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When Tuareg musicians pick up electric guitars, something psychedelic and spectacular happens almost every time. This track we’re sharing is brand new and called ‘Funeral For Justice’ and comes from the brilliant Mdou Moctar. It’s firebrand stuff and taking names and numbers and kicking all kinds of ass. We love it. The track is from
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My Analog Journal is, as anyone with even the vaguest interest in record collecting, DJing and the culture, one of the finest channels around. Deep cuts, obscure stuff, amazing collectors playing inventive and super interesting sets. The latest that caught our ear is Mari*, who hails from Japan but now based in London, and produces
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You know the score with St Vincent by now – good clothes, idiosyncratic pop, angular guitar and that clever-clever stuff. Her last outing was some cocaine lonely at the top enormo-star character… we think… with ‘Daddy’s Home’. Now, it’s all, according to her, “urgent and psychotic” on the imminent LP ‘All Born Screaming’. There’s quite
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Is it Spange? Or Spang? We don’t know, but the new one from Alena Spanger is really cool and it’s called ‘All That I Wanted’ and you should give it a listen. There’s a good chance you’ve not heard of them if you’re outside of NYC, but there’s a debut album due and on the
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The greatest band in the whole world – The Junipers – haven’t made any new music in a while (which we’re all poorer for), but that doesn’t mean you can’t have a piece of them in your home. Their magical ‘Red Bouquet Fair’ LP is available on the group’s Bandcamp page, and as its Bandcamp
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The Bickershaw Festival is the stuff of legend in the North of England, and to anyone with an interest in the UK’s festival scene. Staged in a mining town with not much going on in 1972, the show was spearheaded by Jeremy Beadle, who would of course go on to have a very interesting life
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Let’s not mess around here – if you’re reading about Fonteyn on these pages, we’re going to go absolutely over the top about her. She’s brilliant. She is making exactly the kind of yearning, swoonsome ’70s pop that makes us tick. Previous outings have shown us the joys of sweet pop, huge soaring hooks and
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Kate Bush is great. What a treasure she is to have around. This was probably meant as an advert for Record Store Day (which is the Valentine’s Day for vinyl lovers, for better or worse), and the reissue of a Kate Bush track, which of course, we’ll talk about – but we’re more interested in
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Everyone’s favourite cosmic cowboys, The Hanging Stars, are coming back with a new LP and that’s always great news. While many Nu Country outfits wander past the gorgeous, ethereal nature of much of country music, not this lot. The new album is called ‘On A Golden Shore’ and you’ll be able to get your hands
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There’s a book coming out real soon that looks super interesting. We’re always in the market for learning something new, because who on earth can possibly know everything when it comes to music? The book looks at the pioneers of electronic music who were Latin American women, and it’s available to pre-order through Contingent Sounds
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RIDE REMIND YOU WHY YOU LOVE ‘EM
Shoegaze making a comeback was probably a bit of a pleasant surprise for some of the older heads, as there was a period where it was cripplingly unfashionable. However, MBV got back together and did some shows and destroyed everyone’s earholes, and the young indie fans got lost in the wash of distortion and reverb…
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YOUNG MIKO BANGS
The hotshot from Puerto Rico, Young Miko, has teamed up with Argentinian producer Bizarrap to make an early 2024 banger! It’s not got a catchy name, but you’re going to enjoy it. It’s called ‘Young Miko: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 58’. Hardly rolls off the tongue, does it? Now, this is melodic and the flow…
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WE RESERVE JUDGEMENT ON NEW AMY WINEHOUSE FLICK
Listen, we love a film about a musician but we know they’re not all good. We’ll watch them regardless, because we’re dorks like that. We’re reserving judgement until we’ve seen the whole thing, but there’s a new biopic about Amy Winehouse, but initially, it feels a bit weird. It’s called ‘Back To Black’ (they chickened…
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DID ARIANA LOSE THE CROWD?
Reading the comments on Ariana Grande’s new song ‘yes, and?’, you’re met with a lot of effusive praise. Stan culture, as we know, is a mixture of blind devotion (where would pop music be without it?) and preemptively hitting out at imagined critics. One such comment says: “stanning ariana grande isn’t just a hobby, it’s…
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