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  • MORE COOL TWANG FROM ALLEGRA KREIGER

    Allegra Krieger has a new album out called ‘Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine’, and you’ll be able to hear that tomorrow in fact! Below is the final single that preempts it, and it’s really cool. We really liked another single she released in the build-up to this – here – which was a neat

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  • IS THIS REALLY THE SWIFTIES VS TECH BROS VOTE IN THE USA?

    The presidential race in the USA has a lot hanging on it, for sure, but regardless of that, the whole thing has made for some really good TV. It always does, because one thing the Americans love, is making great television. A thick line has been drawn and either side of it stand two candidates

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  • WAVY RAP FROM BABYFACE RAY

    A lovely little Detroit one-two here from Babyface Ray, featuring Veeze. Babyface has a new album this week called ‘The Kid That Did’ which we’re looking forward to hearing. In advance, you can listen to ‘Wavy Navy University’, which is a psychedelic take on trap-hop. Big Sean, Pusha T and G Herbo count themselves as

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  • MUNA: SCARY FANS

    MUNA are great, have had a number of hot songs, and with that, have seen their popularity rightly grow. The group’s identity have seen them filling a hole in pop culture which has seen a pocket of fans feeling incredibly seen by them, to use the common parlance of the youth. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it turns

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  • INDIE FUZZ FROM GIRL SCOUT

    If you’re in the market for some seriously fun indie fuzz pop, then you will like the new song from Swedish group Girl Scout, who just so happen to have told everyone that they’ve got a new EP coming out. The EP is called ‘Headache’ and it’ll be out in November (where did the year

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  • ARE STANS THE FOOTBALL HOOLIGANS OF POP?

    Once upon a time in the days of black and white and the British pound being split up into unfathomable fractions, fans of football teams would clap and twirl their rattles, cheering on their favourite football team and having a pint or six, with a hard luck to or from the opposing fanbase. Something changed

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  • KENDRICK SUPER BOWL 2025

    Kendrick is doing the Super Bowl in February 2025. Now, two things – does this basically confirm a new album is going to be released before the year is out? And also, are we going to hear an entire stadium shouting “A MINNNNOOOOOOR” at Drake on the biggest televised event in the world during that

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  • BLACK MIDI SPLIT / SINGER GOES SOPHISTIPOP?

    We’re not really into the whole post-punk, long anorak, well-read indie music stuff on these pages. We’re not saying that it is a bad thing, rather, just letting you know that with these things, we’re an unreliable source. And so to Black Midi who were the darlings of lads in cherry red Doc Martens, gloomy

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  • PAVEMENT / THE MOVIE

    Funny what people turn into films these days. The latest to surprise us (not unpleasantly, mind) is the movie about indie slacker kings, Pavement. It is called ‘Pavements’ and directed by Alex Ross Perry who we don’t know, but we’re going to assume they love a trucker cap and a plaid shirt and some beat

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  • DOROTHY CARTER’S TROUBADOUR REISSUE

    In record collector circles, Dorothy Carter is a big ticket and her ‘Troubadour’ LP is the stuff of legend. Originally released back in 1976, it was a pioneering and unique work and linked up folk with other-worldly avant-garde behaviours. It’s a wild and beautiful body of work. She studied formally before finding herself in a

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  • LANA DEL REY – USHERING IN A NEW PERIOD OF COUNTRY?

    Lana Del Rey has a new LP coming out called ‘Lasso’, which means she’s going country, and honestly, it’s a move that feels right doesn’t it? Long an admirer of the aesthetic of faded glamour, big hair and broken women, Hollywood and rhinestones, Lana’s version of country music is likely to be that good kinda…

  • THE MOST TOXIC BARTENDER YOU KNOW GETS A BIG NIGHT OUT

    They’ve chirpsed half your mates, given three of them STDs and referred to every single one of their exes as ‘mental’, and they got promoted at the bar they worked at, in part, for coming up with a mildly successful drink, in part because they’re willing to get bags in midweek and split them with…

  • UNIVERSAL AXE TIKTOK

    TikTok are new media, and by and large, record companies are resolutely middle aged. With that, social media and physical media are going to be at loggerheads, and this time, it’s Universal Music who are at it, and they’re going to pull all their music from TikTok in the coming days, after failing to reach…

  • STANS NEED TO CHECK THEMSELVES

    We’ve all felt that unswerving love for an artist that makes us want to leap to their defence at the mere mention of their name, because you’re bored of everyone slagging them off. Hashing it out down the pub is one of music’s great theatrical events, but thanks to terminally online culture, lines can be…

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