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This post is, effectively, a record lovers ASMR video. It’s also cute as hell. If you haven’t seen one before, this video details “the world’s smallest record player” aka The Mighty Tiny. They’re the stuff of legend with people who love old record players and enthusiasts of hip old gadgets. In this video, a lovely…
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This academic year, there’s been a bit of troubling news. In terms of taking A-Level music as a subject, we’ve seen a record low, with only 5,493 out of 800,000 pupils choosing it as an option. Since 2010, that’s a 45% drop across the UK. What is the cause of this? What needs to be…
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Jack Cooper’s Modern Nature are back with a new track from forthcoming LP ‘No Fixed Point In Space’ called ‘Cascade’ and features Julie Tippets. It’s a bruised, psychedelic-ish folk-jazzy post-rock number, which granted, is a lot of words, but if you’ve heard Modern Nature before, you’ll know it’s a kaleidoscope of influences and good shit.…
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We can’t lie to you – initially, we were meant to cover a lot more music from the past on these pages, revisiting lost classics and reappraising hidden treasures and all that. We accidentally became transfixed with new releases, which is kinda good seeing as new bands need the press while they’re still around. Anyway,…
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Selena Gomez has announced a return to music. Miley Cyrus has confirmed a new song. There’s new Guns N Roses music. However, the entire world is talking about the new single from Portable Radio. Portable Radio – perhaps the greatest band in the entire world right now, not that anyone’s noticed – have a new…
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Stephen Steinbrink, who we hadn’t heard of until we pressed play on the below video, has a cool new song out. Let’s tell you some stuff first though, so you get the illusion of value for money, even though we’re doing this for free. There’s going to be a new album called ‘Disappearing Coin’ and…
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There’s so many documentaries about musicians that focus on inevitable success or how lonely it is at the top, which is fine and all – but there’s more interesting stories than that. And so, to 1976 documentary about Bradford wannabes Punch. A Close Up North feature called Punch On The Road, it’s 30 minutes of…
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Tina Weymouth’s group – Talking Heads – are going to get back together. That’s bait, obviously. They’re not planning on stepping on stage to make music together BUT it might be a sign that, in their age, things might be mellowing between the members of the group. In fact, they’re regrouping for a Q&A with…
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Elvis’ comeback special in ’68 is a legendary moment in pop music. It marked a return to an artist’s roots for one, which wasn’t hugely heard of at the time and, furthermore, reminded everyone that Elvis could be insanely hot – especially when he appeared on screen in his Leather Daddy guise. Now, the TV…
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Have you heard of Fievel Is Glauque because you saw them supporting Stereolab? Have you not heard of them, but are interested in a band that supported Stereolab all the same? Well, here’s a new pair of songs from the group called ‘I’m Scanning Things I Can’t See’/’Dark Dancing’ and it’s super good and we…
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MORE GREEN-HOUSE IS A GREAT THING
We’ve written about Green-House and featured them on our radio show – fact is, in ambient circles, you won’t find many records better. With that, it’s wonderful to learn that there’s a new album due called ‘Hinterlands’. If you’re sold enough and just want the facts, it’ll be released on 20th March on Ghostly International,…
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KNEECAP / AND NOW WE MOVE ONTO THE LIARS
Kneecap aren’t mucking around and are back with a new single called ‘Liars Tale’, taking potshots at Kier Starmer in the process. The track is from forthcoming LP ‘FENIAN’, which will land on April 24th. In the track, you’ll hear: “Fuck Keir Starmer, Netanyahu’s bitch and genocide harmer” adding they’ve “never seen a cunt so boring.”…
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ARE WE LEAVING THE LANDFILL POST PUNK ERA?
Post Punk always had a dog in the fight. That was always kinda the point, right? From Gang Of Four’s leftie funk, to The Fall’s derelict shopping precincts and alcoholic bookwormery, to Siouxsie’s genuinely otherness, you always felt it was bands with some skin in the game. While punk could often feel like middle class tourists…
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71 YEARS YOUNG, LONER FOLK ICON ROBERT LESTER FOLSOM IS BACK!
Record collectors and music nerds have been excitedly sharing Robert Lester Folsom’s ‘April Suzanne’ with each other thanks to a reappraisal of a song that defines Loner Folk as a genre. He recorded his album ‘Music and Dreams’ in 1976, and in 2010, Mexican Summer reissued it and his stature grew further. Since then, there’s…
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