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There’s clearly a scam afoot which needs addressing – streaming platforms are making money from A.I. music with inflated streaming numbers from bots. If the audience is removed, and platforms benefit from programs generating income for themselves, then that’s a con, right? We wrote about the AI group who had amassed millions of listens, but
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What can you write about Ozzy Osborne? A man who lived enough life for all of us put together. A pioneer. A funny swine. A heroic effort to hedonism. An unlikely reality TV star. The man who, with Black Sabbath, pretty much invented heavy metal. A great fella. While tributes pour in from every corner,
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Our new radio show has been uploaded and features music from Argentina, Malawi, Madagascar, the former Yugoslavia, Japan, and more places besides! There’s funky stuff, power pop, new releases including the new one from Tchotchke and a gem from Domenique Dumont! We’d include the tracklisting, but we encourage you to listen to the show and
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The new Cate Le Bon track is out and it’s called ‘Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?’ and it’s a moody, psychedelic synth track and, predictably, it’s very good. The accompanying video is left-of-centre, and we spent a good chunk of it worrying about a fun little dog who gets tied to a bollard. We’re
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Tyler dropped a new album (or is it a mixtape? That line is blurred these days). Whatever it is, it is a load of fun and almost made us think that he’s the natural heir to The Neptunes. He’s something of an auteur, and rap always needs those. One thing we learned is that we
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The amount of praise we throw at Tchotchke must make some people wonder if we’re on the payroll or something, but rest assured, we’re just big fans. And luckily for us and everyone else, there’s yet more music out in the shape of the new song ‘Now I Love You’. This one is a drumless,
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One of our favourite illustrators on the planet right now is the supremely talented and unique Carly Jean Andrews. Based out on the West Coast of the United States, she’s been winning hearts with her bold, brilliant art for a while now. Her work touches on a host of things, including complex, ’70s inspired typeface
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Questioning the net value of new technologies is always a worthwhile endeavour, and of course, artificial intelligence is the latest hot topic on everyone’s lips because, on the surface, it’s a technological miracle – but it comes with concerns. The scraping of other people’s words, art, music and the rest, is definitely stealing rebadged as
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Pastoral psych group Whitney have announced a new album, called ‘Small Talk’ and the good news is that there’s a new song to listen to which sounds comfortingly like a Whitney song should sound. The new album will be available on November 7th, and you know exactly where to go if you want to find
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Massive Attack have been very vocal about the situation with Gaza – the group have refused to play in Israel since the late ’90s. With that in mind, they have announced an alliance comprised of musicians, hitting out against “intimidations from within” the music business. On social media, they shared a statement about an alliance of
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VINYL / STILL GROWING
In the UK, sales of vinyl just keeps on growing. That’s the 16th consecutive year that this has happened, and now we’re hitting the levels we saw in the early ’90s, which is great news. People just getting into vinyl are in for a lifelong love affair, and have just become the easiest person to…
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WATCH // SOVIET RAVE AS THE IRON CURTAIN FELL
We’ve been trying to have a Christmas and it’s nearly NYE time, which means recreational things and good music. Speaking of raves, the mighty Bandsplaining channel have made a killer video about the ‘final party’ of the Soviet Union. Illegal raves, acid house music, fringe art and intellectuals, and amazing footage of the scene in…
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MERRY XMAS
We’re having some time off now. It’s Christmas. You should have some time off too, hopefully. Get some presents. Eat well. Be merry. Raise a glass to those who can’t be with us. Give a squeeze to those we’re with. There may be some sporadic posts. There might not. This is not a slick operation.…
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BEST SONGS OF 2023 [AND MORE]
A great song doesn’t necessarily appear on a great album. A great song might not be on any album at all. So with that, we’re rounding up our favourite songs of the year and there’s a variety of ways you can consume these. If you don’t like turning the volume up on your phone under…
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