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Grace Jones is going to be the headliner of the next Bluedot festival, and that’s a great thing. Grace Jones should be headlining more festivals frankly. Of course, she curated Meltdown in ’22, but this time she’ll get to play in front of a load of devotees doing balloons and pills and that just feels…
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You need a lot of nerve and swagger to sample an iconic hip hop track like Grandmaster Flash’s ‘The Message’, but fuck it, it’s over four decades old so I think we’ll all cope. Fact is, on Coi Leray’s new single ‘Players’, it sounds fresh as hell, so we’re all good! The message is a…
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While many of their contemporaries were simply yearning for love or regretting the loss of it, The Kinks were more than just a band a pop band. Trusting their peers and listeners to understand broader ideas, they looked at the class system, the minutiae of British life, nostalgia, the rise and fall of empires and…
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We get confused very often. It’s not cute, but it is a reality. We were reading the music news for the day, wondering what we could steal and repurpose as our own like all quality publications do, and well, it got a bit weird for a second. See, we idly read something about Megadeth –…
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In another life, we interviewed Kali Uchis before she was very famous, and honestly, she was incredibly pleasant and was especially mean about the girls from her school who liked Chris Brown. She was good value and then went off with her manager to Nando’s, where we worried that she might get a bad idea…
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We’re not sure it’s great news for a musician to be told that your work is sending people to sleep. Honestly, you’d rather here it’s caused raging impotence wouldn’t you? Unless you’re the Penguin Cafe Orchestra or something. Either way, this is the news that the likes of Billlie Eilish, BTS, and Khalid have woken…
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Science has vaguely been doing its thing again, crunching some numbers and then spewing out some kind of finding. These findings we’re talking about here are by no means definitive, but we’ll talk about them anyway, because it’s funny to so. Apparently, according to boffins, being a musician makes you more attractive to possible suitors.…
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Whether you think of her music as experimental electronica, or future R&B, we can all agree that Kelela is fantastic. And she’s back with a new single called ‘Contact’. She’ll be releasing a new LP called ‘RAVEN’ which is bound to be fantastic on Feb 10th. New album ‘RAVEN’ is out on February 10th. And…
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Hey. Think your record collection is proof of you frittering your money away when you could have put a deposit down on a house? Well, watch this video. Your record collection is absolutely small fry compared to this guy from Hong Kong. A short video, so just watch it.
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Pink Floyd are going to be doing a whole load of things for the anniversary of Dark Side of the Moon. It’ll be 50 and there’s going to be deluxe boxsets and all that stuff, which honestly, you can go and find out about yourself because we’re only mentioning this because the anniversary happens to…
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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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GET FONTEYN NOW OR YOU’LL REGRET IT
Look, we were all set to write and long love letter to Fonteyn’s utterly perfect LP ‘Trip The Light Fantastic’, even though it’s not a new release, because it really is one of the most wonderful records you’re likely to hear. The reason we were hesitating is purely selfish, and that was because we didn’t…
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639 YEAR PERFORMANCE CHANGES CHORD
As well you know – John Cage is a little bugger. One of his most famous compositions is a silent piece, but another that we’re mildly obsessed by is called ‘As Slow As Possible’ – and that’s because it’s a piece that, on completion, it will have been performed for 639 years. Yesterday, the piece…
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