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You’ve invariably picked up a Beatle LP, seen that famous green apple, got an emorous sense of well-being, and got on with your day (unless you’re one of those terrible hipsters who think it’s fashionable to hate The Beatles – you do you, boo). Anyway, the famous split apple across two sides of a Beatle
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Are you at the age were you look forward to a reason to stay in on a Saturday night? You’re in luck, because BBC Two will be devoting a Saturday evening to the Pet Shop Boys, so you know that’s going to be excellent! This Saturday (20th May) from 19:35, you’ll get a compilation show
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The late Japanese composer and Yellow Magic Orchestra founder Ryuichi Sakamoto’s management have shared the last playlist compiled by the late, great musician. Calling it ‘Ryuichi’s Last Playlist’, they wrote: “We would like to share the playlist that Ryuichi had been privately compiling to be played at his own funeral to accompany his passing. He
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When SBTRKT were around last time, they were known for their forward thinking dancefloor chuggers, designed for those kids who weren’t necessarily into dance music and a bit frightened of Techno Lads on pills, but still wanted to scuff their sneakers up on the dirty dancefloors. ‘Pharaohs’ and ‘Wildlife’ were solid gold bangers, but in
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Dolly Parton is great fun and it doesn’t matter if her new music is good or bad, because she’s a wonderful woman to have around. In super silly news, she’s announced she’s going rock. And because she’s fucking Dolly fucking Parton and she can do whatever the fuck she wants, she’s basically assembled an eye-watering
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Ciara has sneaked back out and you’ll be glad to know it’s a breathy, slow number. In fact, it’s called ‘Slow’, which is handy! We’re going to ignore her terrible taste in men, as that’s for another time, but suffice to say, we like it when she makes music that’s for making out to, and
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The Glastonbury Festival (or Pilton Pop Festival to ageing locals) can be annoying, but that’s probably down to being so ubiquitous, right? That said, looking back at it’s history is a potted history of British counterculture, especially when you get back to the heady days of the early ’70s when the hippie dream was still
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Thanks to our brains being thoroughly banjaxed by various algorithms, sometimes you stumble across a corner of the internet and find yourself completely disorientated by what you’ve found. Considering the propensity for mad conspiracy theories and memes that have strayed so far away from the original joke that to understand it, it feels like you
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This isn’t technically music, but pop culture counts, and we stumbled across a glorious DIY documentary of mall life in ’80s USA Candid interviews with kids hanging out, talking about buying records, flirting, shopping, smoking cigarettes and more. Great accents and haircuts galore. Enjoy.
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Grimes makes music and she’s got stuff to say about artificial intelligence. Now, there’s been a lot of chat about AI recently, as basically, it’s got sophisticated enough to start making soundalike songs of other artists, and this goes beyond parody and impersonation – it’s something new and weird, so we’ve got to have a
STOP HOARDING TUNES
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INDIGO GIRLS MOVIE
The Indigo Girls are one of those hugely significant bands that mean so much to so many, yet, fly under the radar of most rock press, almost invariably because they’re women, and maybe because they make folk rock. They also happen to be gay, and the male gaze doesn’t stretch that far, clearly. The group…
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PSYCHEDELIC WEST AFRICA
Not every day is a solid news day, and not every day sees something you want to spend the time reviewing. However, other people are doing good stuff and we feel the need to share that, because we’re not the oracle on everything. With that, the always fantastic Bandsplaining have done a smart video on…
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TIK TOK TO GET BANNED IN THE US?
The music industry is sparring with TikTok and the whole thing has the vague whiff of when the music industry had a massive brawl with Napster. Now, of course, the scrap with Napster somehow ended up with Spotify, which isn’t exactly a result for people who make music, but consumers are happy enough. TikTok, for…
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APPLE FINED OVER MUSIC CHICANERY
Once again, we’re talking about the lousy algorithm. For fear of sounding like horrible old-heads who yearn for the past, we do miss the time when we had every opportunity of listening to the music we wanted to, because we were the people off down the shops and trying before we were buying, and then…
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