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The legendary jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal has left us, confirmed by his wife. Maybe not a household name, but every inch a legend. His playing was warm but minimal, a spiritual link between the cool jazz and bop eras of the genre. A titan in jazz, and hugely influential on his peers and those that followed. The…
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We wrote a thing saying that there was trouble afoot with AI music, regarding the music industry. We figured there’d be some legal issues with the copying of valuable assets, but we figured it would take a while for the bizz to get their ducks in a row. However, less than 24 hours after we…
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As everyone has a laugh mucking around with AI and asking it daft questions, the comfortingly humourless record companies of the world are almost certainly readying their lawyers. Why? Well, if you can’t be arsed waiting for your fave band to get back together, you can get the robots to do it. First off –…
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There’s a sense that all the best new music coming out in 2023 is blessed with an ethereal sense of finally getting outside. Be it chugger daytime dancers, or dreamy psychedelic music, there’s a feeling of finally touching some grass after being stuck inside and nervous for too long. So with that, we go to…
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Sure, it might be lazy turning something of a full article out about a single track because it’s new, but seeing as everyone on social media has forgotten how to do tip-offs about the new music they like in favour of hoarding it to themselves so they can unveil it at the end of the…
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We’d sorta forgotten Jorja Smith existed honestly, but she’s been off Stateside doing bits, and sadly for her the excitement and promise of her intial releases were pretty much quashed by rumours of getting off with Drake and being the person Stormzy cheated on Maya Jama with. Whether these rumours were true are worth nothing…
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You can be mildly irritated by things. Not everything has to be full blown hot take, does it? And the fact is, while Harry Styles seems like a decent enough fella, he’s mildly irritating us. A couple of really good pop songs and all that, the press run for ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ just made us…
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One of the most influential people in British bass culture has sadly left the building. Jah Shaka is a magnificently important person when it comes to soundsystem culture in the UK, in part, paving the way for so much music that follow in his footsteps. Born in Jamaica, part of the post-Windrush wave, based in…
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Let’s face it – there’s not many better names on the front of a record than Ross From Friends. We can only think of DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ as one we like more. For those not initiated, Ross From Friends makes dance music and a lot of it absolutely slaps. And handily, there’s a…
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ANNA CALVI + IGGY POP
Iggy has lived a charmed life, and chosen so many interesting duets and collaborations. It is always worth pricking an ear to who he’s working with, and this time, it is Anna Calvi who is no slouch herself. “He’s disruptive, raw, and honest — a singular force,” Anna Calvi says of old Ig; “his presence…
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DJ SABRINA THE TEENAGE DJ MIX
DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ continues to be wildly prolific and equally enigmatic as each year rolls on, providing music that is somehow purer than the driven snow and a little bewildering and unsettling. If that ain’t the most perfect encapsulation of how weird things are at the moment, we don’t know what is. With…
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FREE RANGE / FEBRUARY 2026
The latest radio show we do is here. We do it every month and have listeners from all over the world, and when people tell us they’ve been listening, it keeps us going honestly. It is nice to put nice things into the world, and shine a light on records that might not get too…
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AURORA + CHEMICAL BROTHERS = TOMORA
Aurora and Tom Rowlands from the Chemical Brothers have teamed up as Tomora, which means new music and some small shows, which is very fun! Aurora has collaborated with the Chems before, but this is a brand new project. The new record is coming out set for release on April 17th and is called ‘COME CLOSER’. “This…
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