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J Hus is brilliant and he’s had a run of tracks that are up there with the absolute cream. Whether you’re calling it hip hop, Afroswing, Afrobeats, or whatever, he’s returned with a track called ‘It’s Crazy’, and it’s great to have him back. Now, he’s had a number of issues with violence and whatnot,…
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Hip hop and R&B has fallen into a small rut lately and a lot of the huge innovation we’ve seen in recent years is mildly lacking at the top end. Well, good news – there’s something new out and it doesn’t sound like it’s been dialled in! BLK ODYSSY has announced an album called ‘Diamonds…
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“Without Tina Turner we have no Beyonce. We have no Rihanna. We have no generation of Black women performers who transgressed all sorts of musical genres and without Tina Turner, we have no reclamation of Black woman’s sexuality in the context of rock and roll.” “Without Tina Turner, we have a new bereft in terms…
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You may know Juliana Hatfield as a solo artist making fun records, you may know her from her stints in The Lemonheads or Blake Babies or Some Girls. You may know her from her tributes to Olivia Newton John and The Police. Well, she’s pay homage again with a really fun cover of ‘Don’t Bring…
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Sampling changed the way people listened to music, where familiar (and often unfamiliar) works could be re-imagined, recycled, spliced, interpolated and chewed up and turned into something all by itself. For years, the musical brain demanded that modernity meant entirely new, but post post-modernism, swathes of people were giddy at the thought of grabbing things…
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Listen, getting way to obsessive about a new act is the best thing about music, right? You excitedly yell about them to just about anyone who’ll listen and the more disinterested they are, the more fervent you become. That’s what we’re like about DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ. Why? It’s the music mainly – dreamy,…
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You can try and be a clever so-and-so when writing about music, but sometimes you’ve just got to give a musician what they want. We reckon Will Oldham would want that headline we just wrote. Why? Well, in his Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy guise, he’s back with a new song called ‘Bananas’, and it heralds a…
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Miley Cyrus has spoken about her new LP to Vogue, and said something rather interesting about it. Basically, that she doesn’t want to tour. She said that “singing for hundreds of thousands of people isn’t really the thing that I love.” She added: “It’s been a minute. After the last [headline arena] show I did,…
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The third album from Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan (best band name in the world, incidentally) is afoot, so if you’re into glacial atmospherics, gorgeous fonts and retro-futurist ambient electronic music, you’re in luck! ‘Districts, Roads, Open Space’ is a soundtrack to the inside of your head while thinking about concrete and council hallways. Smarter people…
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Dot Allison, who heads will know from being in One Dove and generally being ace, has new music out. The song is called ‘Unchanged’ and is taken from forthcoming long-player ‘Consciousology’ which will be released on July 28th. The LP features Andy Bell – former Ride guy, Oasis man, not him from Erasure [delete as…
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BEST OF 2024
Arbitrary lists are no good, really. However, it is nice to praise musicians and the work they’ve done. They may never see the praise on a site as small as this one, but if we send good vibes out into the ether and at least some of you give them a listen, and maybe buy…
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TINY DESK + THUNDERCAT + YO GABBA GABBA
We could write a load of stuff about this, but there’s very little point when the contents of the video are so fun and wholesome that it speaks for itself. THUNDERCAT! YO GABBA GABBA! NPR TINY DESK! Press play immediately!
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STUPID MUSIC PREDICTIONS FOR 2025
Before we round up the stuff from 2024 that we thought was great, we’re going to have a little fun predicting what might happen next year in the world of music. Outside of music, you have to wonder if those stupid Marvel films are going to trudge on. They probably will. Of course, it’ll be…
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LOOP DIGGING WITH THE ALCHEMIST
Look, we’ve been feeling poorly which meant no posts for a few days. However, we just saw this Fly On The Wall vid where producer The Alchemist is snooping around for loops with a tonne of records and it’s real nerdy and fun to watch. It’s with DAMNDUST and they’re in Bahrain, and you’ll like…
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