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Time to work out a sad dance routine for duets with strangers while a sped-up version of a song plays, because it’s all going off at TikTok. Now, seeing as social media has been equal parts brilliant and awful over the years, it’s difficult to know what to actually think about all this. Let’s work…
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Look, Taylor Swift is breathing such rarified air these days that any suggestion that she’s not going to be a commercial success is pretty much laughable. Any idea that she won’t have a hit is really not what we’re talking about here, so if you are a person who only works on the metric of…
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If we’re weary of two things in music currently, it’s post-punk shouty bollix, and whispery, breathy doe-eyed vocals. You might think this song falls in the latter bracket, but it has a bit more about it, so you should give it a whirl. Nisa’s ‘Dance Alone’ is out now, from the album out on Friday…
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It’s a baroque pop gem of a song is ‘Kiss From A Rose’ by Seal. What’s remarkable is that he wrote the song in 1987 and hung onto it until everything was just right to release it on… well… the Neverending Story III soundtrack. And then the Batman Forever soundtrack. Initially, Seal wasn’t too keen…
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We live in weird times, but sometimes, peculiar things happen and you have to embrace them. With artificiality becoming an increasing concern with the advent of AI and whatnot, what of nature itself? Well, someone’s had a bright idea to get nature its royalties. No, seriously. Many musicians include the sounds of nature in their…
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Do you like Of Montreal? Well, there’s a new song out called ‘Rude Girl on Rotation’ and is taken from the imminent new LP ‘Lady On The Cusp’ which you can grab on May 17th. Kevin Barnes says: “Rude Girl On Rotation” was inspired, in part, by my impending move from Athens GA to our…
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It only seems like yesterday that ‘Titanic Rising’ came out, but Weyes Blood marked the fifth birthday of it this week by releasing a brand new video for one of the finest songs on it. It’s a new visualiser for the endlessly gorgeous ‘Andromeda’ and has been directed by the artist herself alongside Ambar Navarro…
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Everyone likes Can. They’re ace aren’t they? Well, Mute are releasing some live albums of the great German group, and the latest is Can Live in Aston 1977, and that’s out in May. Recorded around the time of ‘Saw Delight’, this line-up is the one with Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli, Holger Czukay and…
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DJs have been looking online to promote their sets for a while now, and at each turn, there’s is always the sticky problem of getting paid. Of course, in clubs and bars, DJs sling out other people’s music and there’s a tacit understanding between all parties that effectively, it’s free promotion for the artist and…
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For those who have seen Grimes horror show of a DJ set at Coachella and have been hating on her for a while – enjoy this moment – you got what you wanted at long last. That may seem passive aggressive, but it isn’t. See, one of the unfortunate knock-on effects of the automation of…
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SOMEONE FAMOUS WATCHING MOTORHEAD, LOOK!
We were watching an old clip of Motorhead playing on Top of the Pops, and that’s a fun thing all by itself… but someone else sprang out at us While the assembled crowd seemed mildly bewildered at the sight of adrenaline filled rock n roll in the studio, to the right of the stage in…
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LISTEN TO REBECCA BLACK’S NEW ONE, NOW
We wrote a glowing review of Rebecca Black’s last album. In one of the finest comebacks in pop, she went from being a reviled meme while a young girl performing the rather wonky ‘Friday’ (which honestly, sounds quite charming in the current climate) to making some of the fiercest, funnest pop on the planet. While…
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FREE RANGE OCTOBER 2024
Here’s our latest radio show, with music from Mexico, Mauritius, Poland, Algeria, Brazil, Germany, Cameroon, new bands, older ones… it’s great
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DEJ LOAF AND THE 80S BOOGIE RAP
‘Try Me’ by Dej Loaf was one of the best underground hip hop smashes when it was released back in 2014, and other hits followed. However, Dej kinda vanished for a while, quietly slipping away and presumably recalibrating. It seemed that, for all intents and purposes, she was done with The Industry. Well, lately, she’s…
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