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  • BILL CALLAHAN IS BACK!

    Bill Callahan’s lovely deep, soulful voice is back to grace your ears with the announcement of a new album. It’ll be called ‘My Days of 58’ and you’ll be able to hear the whole thing early next year on February 27th. Here’s the first song from it and it sounds exactly like you want a…

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  • ‘MICHAEL’ TRAILER DROP

    The first trailer for the Michael Jackson biopic has dropped. The film is called ‘Michael’, which worries us slightly as it suggests it’s all going to be a little too kind and not gnarly enough to be a meaty movie. In addition to that, Jackson is being played by his nephew Jaafar, which again, suggests…

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  • DE LA SOUL RETURN

    De La Soul have a new album coming out and it goes by the name of ‘Cabin in the Sky’, and for those of you Daisy Agers who can’t wait to see if the boys have still got it, you can listen to a song from it below. The newbie is called ‘The Package’, and…

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  • SPOTIFY PAYOLA?

    Any musician who has uploaded their music to Spotify as an independent artist knows how futile it all is, expecting to end up on any of the editorial lists made by the company, which help push songs to millions of people using their front page. The fact is, if you don’t have the connections through…

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  • RIP JOSEPH BYRD – A TRUE ONE-OFF

    After his father bought a mine in Tucson, Arizona, Joseph Byrd grew up and found himself drawn to music. Initially, it was vibraphone and accordion in pop groups, he soon branched out into local TV arrangements and college jazz combos. A talented kid, he found himself in a fellowship at Stanford, where he rubbed shoulders…

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  • SHOEGAZE DANIEL AVERY MIX

    You may know Daniel Avery for his smart techno music, but there’s more strings to his bow than thunderous beats and brain frazzling synths. To show that, he’s done a really nice shoegaze mix which is perfect for transporting you out of the gloomy weather at the tail end of 2025. While this mix may…

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  • WEYES BLOOD FEATURES ON SPELLING TRACK

    If you’ve been waiting impatiently for a new album from Weyes Blood, you need to chill your boots. All good things come in their own time. Of course, she featured on a Drugdealer track earlier in the year, but she’s also appearing on a new track from SPELLING. And yes, we kinda feel bad that…

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  • ORVILLE PECK RETURNS

    Orville Peck is one of the leading alt-country voices – thankfully, that means his musical choices, rather than simply branding him as ‘alternative’ because he isn’t a heterosexual man – although you’d be forgiven for thinking that’s the case. He’s got a new EP coming out on November 14th called ‘Appaloosa’ and there’s a song…

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  • VIAL’S GLAM GRUNGE

    A lot of punk has a hardcore or pop punk bent at the moment – makes sense given the early Noughties are officially retro and the kids are looking to the past for comfort. Well, it’s nice to see some other genres bleeding into the scene. We look to VIAL, who have put a single…

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  • DISCUSSING ROISIN MURPHY

    We wanted to write something about this Whole Thing with Roisin Murphy, but didn’t get much further than “why can’t some people just shut their mouths about other communities, especially ones who loved them so much?” Well, we just watched a very sensitive and well thought out video essay from The Last Mixed Tape, which…

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  • GET ON THIS ANA TIJOUX NUMBER

    The amount of non-English performers making waves worldwide is incredibly satisfying to see, because frankly, it’s weird to only listen to music you understand the words of. You telling us that everyone could understand the opening verse of ‘Geno’ when it first came out? Behave yourselves. Anyway, let’s have a listen to the new one…

  • THEY HATE CHANGE GLITCH HOP

    We don’t know what’s in the water down Tampa Bay, but They Hate Change have a new one out that falls squarely in the experimental rap hole, and that’s no bad thing. Don’t worry – it’s listenable and fun – it’s not circuit board screaming gloom. They have a new EP out called ‘Wish You…

  • DOG UNIT’S JAZZY POST ROCK

    What happens when you mix German cosmic prog and Chicago post-rock? Well, you get Dog Unit’s new track called ‘When Do We Start Fighting?’ and it’s sounding really good on first listen! The group hail from London and there’s going to be a new LP in April called ‘At Home’. You can buy music from…

  • FORGET INDIE SLEAZE / BRING BACK FRENCH HOUSE

    The Gossip are coming back, the Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs rubbed shoulders with LCD Soundsystem on the ‘Meet Me In The Bathroom’ documentary, and it’s all well and good and it’s encouraging to see a load of loud, fun music making a comeback. However, we’re much more interested in a revival of skuzzy, super…

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