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You know Thomas Bangalter from Daft Punk? Well, he’s announced details of his first official solo album in 20 years, titled ‘Mythologies’. Exciting eh? Big tops-off pumpers and amyl bangers? Well… This was conceived for a ballet which was performed in July 2022 in Bordeaux at the Grand Théâtre. It’s not sounding massively party, is…
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Is it jazz? Is it folk? Is it fusion? Is it (whisper it now) balearic? Whatever it is, it is staggeringly gorgoues and it goes by the name of ‘Nyanser’ and it is by Thomas Almqvist. It was originally released in ’79 on Mistlur Records in Sweden, and it is a groovy, sophisticated number that…
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We’re going to go to through this bit by bit, just to show you how dreadful the reactionary, tabloid press is. The headline says ‘trans rights’ in it too, so you may already be on your haunches. Let us begin with the Daily Mail’s headline: Now Aretha Franklin’s song Natural Woman is deemed OFFENSIVE to…
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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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THE RETURN OF BETH GIBBONS
Beth Gibbons is one of the good ones. Never needlessly hurried, she’s made incredible music with Portishead, and of course, she’s done other work like the folkie numbers with Rustin Man and Paul Webb. Well, she is back again with her debut solo LP ‘Lives Outgrown’. “As usual it reflects what’s been going on with…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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