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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  • GIA FORD WITH THE DRAMA

    We don’t know much about Gia Ford, but we heard this new song from her called ‘Earth Return’ and it’s really good. We think this might fall under ‘alt-pop’, but we’re not sure of some of these genres – not that they matter! We’re hearing some gloomy ace old French pop, a smidge of Lana…

  • KING PARI’S COOL FUNK

    We’ve been getting stuck into King Pari’s music recently and it’s really great. We hear sniffs of Minneapolis ’80s funk throughout their cuts, which usually means a bad facsimile of Prince’s sound, but resolutely not the case here. We featured their song ‘Eggface (I’m Not Screamin’ for Nothin’)’ on our recent radio show which you’ll…

  • INTIMATE DOVES SHOWS

    Doves went away for a little while, but now they’re back and have announced three intimate live dates following on from a brand new track earlier this week. There’s a new album coming too, and the whole thing is very heartwarming given the reasons for them going AWOL. The band say: “We were beyond heartbroken to…

  • ACE AMBIENT VINYL MIX

    Post Covid, ambient music really made a big return. For whatever reason that is, it is definitely a welcome one. With that, we dug a mix from DJ Raica, who has done a fabulous vinyl mix of ambient and cosmic music. She’s the head of Seattle’s iconic Further Records, ending up making beautiful, ambient sounds…

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