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Whether you’re into ace music, football, or dynamite fonts, you’ve probably come across the work of Stanley Chow on your travels. Famed for his love of the beautiful game, Manchester United, and music, Stan’s immediately recognisable style has graced the pages of the New Yorker, alongside fanzines and more. His involvement in the music scene…
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You’ve probably seen that Kneecap have found themselves on the wrong end of a tongue lashing from Sharon Osborne, what with their opposition to what’s happening currently with the people of Palestine. If we’re all meant to be free speech absolutists in 2025, then if someone screening ‘FREE PALESTINE’ on a big screen hurts your…
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We’re ALWAYS up for music that klings and klangs, goes boink and rattles in an industrial way. There’s soul in those machines, y’know? And so, to Annie-Claude Deschênes’ new one which ticks all kinds of boxes. It’s techno, for sure, but it’s not the usual whoomph whoomph stuff (which we admittedly like) as it’s got…
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People only tend to mention backpack hip hop as a derogatory thing, but surely in 2025, we’re beyond that? The hip hop for the club, there’s hip hop for the house etc, and we’re getting a fun backpackiness from the new one from rising talent, redveil. This new track is called ‘Square One’, and it’s…
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Yaya Bey is referred to as Neo Soul, which effectively seems to be a catch-all phrase for any R&B singer that has a vaguely retro bent to their music. Whether it is true or not, Yaya Bey has some new tunes out and we really like ‘Dream Girl’. There’s another called ‘Wake Up B*tch’ too,…
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The Liberal Democrats are, of a fashion, vying to be the sensible voice of the youth. However, we know by now that we shouldn’t ever give any political party a blanket pass for having the piss taken out of them. And so, to their apparent want to fine kids ‘up to’ £1,000 for listening to…
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10 Things I Hate About You is a fine teen movie and the popularity of it has only grown in recent years, thanks to a mildly angsty Gen X current that runs through it. Local bylaws state that you have to point out it is based on Shakespeare too. Well, looks like its going to…
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Not quite grunge, not quite ’90s indie, not quite pop, Singapore’s Subsonic Eye have a new single out which scratches a number of itches, across a number of different independent music genres. That’s a good thing, obviously. They’ve announced a new LP – called ‘Singapore Dreaming’ – which you’ll be able to hear on June…
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Music collective Mourning [A] BLKstar have a new song out that’s a wonderful marriage of jazz and soul, but all forward-looking rather than relying wholly on the past, and it is definitely worth your ears and time. There’s a new LP due called ‘Flowers For The Living’ and that’ll be available in May. The new…
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Our problem with a lot of modern period post-punk and New Wave music is that it is so boring and conservative. Not tuneful enough, nor weird enough, it’s usually dour groups who are more well-read than they are songwriters. We get it – you’ve got a problem with too many cans during the week and…
STOP HOARDING TUNES
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PSB FINE CHINA ANYONE?
The wonderful Pet Shop Boys have announced a new set of fine bone china, because why the hell not? They’re the Pet Shop Boys – they can do whatever they want. This set celebrates their first release and is part of the ‘Pet Shop Boys Since 1984’ range and was designed by Farrow, along with the…
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SOMEONE TELL GWEN STEFANI WHAT YACHT ROCK IS
Yacht Rock is, whether you like it or not, a very specific thing with a specific set of parameters. There’s a jazziness too it, a smooth groove, usually flashy musicians trying to keep it tasteful, and there’s a whole list of songs which help you learn what these songs are from the people who coined…
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BUYING A SERIAL KILLER’S RECORD COLLECTION
A really lovely video from Noble Records about an unusual situation where a record shop ends up buying the record collection of a serial killer. There’s a whole bunch of info and no-one is making light of anything, and this is a sweet and mega interesting video that you should watch. Hit play and give…
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NEW MOGWAI, LADS
Hey! Lets do Mogwai at karaoke tonight! Arf. Only kidding – they’ve got a new song for you to listen to and it is taken from a new album which is coming out in January. The LP is called ‘The Bad Fire’, and it’ll include ‘God Gets You Back’ which you may have heard earlier…
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