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We’ve lost The 45 King, and we couldn’t let his passing go without paying tribute. Real name Mark James, The 45 King is a supremely influential producer and mover and shaker in hip hop and club music, even if he wasn’t a household name broadly. Influence and fame aren’t the same thing. James has produced
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Whether you like it or not, Britney Spears is about to drop the biggest pop-cultural moment of 2023, and it’s not even new music. The fervour around her new memoir is bigger than, say, a new album from Rihanna or the imminent Beatles release. And why is that? Well, largely, it’s because Britney is still
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Brazil has a wealth of incredible psychedelic music at the moment – a second wave of Tropicalia if you like – which we plan on writing about extensively (if it doesn’t appear in a magazine, pitch skills dependent). One of the best groups are BIKE who are fuzz forward and heavily cosmic and we love
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Dawn Richard is brilliant. Experimental R&B and related and always ahead of the curve for sure. We shared her fantastic ‘Bubblegum’ track a while back, but now there’s a three track EP and one of the songs of it needs you to update your playlists! ‘Babe Ruth’ is a cross between house and R&B and
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Caroline Polachek has been making big waves lately and even landed a primo slot on the Colbert show, which is no mean feat. With that, she’s got a new glitchy number which might be our favourite of hers yet. It’s called ‘Dang!’ too, and came from the same sessions as her last LP ‘Desire, I
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It isn’t generally a good sign when a company takes over another company and promptly sacks half the staff, is it? Seen the absolute shambles at Twitter? Exactly. And so to Bandcamp, depressingly. Music licensing company Songtradr bought the platform – widely regarded to be the saviour of independent musicians getting any kind of income
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You’d think 1984 would be a vintage year for Michael Jackson. His album ‘Thriller’ has basically conquered the world and, for many, redefined what it meant to be a popstar and the subsequent tour only cemented his place in the annals of pop, fully breaking free from the shadow of his pop past. However, post-Thriller,
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It’s nice to see the return of noisy indie music. We’re not sure if this is classic college rock, shoegaze or what. It doesn’t really matter as we’re imagining the sound of Wishy cascading over us from a small stage, and it feels real nice. They’re from Indiana and we don’t know too much about
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Mr Bongo put good records out, and the latest we’ve spotted is a gem from Daniel Ögren, who you might know from our newest favourite band Dina Ögon. Available on special magenta vinyl (and standard obvs), Ögren’s ‘Fastingen-92′ was initially put out on a limited pressing in 2020, and now Mr Bongo have reissued the
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Wanna watch something cool? You’re in luck. Amplified have shared a documentary on YouTube about the start of the New York City punk scene. All the faces you want to see are there – Iggy, Debbie, The Ramones, and talking heads from Jayne County, Alice Cooper, Lenny Kaye, Alan Vega and loads more. From non
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REVIEW / PAT’S SOUNDHOUSE / SILLY DEMON
Many bands aim for Pet Sounds when they’re trying to make ambitious pop, but a lot of groups miss out on the pure, inventive, playful joy when they’re channelling Brian Wilson, Curt Boettcher & Co. There’s a shed pop, ramshackle feeling to when these things work best, like someone’s tripped over a box of classroom…
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HEAR THE NEW BETH GIBBONS SINGLE
If you’re a fan of Portishead and Beth Gibbons, you won’t need much in the way of convincing to listen to her new single. If you do, you’ll be thrilled to know it’s great! There’s no point us reviewing it to tease you. Just press play already.
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TORY MP GOES FOR DRILL, MISSING OWN INFLUENCE
A Tory MP has attacked the whole of Drill music, because she thinks it is the reason that young people carry knives. Nickie Aiken says there’s a “direct link” and wants the government to look at record labels that release music that is found “celebrating gang culture.” At the House of Commons, the Cities of…
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SO, KACEY MUSGRAVES THEN
Never mind Tay Tay announcing a new LP – we can ignored that as everyone has already talked it to death already. We’re more interested in the imminent music from the mighty Kacey Musgraves. She’s been making a slow-melting psychedelic country music since her utterly fabulous ‘Golden Hour’ album (yes, that wasn’t her debut, but…
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