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Daft Punk are ace, and there’s still cool stuff in the hard drive it turns out, as they’ve put out a previously unreleased track that features The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas. This track is called ‘Infinity Repeating’ and is not to be confused with the other track they did with him. Great news too, that this…
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Janelle Monae has had an interesting career and it looks like more of the same with a new LP called ‘The Age Of Pleasure’ – and if you like your news to come ready made with some new music to listen to, you’re in luck – there’s a brand spanker called ‘Lipstick Lover’ to get…
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One of the weirder things about the coronation of Sausage Hands Charlie (amongst a myriad of utterly bizarre things, honestly – we’ll get to that at the end) regards a man sat in the throng who looked like someone in disguise. The internet had a laugh and joked that it was obviously Meghan Markle in…
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Impossibly handsome and every bit as broken – Syd Barrett is one of the faces of the psychedelic movement, and yet, still so enigmatic. With that, there’s always going to be interest in him, how he founded and named one of the biggest band’s in the world and, to many, his time in the band…
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If you’ve ever wanted to see what it was like during a seminal time on the White Isle, then you need to check Dave Swindell’s ‘Ibiza ’89’ book. Start muttering about the quality of pills and what constitutes ‘Balearic’ and all that good stuff, while leafing through some gorgeous photos of the time. There’s over…
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If you want to listen to a load of Eurovision songs from all decades, then have we got a playlist for you! Now, this skews a little more modern than maybe most, but don’t worry, ‘Ding-a-Dong’ and ABBA are in there. Eurovision of course, has been so historically uncool that it turns out having innocent,…
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Songs your dad loved are back in vogue thanks to a load of younger, possibly traumatised kids looking toward a simpler time of the ’70s or, at least, road trip radio stations, which sees younger artists wading into the comfort and flared jeans. With that, we tripped over a new song by Petal called ‘You…
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Where would we be without subversive, playful pop-art? The LPs and gig posters of the world would be drab without those with a flair for visual art. And one of the best to do it, Frank Kozik, has sadly left us. So it’s only right to celebrate his work in the hope that someone else…
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You know when you walk into a record shop and they’re playing something a bit offbeat and wonky, and you don’t ask what it is, and it bugs you for a week as it’s got under your skin and you wish you can hammer it on repeat? Well, welcome to Decisive Pink’s new song, ‘Dopamine’,…
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It’s absolutely true to say that Rita Lee is one of the most influential voices in Brazilian music history, as well as being a pioneer and revolutionary in South American rock & roll. Worldwide, shes one of the faces of psychedelic music, and after an illness, she is sadly no longer with us. Rita died…
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IS 2024 A CRITICAL MOMENT FOR TAYLOR SWIFT?
Look, Taylor Swift is breathing such rarified air these days that any suggestion that she’s not going to be a commercial success is pretty much laughable. Any idea that she won’t have a hit is really not what we’re talking about here, so if you are a person who only works on the metric of…
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NISA IS DANCING ALONE
If we’re weary of two things in music currently, it’s post-punk shouty bollix, and whispery, breathy doe-eyed vocals. You might think this song falls in the latter bracket, but it has a bit more about it, so you should give it a whirl. Nisa’s ‘Dance Alone’ is out now, from the album out on Friday…
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ALT VERSION OF KISS FROM A ROSE
It’s a baroque pop gem of a song is ‘Kiss From A Rose’ by Seal. What’s remarkable is that he wrote the song in 1987 and hung onto it until everything was just right to release it on… well… the Neverending Story III soundtrack. And then the Batman Forever soundtrack. Initially, Seal wasn’t too keen…
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ITS NOW NATURE VS AI
We live in weird times, but sometimes, peculiar things happen and you have to embrace them. With artificiality becoming an increasing concern with the advent of AI and whatnot, what of nature itself? Well, someone’s had a bright idea to get nature its royalties. No, seriously. Many musicians include the sounds of nature in their…
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