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  • KATHLEEN HANNA: MEMOIR

    Like Bikini Kill? Well, you’re in for a treat if the headline didn’t already completely give it away – Kathleen Hanna is going to be releasing a new memoir called ‘Rebel Girl: My Lift As A Feminist Punk’. It’ll be looking at the ’90s punk movement, with an emphasis on the women within it (as…

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  • LIME GARDEN, NEPOTISM (BABY!)

    Lime Garden have a new track out that will thrill retro loving kids and their parents who want to go to gigs again with a ’90s inspired, noisy number and, it’s a wry affair as well, what with it being called ‘Nepotism (Baby)’, which leads us to believe it’s going to be popular indeed. The…

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  • JANE BIRKIN, REPOSE EN PAIX

    For the French to take an English person to heart, they have to be pretty special – and of course, they don’t come much more special than Jane Birkin, one of the world’s greatest muses. She died over the weekend, aged 76, forever France’s favourite petite Anglaise. Actor, singer, icon – Birkin was the complete…

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  • LO FI AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL MUSIC

    Online, there’s a lot of novel ways of listening to music and super interesting ideas for mixes scattered throughout YouTube, but this week, thanks to the ever wonderful PopBitch mailout, we were alerted to a particularly cool thing. Basically, you can listen to scratchy air traffic control radio backed with lo fi beats, and it…

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  • MORE NEWNESS FROM BONNIE PRINCE BILLY

    Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy is again, sharing new music, this time with ‘Crazy Blue Bells’ which is classic twisted-folk that we all love the artists also known as Will Oldham, for. “I believe that it is apparent that this piece of work is a celebration of gratitude and collective action,” says Oldham about his new vid…

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  • ALASKA REID’S IMMERSIVE MUSIC

    There’s a lot of talk around Alaska Reid at the moment and honestly, we’re playing catch-up as it seems there’s been hot talk about her for a while now. We don’t know everything, y’know? However, we listened to ‘Dogs & Girls’ by chance and it seems, along with the likes of Honey Gentry, there’s a…

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  • NONAME X JAY ELECTRONICA ON FIRST NEW TRACK

    Noname is getting heat on Twitter as usual, because Noname has got the temerity to care about things, so therefore any perceived minor indiscretion is blown up to all pointless proportion that you wonder where she gets the energy to anything at all. Thankfully, she does because she’s brilliant. And so, to things that matter…

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  • MIX // SUPER FUNK, JAZZ, GOSPEL VIA DREAM CHIMNEY

    If you’re not following Dream Chimney on the various socials, you really need to. They’re fine curators of balearic gems, jazz and funk, easy house and anything vibey to tap your Birkenstocks along to. Here’s their website and we suspect you can work out the rest. They’ve shared a mix from Dom Williams which we’ve…

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  • GENESIS OWUSU WITH PRINCELY SYNTH FUNK

    If you’ve been missing some future Prince-esque funk, then you’re in for a treat with the new one from Genesis Owusu! The new track is from the new and imminent LP ‘Struggler’ and if this is anything to go by, it’s going to be a total winner. It’s called ‘Tied Up’ and there’s not much…

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  • HAUNTED POP FROM HONEY GENTRY

    Hauntology is such a grimly hip phrase at the minute, but sometimes, it just fits so nicely when you’re listening to something that gives you the good willies. With Honey Gentry, it’s the sound of lilting country balladry, delivered via a ouija board. Not to say it’s menacing music, but rather, spectral and otherworldly and…

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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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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