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The room was dark, the atmosphere heavy with disappointment and defeat. The band had played their hearts out, but something had gone wrong. Their once-promising career had come to a screeching halt, and now they were left with nothing but shattered dreams and broken spirits. The lead singer sat slumped in a chair, his head
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Roger Daltrey has been asked if The Who are making music for a new LP. He’s said “what’s the point?” and, honestly, where’s the lie? There’s not many fizzing with excitement at the prospect of a new album from Daltrey and Townshend, is there? No harm like. He said: “What’s the point? What’s the point
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Take four of the Super Furry Animals and you get Das Koolies – a psychedelic techno adventure that shows the gang are still brimming with ideas even when the main project is resting. It’s pulsating and political and ultimately, it’s a load of fun. Whenever the SFA lads are involved in something, it’s always worth
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Huey Lewis is genuinely a cool guy. He’s like the ’80s John Sebastian or something. Great songs, approachable, the people’s champ! Well, his band features heavily in the lore of American Psycho, and even though the movie was released in 2000, he’s still not seen it. Neither have we. We’ve seen a lot of memes
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There’s going to be a new four-part series on terrestrial TV called ‘Britpop: The Music That Changed Britain’ so you can relive the long summers of your youth, or if you’re young, listen to your parents talk over the show by regaling you with stories about how mum threw up her ring down the side
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DJ and producer Aïsha Vertus – you’ll be knowing her as Gayance from now – has been making solid gold bops for a while, but you need to get on their new LP ‘Mascarade’ ASAP. If having your hair stand on end and your limbs flail around wildly is your thing, then you can skip
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Eddie Chacon is very much a love of the hip and record collector sorts – sexy dads in Yogi shoes and linen trousers – but the average listener might have needed the Charles & Eddie reference in the headline to hook them in. Just explaining ourselves there in a rather meta way. It’s 2023 and
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Listen, we unapologetically love Eurovision ’round these parts and if you’re at all sniffy about the annual, glorious celebration of pop music in its purest form, sort yourself out, you nerd. Anyway, enough of the negatives and onto a rather big positive! The UK haven’t really go a hang of entering great pop songs into
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It’s a bit meta, but it’s a great band name. Mediocre are releasing their debut EP ‘To Know You’re Screwed’ in April, and their new single ‘Pop Song Baby’ is a whole load of fun and we like stuffing it into our ears. They say: “We wanted to write a song that our teenage selves
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DJ Koze and Roisin Murphy have worked together before, and they’re at it again, which is great news for feet and ears everywhere. The new one is called ‘CooCool’ and it’s Murphy’s first single released on Ninja Tune. You can skip all the words if you like and just head to the video below. It’s
STOP HOARDING TUNES
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KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH + HOT CHIP? NICE
Composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has teamed up with the ever loveable Joe Goddard from Hot Chip and good things are happening. It is taking the form of a new EP called ‘Neptunes’ which will be out in November. As ever, we’ve got something for you to listen to so you’re not just sat there wondering…
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THE UNTOLD STORY OF SCOTS GIRL BANDS
Check this great sounding thing out – there’s a new documentary called ‘Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands’, which will look at some of the all-female groups that have come from Scotland over the last half a century. Of course, Scotland has had loads of great groups and many of them sorely…
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HEAVY SHOEGAZE FROM TRAUMA RAY
A lot of shoegaze can be a little deferential to the late ’80s/early ’90s sound, which is nice and all, but it is better when someone puts something of a new twist on it. And so to Texas, with the group Trauma Ray who have a new song out called ‘Spectre’ which switches from the…
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FREE RANGE RADIO SEPTEMBER 24
Hey! We’ve done our latest radio show and it features some great new music that you may or may not have heard on these very pages before. Almost certainly you haven’t heard all of it though. We think we’ve found the new Arthur Russell – how about that for a bold claim? Old stuff, new…
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