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Quite why Tchotchke aren’t fantastically well-known is beyond us. Sure, they’re not obsessively modern in their sound, but there’s other bands who look back to the ’60s and ’70s who have a platform that the greatest current girl group on the planet should also have. With each release, we’ve seen Anastasia Sanchez, Eva Chambers and
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David Byrne is one of those artists that, to his legions of devotees, defies criticism. There’s a few artists like that, who when mentioned, people get that faraway look in their eyes and simply won’t hear anything said against them. It must be a nice place to be, if you’re David Byrne (although you worry
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Apologies if you still think ‘hardcore’ means breakbeat electronic music – the punks have got a hold of it now. No matter though, because the hardcore scene is thriving at the minute with loads of cool groups doing the rounds. And so to Buffalo and a group called Spaced who are new to us, who
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Andrew Weatherall’s passing left a hole in clubland that we’re still trying to fill. While there may not be another, we’ll always have the music. And now, Weatherall’s first official posthumous mix. This is apparently the only back-to-back set DJ Harvey ever agreed to, and we get the pair playing uplifting, cosmic chuggers for your
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Fans of Bruce Springsteen have been having kittens about the news of an expanded ‘Nebraska’ and now the word is out about what that actually means, and we’ve got the full tracklisting and all that good stuff. This Autumn, there’ll be a five-disc box set with loads of stuff that no-one’s heard before and more.
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When a singer who works in the lane of R&B and soul, and they use guitars, wonky production and skittish beats, it’s easy to be super lazy and liken them to Prince and Outkast. While Dijon doesn’t explicitly sound like either, we can’t help but get reminders of them when we listen to his music.
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We previously shared some music from Cate Le Bon’s new album – out later this month – called ‘Michelangelo Dying’, and what we’ve heard from it thus far, it’s going to be one of the better LPs released this year. With that, here’s a brand new track from it called ‘About Time’, which underlines our
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Princess Nokia is putting a new album out in October called ‘Girls’, which is good news for fans of hers! Of course, that means we’re treated to a teaser from it to whet our appetite in the meantime. She says of the new song: “‘Blue Velvet’ is both delicate and sinister. It supports women’s rights
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There’s been some palaver about Will Smith using AI to make a show of his look more fun than it apparently was, and while the whole thing is magnificently unimportant in the scheme of things, it did seem a bit fishy. Not to worry though, because while Smith hasn’t spoken about these accusations, he has
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Ever heard of the Mike Stuart Span? Well, if not, you’re not alone. They were a plucky group in the 60s trying to make it big. While stardom didn’t reach them, the BBC were on hand to see what it was like for a young band champing at the bit. It’s a lovely look at
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CHANCE THE RAPPER IS BACK
It’s been a funny couple of years for Chance the Rapper and while his last outing was not our favourite work from him, the backlash he received seemed somewhat disproportionate. Maybe everyone set their expectations far too high after the wildly credible ‘Acid Rap’ dropped, and ‘Coloring Book’ went wildly successful. A couple of weeks…
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MUSIC, GAZA, PROTEST
The situation in Gaza has bled into the world of music, with some inevitability. Fresh off the back of ringing boos and counter-protests at the Eurovision Song Contest, now we see over 100 acts pulling out of the Great Escape festival. The show was to start today in Brighton, showing off up-and-coming artists. However, many…
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THE GREAT SUPER FURRY INTRO ON A HOT CHOCOLATE RECORD
Not everything has to be informative or in-depth journalism. Sometimes, you can just notice something and simply pass it on – which is exactly what we’re doing here. Ever noticed that the intro section of Hot Chocolate’s ‘You Win Again’ sounds like a brilliant intro to a Super Furry Animals track? We’d like to hear…
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CHILDISH GAMBINO NEW 70S JAM
Childish Gambino is everyone’s favourite renaissance man, so it won’t surprise you that he’s back with new music and it’s predictably great. This time, ‘The Violence’ starts off as something that made us say “is this balearic?!” before making way into something a little more psychedelic soul, or maybe Bill Withers-y. Either way, all the…
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