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It’s great having collectibles on your shelf isn’t it? Whether it’s Funko Pops of your fave horror films, art bits and cassettes when you don’t have a tape player, whatever. With that in mind, wouldn’t you like to have Eric B & Rakim on your shelf? Course you would! Eric B & Rakim are amazing!
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Music is a funny ol’ business, and in the days of streaming, something interesting has happened. Thanks to algorithmic sentiments, it feels like it’s never been harder for smaller artists to reach an audience. Radio play is decided by committees and focus groups, which leaves us with a trace amount of DJs playing whatever they
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Well, Spotify have decided the way to fix the broken royalties model is to stop paying small bands. Now, that’s not how they’ll be spinning it, but it’s the reality of the situation. See, Spotify have a problem with ‘noise’ tracks and those generating plays by making ‘non music’. So, to fix that, they’re going
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The Chemical Brothers are saying ‘Goodbye’. Not forever, mind you. It’s the name of their new single and as ever, it’s got a really fancy, psychedelic video. They always have ace visuals don’t they? If you’ve seen them live recently, your eyeballs are probably still fizzing like Alka Seltzer in soup. Great craic. There’s also an
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Mildlife are an Australian band designed for dancing too. However, it’s also very much music of the head too, as they’ve been dubbed variously as ‘psychedelic jazz fusion’ and ‘prog disco’. If both of those phrases gave you a bit of the ick, don’t worry – this track you’re about to hear is cool, cool shit.
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Maybe we should know who Fever Ray are, but we don’t. Judging by this new thing we’ve just listened to, we’re still not sure because it’s a remix. And what a banger of a remix it is! The track is called ‘Even It Out’ and it s a rejig by Frost Children, and it’s a
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You remember Steve Mason from the Beta Band right? He’s always up to something. The latest is getting Mancunian rapper OneDa to rework his ‘Moss Side Fish Fry’, and it’s a elastic bass synth gem, honestly. OneDa says: “I approached this track as I would do a spoken word piece, using my verses in a
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We’ve spoken quite a bit about the last Beatles recording and it’s finally here and available to listen to it. Very bittersweet experience in all honestly. It’s age appropriate too, so don’t be expecting any 808s or dirty wub wubs. A touching final chapter to the greatest band to ever do it.
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For so many years, library music was only a thing that tapped people’s toes if they were absentmindedly watching TV, as it soundtracked incidental moments on shows and whatnot. However, nerds started valuing the complex pop-jazz moments, the ambient segues, and more. Soon enough, library music was having a renaissance. Matt Berry (who seems to
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We’re very sentimental and excited about the ‘Now And Then’ release that’s due from The Beatles. It’s all very bittersweet, given that it’s the ‘last recording’ they’ll do. A short film with snippets from the isolated vocal, strings, pop vox from the family and surviving members and… …stop reading this and just press play already.
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NEW BROADCAST ALBUMS
Anyone with good taste will tell you just how much they love Broadcast and how sadly missed they are. Of course, the band ended with the untimely death of Trish Keenan, but for people who love them, there’s good news. Broadcast have announced that they’re going to release some new music – they say it’ll…
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MORE NEW KHRUANGBIN
Look, not everything Khruangbin release is absolute gold, but it sure is lovely to have them around with their soulful, gently psychedelic twang, and handily for us, they have a new song out called ‘Pon Pón’. This is another song that is taken from their upcoming album called ‘A La Sala’. We featured the other…
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DRAGGING LOUIS WALSH
“No-one’s going to read this”. That’s what Louis Walsh said of the hugely popular and brilliant book about pop music, written by pop superfan and oracle, Michael Cragg. To most pop fans, this wasn’t especially surprising, because there’d always been something off about Walsh according to anyone who had eyes and ears. He’s back in…
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WILLIE NELSON + KERMIT ON STAGE
Willie Nelson played a show in Texas and Kermit the Frog came on stage and they sang ‘Rainbow Connection’ together. Honestly, what more do you need to hear? It’s just about the most wholesome thing you’re going to see. Press play, and marvel at the detail of the puppeteers when they position Kermit’s hand like…
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