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We wrote a glowing review of Rebecca Black’s last album. In one of the finest comebacks in pop, she went from being a reviled meme while a young girl performing the rather wonky ‘Friday’ (which honestly, sounds quite charming in the current climate) to making some of the fiercest, funnest pop on the planet. While…
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Here’s our latest radio show, with music from Mexico, Mauritius, Poland, Algeria, Brazil, Germany, Cameroon, new bands, older ones… it’s great
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‘Try Me’ by Dej Loaf was one of the best underground hip hop smashes when it was released back in 2014, and other hits followed. However, Dej kinda vanished for a while, quietly slipping away and presumably recalibrating. It seemed that, for all intents and purposes, she was done with The Industry. Well, lately, she’s…
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The folk tradition is something that is always alive and well, and concerning The Unthanks, ever more so. Good news then, that they have a new double album coming out called ‘The Unthanks in Winter’. Appropriately you’ll be able to get hold of it and hear it on November 29th and there’s a song you…
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Amyl and the Sniffers have a new video out and there’s a lot of nudity in it. It’s the kind of video that, if you’re getting your knickers in a twist about it, then you’re the kind of uptight tool that could probably do with a bit of skinny dipping to sort yourself out. First,…
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Who doesn’t love a bit of library funk? Well, the ace folks at Be With are putting out Geoff Bastow’s (library legend) ‘Music To Varnish Owls By’, which honestly, is one of the finest album titles you’re likely to ever hear in your life. Thankfully, the music is every bit as good. This is one…
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If you’re a fan of cute indie pop with a twist, you’re in luck. This here, is a new song from Mei Semones and we’re hearing flickers of bossa nova and jazz mixed into her sound. Mei released an EP earlier in the year called ‘Kabutomushi EP’ which regrettably, passed us by. We’re off to…
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Look, we don’t know how this is new to us, but here’s a great video of Nirvana – pre Nevermind – playing in a Radio Shack and it’s adorable as hell. What else is left to say? Just watch the video already.
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Sometimes, someone does the work for us and all we have to do is simply point you in the direction of it. In this instance, it’s an interesting enough video (which has pretty protestant tastes, but we’ll let it slide) about the death of the double album. Now, there are 2xLPs in existence now, but…
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After saying that she wasn’t bothered about the prestige of a needless arena tour, Chrissie Hynde is brilliantly speaking her mind again because she doesn’t give a fuck. We say that as a compliment. Now, Hynde has got under the skins of some wet-wipes this week because she’s asked fans not to continually command the…
STOP HOARDING TUNES
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KNEECAP VS THE UK GOVERNMENT
This story is actually about Kneecap Vs Kemi Badenoch, but that’s not as fun as a headline. See, the government when Kemi was Secretary of State, illegally blocked some funding of Kneecap, and a court has ruled this to be the case. The Irish group and agitprops accused the government of trying to silence them,…
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SPACE POP FROM LOW HARNESS
It can be a bit boring likening a band to Stereolab and Broadcast, but we’re getting a nice echo of both those groups from the new track from Cornwall’s Low Harness. Now, we’ll add that they’ve very much got their own twist on the whole thing – it’s space pop, it’s a bit psychedelic, it’s…
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NEW MAC MILLER LP
Hip hop’s nicest boy, Mac Miller left us too young. However, good news for fans is that there’s more music for you with a posthumous release called ‘Balloonerism’, which people attending Camp Flog Gnaw got a glimpse of recently. Miller’s estate are making the whole thing official and the LP will be released in January.…
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LENNON LETTER TO CLAPTON TO FORM BAND
It can be fun thinking about alternate realities, where a one decision turned into another. In this instance, it’s John Lennon and Eric Clapton forming a band after The Beatles broke up. Jeez, that would have been one toxic set-up, right? Well, a draft copy of a letter written by Lennon in 1971 to Clapton…
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