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Everyone ought to know by now that Bob Stanley is one of the finest custodians of popular music, being a member of the mighty St Etienne, but also, writer of countless wonderful words about it and putting out so many dynamite compilations – he really has become a national treasure for music geeks, and we’re…
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Festivals are pretty terrible things, but y’know, people enjoy them so it’s whatever. Kinda cool to watch live music on TV too, so we suppose it’s a net-plus. Anyway, the most lifestyley festival on the UK circuit is Glastonbury and they’ve confirmed some stuff and put a poster out. The main takeaway is that Guns…
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David Bowie – a man with regrettably few decent haircuts in such a long and industrious career – is looking like returning from the dead, and starring in a new show that’s like the ABBA Voyage one. Is it virtual reality? It’s not a hologram. You know what we mean. Either way, you’ve got to…
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Chaka Khan has taken the gloves off and thrown immense shade at Mariah Carey and Adele. Now, if you’re visiting from some awful stan account or the point of view of a MEGA FAN, then go away already. See, this is pop music. We’re hear to have fun. We’re hear to enjoy the cattiness. Someone…
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They’re a Japanese psychedelic band and based in Montreal and they’re called TEKE:TEKE and if that isn’t one of the most flatly factual openings to an article, we don’t know what is. Anyway, not to say we aren’t excited by this new song by them called ‘Garakuta’ – a fried, fuzz wig-out and is delightfully…
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Kara Jackson has been doing cool things and it’s hard to pin down exactly what that is in a catchy headline. She’s got a cinematic way with words and on a new track, a killer backdrop of Morricone/Ry Cooder dusty twang. It’s dead good. The new track (we’ll get to that in a minute) will feature…
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Listen, we shouldn’t give Alex Jones and people like him the time of day. However, sometimes, it’s really funny to talk about them, so we will. And REM’s Mike Mills (who, incidentally, sang REM’s best song ‘Near Wild Heaven’) is on one. Alex Jones has been in a lot of legal bother recently with Info…
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Drake – possibly pouting somewhere because when is he not slightly pursing his lips – is showing a little remorse for something. Very unlike him that. And ting. So what’s up with him now? Well, he’s said that he regrets mentioning the names of his exes in his music. Appearing on the premiere episode of…
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Natural Information Society have a new tune out if you’re in the mood for getting heavy with yourself and flipping your wig. If you’re not aware of them, they’ve been described as “ecstatic minimalism”, which basically means ‘kinda jazz’. They’re from Chicago and that’s always a good sign with these things. A new LP called ‘Since…
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Not every day is a news day. Maybe some will happen later? Who knows? Not us. Either way, that’s no excuse for us to not post something. There’s always a blank box that needs filling with some words and a thing, right? With that, we’ve been really enjoying this Argentinian jazz LP by Jorge Lopez…
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PSYCHEDELIC R&B FROM GREENTEA PENG
Greentea Peng has been cutting a groove for psychedelic R&B and now there’s a new single to listen to called ‘One Foot’. If you like R&B that’s left-of-centre, a smidge of jazz and singer songwriter music, you may well find a lot to love here. There’s also fuzz guitars in her back catalogue, so she’s…
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SPOTIFY WRAPPED SZN IS HERE
Spotify Wrapped 2024 is upon us and, obviously, spare a thought for those people who pushed all their chips into those dreadful puritans over Apple who are gamely looking at whatever Apple Music equivalent their is, while Apple music impose increasingly draconian rules about what is allowed on their marketplace, and thereby taking all vague…
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KNOCKED LOOSE FRIGHTEN AMERICA
We reckon a thousand hardcore bands have just been formed in the US. See, Knocked Loose performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and, as they were taking no prisoners, they played HARD. As such, a number of Americans – remember, for all the ways the US is cool, it is a country full of pearl clutching…
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2024 BEST OF? NOT YET
We have noticed that The Quietus, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, NPR and others have released their Best Albums Of 2024 lists already, and that is far too early. The fact that we’re in the window for SURPRISE DROP! albums, and there’s a strong rumour that Kendrick will have a follow up to ‘GNX’ before…
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