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10 Things I Hate About You is a fine teen movie and the popularity of it has only grown in recent years, thanks to a mildly angsty Gen X current that runs through it. Local bylaws state that you have to point out it is based on Shakespeare too. Well, looks like its going to
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Not quite grunge, not quite ’90s indie, not quite pop, Singapore’s Subsonic Eye have a new single out which scratches a number of itches, across a number of different independent music genres. That’s a good thing, obviously. They’ve announced a new LP – called ‘Singapore Dreaming’ – which you’ll be able to hear on June
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Music collective Mourning [A] BLKstar have a new song out that’s a wonderful marriage of jazz and soul, but all forward-looking rather than relying wholly on the past, and it is definitely worth your ears and time. There’s a new LP due called ‘Flowers For The Living’ and that’ll be available in May. The new
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Our problem with a lot of modern period post-punk and New Wave music is that it is so boring and conservative. Not tuneful enough, nor weird enough, it’s usually dour groups who are more well-read than they are songwriters. We get it – you’ve got a problem with too many cans during the week and
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We really like the message behind the new single from Sports Team. A lot of songs keep their messages coded, but ‘Sensible’ is not one of those songs, ripping into self-help nonsense that blights us right now. Rob Knaggs says the new track is “about the myth of betterment. ‘Go to the gym. Get ripped!
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Deradoorian are a new name to us, but we just heard ‘No No Yes Yes’ and we immediately started thinking about Dinosaur L, ESG, and all that fun punky disco from NYC that makes you want to wreck your trainers in a squat rave! There’s a new album on the way ‘Ready for Heaven’ coming out
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Wolf Alice are one of the cooler pop-adjacent rock groups out there, so it is good to hear the distant rumbling of a comeback for them. It might all be a bit vague, but the rumblings are pretty loud. Over on Twitter, a band tweeted that they’d “had a dream last night that wolf alice
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Do you like Sports Banger attire? Do you like The KLF? Well, of a fashion, the two are teaming up and you can buy cool shit for a cool cause while you’re at it. Banger are opening the studio doors next Thursday where they promise “drinks, music and bricks” to celebrate the launch of K2
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Once, space travel was amazing. The adventure of the human spirit, going where no person had ever been before! We did it to learn, for science, for some kind of indomitable wanderlust and… now? Yuck. See, a bunch of billionaires have got their own space race going on, and those billionaires aren’t cool and have
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Jazz can be pretty impenetrable, what with it not getting much play on the radio and TV. However, the genre is in rude health and, one of the leading lights in the scene is guitarist and big brain composer Mary Halvorson. She’s got a new album coming out called ‘About Ghosts’, which you’ll be able
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BILL CALLAHAN IS BACK!
Bill Callahan’s lovely deep, soulful voice is back to grace your ears with the announcement of a new album. It’ll be called ‘My Days of 58’ and you’ll be able to hear the whole thing early next year on February 27th. Here’s the first song from it and it sounds exactly like you want a…
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‘MICHAEL’ TRAILER DROP
The first trailer for the Michael Jackson biopic has dropped. The film is called ‘Michael’, which worries us slightly as it suggests it’s all going to be a little too kind and not gnarly enough to be a meaty movie. In addition to that, Jackson is being played by his nephew Jaafar, which again, suggests…
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DE LA SOUL RETURN
De La Soul have a new album coming out and it goes by the name of ‘Cabin in the Sky’, and for those of you Daisy Agers who can’t wait to see if the boys have still got it, you can listen to a song from it below. The newbie is called ‘The Package’, and…
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SPOTIFY PAYOLA?
Any musician who has uploaded their music to Spotify as an independent artist knows how futile it all is, expecting to end up on any of the editorial lists made by the company, which help push songs to millions of people using their front page. The fact is, if you don’t have the connections through…
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