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  • RIHANNA SUPERBOWL TEASER

    She’s back. Well, coming back. Rihanna – perhaps the coolest popstar we’ve ever had – hasn’t released any proper music for roughly a million years, since ‘ANTI’ made everyone’s jaws drop. When it was announced that she was going to be the SuperBowl halftime show, everyone got very excited because that possibly means new music!

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  • WANT ‘ELECTRONIC MUSIC PRODUCER’ DOLL, THEN?

    Meet Kavi Sharma. Kavi is a doll that makes bangers, and that’s very obviously a fun thing. See, where music production used to be the playground of old lads with hairy ears and stoners, technology has opened it up to everyone, and now, very young people can do it themselves and actual children can aspire

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  • BRIT AWARDS NOT KEEN ON WOMEN MAKING MUSIC

    The Brit Awards (remember those?) is coming in for some justifiable stick this week, as they’ve completely failed to recognise any women in their Best British Artist category. So, what we’ll do is try our best to give them the benefit of the doubt while simultaneously rinsing them and pointing out the women that absolutely

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  • ARE PARAMORE FINALLY GOING TO GET WHAT THEY DESERVE?

    Paramore have not had an easy ride. When they first appeared on the scene proper, they found themselves working just about as hard as a band can work in the middle of a number of Vans Warped tour where, unsurprisingly for an event made up of frat boys pretending to be skaters and a load

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  • NEW 03 GREEDO

    He’s good is 03 Greedo. A fine rapper indeed. And he’s surprised everyone by dropping a new tape (not a literal tape of course, but that’d be nice if he did). The new release is called ‘FREE 03’ and has 15 songs for you to listen to. It has guesties from the late Drakeo the

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  • A BEATLE, A BEAVER, A KRAUSE: EXPERIMENTS IN ELECTRONIC MUSIC

    ‘Electronic Sound’ isn’t exactly at the front of people’s brains when it comes to Beatle Solo LPs. However, it is one of the more interesting cuts, from a vault that is possibly the most interesting and varied of off-shoot projects of any rock group. This is George Harrison of ‘My Sweet Lord’ lawsuit fame, and

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  • JUDGE READS YOUNG THUG

    Obviously, the story surrounding Young Thug’s RICO charges in the US is incredibly serious and very complex. If you’re looking for a serious, considered piece about this whole affair, then you should look somewhere else because, frankly, if we even hint at a sober thought, we’re too emotional and too bias and will fly off

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  • 1980 BELFAST PUNKS

    At the turn of the ’80s, the yoof TV show Something Else had a great featurette on punk in Belfast. If you like local scenes, spotty kids and derelict streets, you’re in for a treat! Of course, ’80s Northern Ireland means – by law – you have to mention sectarianism and The Troubles. We’ve now

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  • EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL ARE BACK AND IT IS GOOD NEWS

    Everything But The Girl are back and it’s easy to worry about such a thing, because older acts can embarrass themselves sometimes. Not the case with Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt though because they love pop music and don’t muck around. It’s their first new tune in 24 years and it’s called ‘Nothing Left To

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  • JULIA HOLTER WITH NEW MUSIC

    It’s not Julia Holter’s fault that all the toxic sadbois who have been in your DMs incessantly love her. She’s a cool songwriter and deserves her flowers. Well, she’s got a new track out called ‘Sun Girl’ and it has a real pretty video, made by animator and artist Tammy Nguyễn. She’s been away from…

  • MOONRIIVR WITH THAT OLD TIMEY MUSIC

    Not all music has to reinvent the wheel. Sometimes, you just want the simple pleasure of that good time music that’s as familiar as it is fun. So, to MOONRIIVR, with a song that is like an old country song, if it shared some bunkbeds with DIY indie. It’s called ‘Flowers on the Fire Escape’…

  • WHICH GRAMMY NOMS DO YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT?

    The 2024 Grammy nominations have been announced. Awards ceremonies suck, we know, we know. But honestly, more than ever, recent ceremonies gave seemed so wildly out of step with what people are listening to, and looking at this year’s Grammy nominations, we’re insert shrug emoji here. For starters – record of the year has the…

  • ANNIE-CLAUDE DESCHÊNES SOUNDS LIKE YOU HOPE

    With a name like Annie-Claude Deschênes and a track called ‘Menace Minimale’ on a label called Italians Do It Better, you’d hope she’d be putting out pumping, darkwave synthpop, wouldn’t you? Good thing that this is exactly what we’re looking at here. She’s a member of Duchess Says, and this we think, is her first…

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