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Hailing from Brooklyn, TOLEDO (all caps) have been making fun, grotty bedroom pop for a bit now, and their new song is pretty cool, if you’re in the market for something pretty cool. The new song is called ‘Lindo Lindo’ and we’re really into the plasticine artwork, that you can see on the YouTube video…
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Hatebeak are a thrash metal band that have a parrot for their lead singer. Of course it randomly entered the ol’ brain putty.
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The High Llamas are ace and it’s lovely to have them back. They’ve got a new song called ‘Toriafan’, which is different enough from the old stuff to make it worth your while, but also containing that High Llamas magic of years past. Sean O’Hagan, who basically is the band, sez: “The song is about…
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Brazil has a rich heritage of musical inventiveness, giving the world the languid sophistication of Bossa Nova and the erupting joy of Samba. Of course, through the ‘60s and ‘70s, in the face of a brutal, military dictatorship, Brazilian intellectuals and the youth forged an artistic path through Cinema Novo and now famous Tropicalia music…
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Country music has always got a raw deal for being racist hick music, but that’s usually from the worst kind of person who hasn’t listened to a lick of country music in their life. Fact is, it’s a genre as enduring as any other, and as broad a church as you’ll find anywhere. That said,…
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Good news power pop fans! We have news that Dent May is releasing a new album called ‘What’s For Breakfast?’. That’s out in March and it should be a total winner based on his previous outings! Sugary sweet melodies, big pianos and choruses – we’ve loved his stuff and ‘Late Checkout’ is a massive favourite!…
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Most musicians fall off eventually, don’t they? And so, to Pharrell Williams who was once a prince amongst men, and then starred in a super dodgy Robin Thicke video, did some gigs that were literal fundraisers for the IDF, and now perhaps worst of all, collaborating with Mumford & Sons on a new song called…
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There’s no money in writing about music, and that seems to be a sad fact of the present day. In fact, there’s been no money in it for years, which is a shame as music criticism and opinion struggles to gain a foothold in a period where, honestly, most fans are waiting for marquee releases…
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Playboi Carti has a new song out called ‘EvilJ0rdan’, on the back of some pretty unsavoury stuff. He appeared with Kanye while he was wearing his Klan hood, on the back of an allegation that he’d choked and assaulted his pregnant girlfriend. The track is below and contains lyrics like “monkey nuts, hold me, baby”…
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A website asked, because of her all conquering popularity, if Taylor Swift is a genre all to herself now. No, of course she isn’t. Don’t be ridiculous.
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DO NOT LISTEN TO POP STARS
When you love a popstar, a rockstar, whoever, you hope that they feel the same way you feel about things. When you hear of a popstar you like, saying things contrary to your beliefs, it can tarnish the music. There’s separating the art from the artist, then there’s wanting to stop giving someone money because…
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AUTECHRE LIVE CUTS
Hugely influential and inventive, Autechre are one of electronica’s elder statesmen (whether they like it or not). From goading government bills over ‘repetitive beats’ and forward thinking music for decades, it is always worth keeping an eye on what they’re doing. With that, they’ve just released 12 new live sets, and focusing on their fabulous…
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ALBINI’S LAST PRODUCTION WITH FACS
Steve Albini is no longer with us, but his productions remain. And the last record he was working on was one with FACS, and you can hear some of the fruits of that labour right now. It’s a skuzzy, angular thing called ‘Wish Defense’ and there’ll be a new album of the same name out…
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QUINCY JONES, CHRIST WHAT A LIFE
What is there to say about Quincy Jones that everyone hasn’t already said since his passing this weekend? What an extraordinary human and what a life! He produced ‘Thriller’, which is enough for any other mere mortal, but he worked for 75 glorious years, including 28 Grammies, collaborations with Sinatra, Ray Charles, helped shape ‘We…
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