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  • YOU NEED THE GAYANCE LP IN YOUR LIFE

    DJ and producer Aïsha Vertus – you’ll be knowing her as Gayance from now – has been making solid gold bops for a while, but you need to get on their new LP ‘Mascarade’ ASAP. If having your hair stand on end and your limbs flail around wildly is your thing, then you can skip

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  • EDDIE FROM CHARLES & EDDIE KEEPS ON BEING ACE

    Eddie Chacon is very much a love of the hip and record collector sorts – sexy dads in Yogi shoes and linen trousers – but the average listener might have needed the Charles & Eddie reference in the headline to hook them in. Just explaining ourselves there in a rather meta way. It’s 2023 and

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  • MAE MULLER EUROVISION REVIEW

    Listen, we unapologetically love Eurovision ’round these parts and if you’re at all sniffy about the annual, glorious celebration of pop music in its purest form, sort yourself out, you nerd. Anyway, enough of the negatives and onto a rather big positive! The UK haven’t really go a hang of entering great pop songs into

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  • MEDIOCRE WITH POP SONG BABY

    It’s a bit meta, but it’s a great band name. Mediocre are releasing their debut EP ‘To Know You’re Screwed’ in April, and their new single ‘Pop Song Baby’ is a whole load of fun and we like stuffing it into our ears. They say: “We wanted to write a song that our teenage selves

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  • ROISIN X DJ KOZE

    DJ Koze and Roisin Murphy have worked together before, and they’re at it again, which is great news for feet and ears everywhere. The new one is called ‘CooCool’ and it’s Murphy’s first single released on Ninja Tune. You can skip all the words if you like and just head to the video below. It’s

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  • MIKE DIMES HITS HARD

    His name has been hot shit for a minute and his stock is rising quickly – Texas son Mike Dimes is not letting up and new track ‘Heavy Metal’ goes hard! This will sound good in the club or the car – we’re into it. In ’22, Dimes’ ‘In Dimes We Trust’ LP was very

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  • ACE DOC ON ALGERIAN Raï MUSIC AVAILABLE FOR FREE ON YOUTUBE

    You don’t have to speak the language to love a style of music. Maybe you are fluent in French, but no matter, because the fact is that Algeria’s Raï music is some of the most joyous and brilliant stuff ever recorded. It is a form of Algerian folk that kicked off in the ’20s and

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  • SBTRKT ALBUM SOON

    Remember how good ‘Pharaohs’ was by SBTRKT? Well, good news, they’re back soon and will have a new LP out called ‘The Rat Road’ on May 5th. In a note: “This album has been my most sonically ambitious record to create –  following my own musical path –  which isn’t based on others’ perceptions of

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  • FREE RANGE MARCH 2023

    Here’s the tracklist for the latest FREE RANGE radio show which you can hear over on Mixcloud. Click here for the most recent shows and some of the archive of mixes. Below is the newest show 1 VELMA PERKINS YES MY GOODNESS YES 2 JOHN BERBERIAN & THE ROCK EAST ENSEMBLE THE OUD & THE

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  • NOW AND THEN / FINALLY HERE

    We’ve spoken quite a bit about the last Beatles recording and it’s finally here and available to listen to it. Very bittersweet experience in all honestly. It’s age appropriate too, so don’t be expecting any 808s or dirty wub wubs. A touching final chapter to the greatest band to ever do it.

  • JAMES ELKINGTON’S TAKE ON LIBRARY MUSIC

    For so many years, library music was only a thing that tapped people’s toes if they were absentmindedly watching TV, as it soundtracked incidental moments on shows and whatnot. However, nerds started valuing the complex pop-jazz moments, the ambient segues, and more. Soon enough, library music was having a renaissance. Matt Berry (who seems to…

  • BEATLES NOW AND THEN FILM IS HERE

    We’re very sentimental and excited about the ‘Now And Then’ release that’s due from The Beatles. It’s all very bittersweet, given that it’s the ‘last recording’ they’ll do. A short film with snippets from the isolated vocal, strings, pop vox from the family and surviving members and… …stop reading this and just press play already.…

  • BOOK A HOLIDAY TO AVOID LIAM GALLAGHER PLAYING YOUR HOME TOWN

    Want to get away for a holiday and need some impetus to get organised and booking something? Well, if you live in a major city, the following is the dates Liam Gallagher is playing and your local will be filled with lads with bad feathered hair cuts, wearing gazelles and waddling around with their feet…

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