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We’re very much about the R&B love of housey bangers thing at the moment, and a new fave is the new track from Shygirl with the wonderfully titled ‘thicc’. A tribute to everyone’s favourite cut – the thigh meat, if you will. Listen, if you’re still moping around to dour music in 2023, then you’re…
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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…
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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’…
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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…
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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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Frank Ocean is not a reliable source. That’s not a criticism per se, but it is something of a fact given the amount of times he’s done things his own way, shied away from the churn of pop culture, and all the rest. We only mention that because you should at least be allowed to…
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Look, there’s no point pretending that the soul music released during the 1970s isn’t one of mankind’s greatest ever achievements. With that in mind, it’s not surprising that so many artists draw inspiration from that period. Sinkane’s new one – in tandem with Tru Osborne – is exactly that, and called ‘Everything Is Everything’ and…
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Tierra Whack makes ace music and has confirmed that a new LP is on the way. She has a new single out to whet our whistles in the meantime, and it’s called ‘Chanel Pit’ and it’s a stop-start banger that has echoes of prime Missy Elliott on the drum machine beat, if more trappy sparse.…
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We ranked every Girls Aloud single simply because we love them. We’d like to say we had inside information on them making a comeback, but we didn’t. We could pretend we did, but honesty is in such short supply in music journalism that we’re not going to try putting you on. The thing is though,…
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The sister to The Pop Corps is the Free Range radio show, which is available online for your listening pleasure whenever you like. Next month of course, will be an End Of Year affair, where we look at the best music released in 2023. We’ve covered a lot of the songs over the months on…
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OLDIES ARE STRANGLING NEW BANDS
People are listening to more music than ever, which is great isn’t it? And we told you vinyl sales are up too. Interestingly, looking at the sales and graphs, 2023 saw women at the front, with huge sales from Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Ice Spice, and more. In the weeds of all the data, there’s…
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REST EASY, LES MCCANN
Jazz legend and fusion pioneer Les McCann, has left the building. Jazzers loved him, and so to did hip hop royalty, being sampled by some of the greats on numerous famous works. He was 88 years old, so we’ll raise a glass and share some of his music so you can pay the greatest of…
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JUSTICE BACK WITH SKUZZ
French house is great isn’t it? Rubbery filtered funk and head-mashing skuzz daftness! Well, if Indie Sleaze is threatening a comeback, and all things being cyclical, here come Justice right on cue and there’s going to be new music from the pair this year! We know this because we were looking at their social media,…
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HOPE FOR 2024?
We’ve waved goodbye to 2023. It was weird. Now we’ve got 2024, which is shaping up to be just as weird and war torn. What does that all mean for pop culture and music? We’re hopeful. See, if anything, we’re all getting acclimatised to just how bleak everything is. That’s not to say there won’t…
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