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Hey Tom Waits fans! Newly remastered bits from the gravel voiced master and the whole thing has been personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, according to the press release we’re copying from. We’re looking at the period between ’83 and ’93, which contains some real hot stuff. They’ll be reissued on vinyl, and…
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Pharoah Sanders’ 1977 album ‘Pharoah’ is getting a reissue in a box set from Luaka Bop, which is cool and all, but the real rub is that there’s going to be previously unreleased music, which is great news! It’ll end up on streaming services if you’re not earning box set money, don’t worry. September 15th…
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Are you of a certain age and you fondly recall the days of 4AD Records, where there was a spate of bands melding shoegaze and dance music, with oversized jumpers and even more oversized fringes? Are you a young person who looks back on those days wishing you could have heard these songs as new?…
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You’re not supposed to give them attention, apparently, because that’s all they want. However, fuck that. See, apparently there’s a culture war-a-brewin’, and honestly, it’s 99% people just getting on with their lives and 1% just crying into the seat of their pants, and that’s worth pointing out. There’s two ‘anti woke’ tracks doing the…
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Nashville may well make you thinking of rhinestones and country music, but Nashville is a big place and has way more going on than you might think. And so, to gonzo punks Snõõper who are about to release their debut LP and judging from the track we’re about to share, it’s going to be a…
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For some, UK Garage never went away and, of course, in the underground, there’s been people holding it down for 2 Step, speed garage, or whatever you call it. However, it’s fair to say that we haven’t seen the charts troubled by garage, which is a crying shame – until now! Zayn Malik – the…
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GAIKA – UK electronic music’s hybrid of Basquiat and Prince (no pressure, Gaika) – has a new track out called ‘PIÑATA’ on Big Dada. Always super interesting and often defying categorisation (hence the Basquiat/Prince thing just now) there’s a new LP due in September called ‘Drift’. The new track was made alongside Kidä and is…
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Fall Out Boy have covered Billy Joel and they’ve updated the lyrics. WAIT WHAT! HOW DARE THEY etc etc. Listen, we geddit. And we’re no fans of Fall Out Boy per se, but wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. This is kinda daft fun, and you need to hear Pete Wentz out…
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You may have read that headline and thought we were poking fun at the Teenage Fanclub, but rest assured, if everything makes all feel well in the world, it’s the Teenage Fanclub making Teenage Fanclubby music. They have a new song out called ‘Tired Of Being Alone’ and it’s got Teenage Fanclub guitars, Teenage Fanclub…
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To many, King Curtis is the emotional saxophone at the start of Withnail & I, as his take on ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’ drifts over the two unfortunate souls in ’60s London. To others, he’s the blistering sound that made Aretha’s ‘Respect’ pop so hard, as well as ‘Yakety Yak’ by The Coasters and…
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WHY DO WE NEED TAYLOR SWIFT TO BE GAY?
Right now, we’ve never had so many gay and queer people in the world. Think of the past – it was outlawed, then we had people dying of AIDS, and rampant homophobia saw that when gay people weren’t hiding, they were dying. Society has progressed however, and now we’re afforded the beautiful site of openly…
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TY SEGALL LIKES DOGS
Ty Segall likes dogs. Everyone likes dogs don’t they? Handy really, as Ty’s new song is about exactly that. You get a points deduction if you said ‘do you like dogs’ in that voice that Brad Pitt does in that film, by the way. You’re better than that, c’mon. Anyway, this new song is called…
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DAVID NANCE GARAGE JANGLE
David Nance (careful with the spelling of his surname there) & Mowed Sound have a new song out and, on first impression, we like it. It’s called ‘Mock The Hours’ and it’s a mix of garage goodness and jangly roots pop. He’s from Omaha we gather, and this is his first with new group Mowed…
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FIRST DATES, FOLK, BRIAN PROTHEROE
First Dates has started a new series on Channel 4 and honestly, we don’t watch it anymore. Not because it’s bad – we’ve just got other stuff on. However, the mere mention of the show reminds us of one of our favourite songs – ‘Pinball’ by Brian Protheroe. Protheroe has been the narrator of the…
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