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  • THE WELCOME RETURN OF 6LACK

    6LACK’s ‘East Atlanta Love Letter’ is one of R&B’s modern masterpieces, and fans will have been playing his back catalogue to death while waiting for a new album. Good news is that there’s a new one due on May 22nd, called ‘Love Is The New Gangsta’. More importantly for you now, is the new track…

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  • ARE STEREO CONSOLES COMING BACK?

    If you’re old and remember them, or are young and like looking at vintage gear, you’ll know all about those gorgeous consoles that featured in homes. Consoles, for the uninitiated, were beautiful pieces of furniture that housed a record player, speakers, an amp, and sometimes other things like radios and storage. They were the entertainment…

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  • GOVT U-TURN ON A.I., KINDA

    Honestly, it is pretty depressing to keep writing about artificial intelligence. It’s like some kind of black mold that no-one can ever fully scrub away. Of course, there’s something vaguely exciting about the possibilities of future technologies, but this one isn’t cutting it. Away from the literal fascism-supporting elements of Big Tech pushing this on…

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  • ELIJAH WOOD’S LORD OF THE RINGS RAVE

    We’d kinda like to take the piss out of Elijah Wood, especially now he’s revealed he’s doing a Lord of the Rings rave. However, he seems like a genuinely nice bloke with nice interests, so we’re not going to be mocking him here. He’s launched an indie record label, released some nice looking headphones made…

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  • GLADIE’S GRUNGE CHIC

    Gladie’s new album is coming out at the end of the week and goes by the name of ‘No Need To Be Lonely’. You can have a sneak peek of what it sounds like with new song ‘I Want That For You’. It is kinda grungy, ’90s, noisy realness, if you’ve been yearning for such sounds…

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  • THE GREATEST RECORD COLLECTION IN THE WORLD?

    Geoffrey Reiss has a massive, massive record collection. Some say it’s the best record collection in the world, but who could ever call a thing like that, right? It’s certainly an impressive beast, and Reiss is interviewed in a fun video that captures his huge enthusiasm for the records he has, which is much more…

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  • MICHAEL STIPE, SOLO

    R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe has been relatively quiet since he and his band decided to knock it on the head. Instead of a (lucrative) reunion, Stipe is planning to release his debut solo album soon. He told The Sunday Times newspaper, who we assume you don’t have a subscription for: “I’m working on a solo…

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  • NEW CHEEKY BANGER FROM HONEY DIJON

    Sometimes, what you really need is an uplifting, catchy, poppy House track to lift your spirits and your mood. One of the finest purveyors of this kind of thing is the legendary Honey Dijon, who has donned her producer hat with a gem of a new track. She’s releasing a new album, aptly called ‘Nightlife’,…

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  • MIXCLOUD ROUND-UP MARCH

    Here’s the first in what promises to be a sporadic round-up of some of the best shows that have cropped up on Mixcloud. We’re not on the payroll, but we’re hard-pressed to find a better platform for true music lovers sharing their radio shows and mixes for free for those who need ’em. There’s a…

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  • HEAVY PSYCH FROM THE JUNIPERS

    We have already played the new, brilliant track from The Junipers on our radio show. If you tuned in, you’ll know just how fabulous it is to have the greatest band in the world making music again. If you didn’t, don’t worry. The Leicester band have released a video for ‘When She Turns’. The group…

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  • HERE’S THE BRILLIANT NEW ONE FROM THE JUNIPERS!

    We promised we’d share the new video from The Junipers when we had it, and here it is! It’s a wonderful nugget of sunshine super pop, with hooky organ and dreamy psychedelia. If you’re into popsike, Emitt Rhodes and all that good stuff, you’ll love The Junipers already no doubt. In case you’re new here,…

  • LAEL NEALE’S ELECTRIC NEW SONG!

    We’ve featured Lael Neale before and like her music a lot. It’s a kinda Velvetsy, kinda singer-songwritery music that is varied and sure footed and really turns our dials! ‘Electricity’ is the name of her new single and it’s got a fun, charming video to accompany it, which you can watch below. Neale says, “I…

  • IT IS PARTLY YOUR FAULT THAT YOU THINK EVERYTHING SUCKS?

    Everything is not as good as it used to be, music is worse, music journalism is doomed, the radio is bad, there’s nothing on TV, whatever happened to that good ol’ rock ‘n’ roll?, it’s all autotune, the DJs don’t even beat match, its all Tik Tok dances and blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda,…

  • BEST TINY DESK CONCERTS

    Ranking things is such a pointless and ugly endeavour. However, it is not beneath us to be either of those things in a futile bid to create some false engagement while people disagree or agree with you. With that, we’re not going to rank every Tiny Desk concert from the lovely folks at NPR, because…

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