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The BBC Archives have hit gold again, this time with a brilliant look back at a London pirate radio station back in 1982. You’ll hear killer reggae from those with radio shows made with pure love. Pre internet, pirate radio was vital because often, it was one of the only opportunities anyone got to hear
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One of the most underrated bands of the ’90s are Urusei Yatsura. They were noisy good fun and could deliver sugary sweet punk as well as delivering all manner of unholy noise on your ears. Hailing from Glasgow and with good hair, their gigs were chaos, with drumsticks used as blunt force to hit guitars
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Being a support act on a tour must be a strange experience. Imagine you’re playing to a hundred people in a pub, and then some stadium sized band decides to take you on the road. Quite the leap, and with non of the fame. Well, here’s an old video from the BBC Archives concerning exactly
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Welsh music fans and Super Furry completists rejoice! The 1992 LP, Hei Vidal! from Ffa Coffi Pawb is getting reissued so you can have a lovely copy on vinyl. Formed in Bethesda in 1986 by sixteen year old friends Gruff Rhys and Rhodri Puw, this is the high watermark of the band’s work. You’ll be
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Blur announced some massive Wembley gigs and that was that, right? Wrong. They have surprised everyone by announcing a new album! It’s called The Ballad of Darren and is out July 21 via Parlophone. Their first since ‘The Magic Whip’. And there’s a new song too, called ‘The Narcissist.’ Damon Albarn: “This is an aftershock record, reflection and
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Pale Blue Eyes have a new song out and, if you’ve not heard of them before (that’s okay – no judgement here) and you’ve been moaning about how no-one sounds as good as what you’ve misremembered as your youth in the 1980s, you’re in luck. See, the group’s new song ‘Take Me Over’ sounds a bit
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ANOHNI and the Johnsons have a new track out and it’s a soulful, brooding gem. There’s a new LP due to called ‘My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross’, with the lead single called ‘It Must Change’. The artist says: “Some of these songs respond from the present day to global and environmental
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Donald Trump’s use of ‘YMCA’ (and to a lesser degree, ‘Macho Man’) by the Village People has been a curious thing. For someone who is, and represents everything virulently homophobic and a whole other bunch of phobics in the US, it’s particularly strange that he’d plump for a song that is not only very camp,
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Girl Ray are getting a lot of hype lately and sincerely, it’s richly deserved as they’ve been making great music for a while now, and the new stuff sounds like the best stuff they’ve done to date. Great stuff indeed. They have a new LP out in August called ‘Prestige’ and the latest track is
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Holy Wave have a new song out and it’s called ‘Happier’ and it’s a little noisy gem. The band hail from Austin and have an LP coming out called ‘Five Of Cups’ and that’ll be available to buy on August 4th. It features collabs from two Mexican shoegaze bands too, which is pretty neat (Mint
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NISA IS DANCING ALONE
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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ALT VERSION OF KISS FROM A ROSE
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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ITS NOW NATURE VS AI
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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NEW MUSIC FROM OF MONTREAL
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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