Lets do Mogwai at karaoke tonight! Arf. Only kidding – they’ve got a new song for you to listen to and it is taken from a new album which is coming out in January. The LP is called ‘The Bad Fire’, and it’ll include ‘God Gets You Back’ which you may have heard earlier…
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KING GIZ GO BAROQUE POP
One of the fun things about King Gizzard is that, every time they release something new, they’ve taken something of a left turn. They’re a totally restless group who have gone through prog, metal, psychedelic rock and whatever else has been on their internal record player. Well, this time around, they’ve got the orchestra out…
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WATCH PENTANGLE LIVE 1970
This is new to us, but in 1970 ITV aired a show called ‘Songs From Two Brewers’ – a smoky club show that features Pentangle at the peak of their powers. It’s a run of six songs that’ll really put you in the room and this is essential viewing.
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