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There’s been a study undertaken that could show how humans first started getting into music as a species, and we were into it first. The study suggests that Madagascan lemurs used music for a variety of purposes, which could give insight in how humans evolved into creating music, but we prefer the early stuff. Co-author…
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Look, we don’t quite know what’s happening but we’ll share the news all the same. On Brian Wilson’s Instagram page, it basically says that coming this Friday, is ‘Ding Dang’. We had a little search on Google for ‘Brian Wilson Ding Dang’, and all it came up with was a link to his website which sadly…
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Allegra Krieger is new to us, so we won’t pretend we know loads about her and just crib notes from other websites like we do. All we know is that there’s a new single out called ‘Never Arriving’ and its a kind of country tinged indie rock that sounds pretty cool. There’s been releases before,…
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There’s going to be a final album from hyper-pop trailblazer SOPHIE, three years on from their untimely death. It’ll be an eponymous affair, and there’s a new song called ‘Reason Why’ which features Kim Petras and BC Kingdom. The album will be released on September 27th, and a statement from SOPHIE’s family reads: “When we,…
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There’s always a danger with Kehlani that her brand of R&B reads too much Tumblr. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but her seam of through-thought can occasionally focus a little heavily on who she’s making eyes at, identity and poor decision making in love and lust. It’s a common complaint of R&B at large,…
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We love the Coco & Clair Clair LP (we reviewed it here) for its hyper It Girl meanness and weird party vibe. Well, great news is that they’re back with a new single called ‘Aggy’ and they’re being all aloof and constantly online, but this time, the trap-lite beats have been replaced with a soft…
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One of the finest albums ever recorded is available after years of being hidden away in the shape of the effortlessly wonderful eponymous album from Peru’s, We All Together. Originally released in 1972, featuring some beautiful Wings covers and a load of killer original material, the LP is the greatest Beatle-inspired cuts ever recorded, with…
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Euphoric melancholy is one of the true pillars of pop, giving listeners the chance to dance the pain out of their feet and let all the air leave their body while they joyfully singalong with something that might be upsetting. ABBA were the masters of it, and pretty much the whole of soul music. It’s…
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The ’00s are pure back, so get out the Mcat and Breezers, because it’s time to ruin your fat laces in your trainers and wear too much eye-liner and dance to the new one where Jamie XX and Robyn have teamed up. And it’s a whole load of fun too, don’t you worry about that.…
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Honey Gentry has featured on these pages before and we’re very into the baroque, creeped out pastoral Americana she’s producing. And so to her take on the Queens of the Stone Age song, ‘Go With The Flow’. Bands don’t normally veer too far from the source material (which is a shame), but on this, the…
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VID: PAYOLA SCANDAL, FUN!
If you’re sat there, wishing there wasn’t all this writing that needed reading (even though our longest articles are 4 minuters at worst), and that someone would just do a good video you could watch instead, then let us share the work of someone else who we really enjoyed. Over at Bandsplaining (great name), they…
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KINKS TOUR, PLEASE
Look, we’ve already written a love letter to The Kinks on here, so it should be of no surprise that we’re in full-blown love affair mode right now. That’s because The Kinks are teasing something of a comeback. They’ve apparently got a number of songs written and obviously, Ray and Dave Davies have a complicated…
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HOW A POLITICAL JAPANESE ’60S HIT INFLUENCED THE WHOLE OF HIP HOP
Back in 1961, a young singer by the name of Kyu Sakamoto had a number one hit on his hands, Stateside. The song – a lilting ballad sung entirely in Japanese (thereby being one of a scant number of non-English sung hits in the US) – was called 上を向いて歩こう, or in English, ‘I Look Up…
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SLEAFORD MODS, EH?
So. Sleaford Mods, eh? They have found themselves in a situation. You’ve already read about it elsewhere. You have probably seen their updated stance on The Whole Thing, right? What to think? Well, a lot of the punks are really unhappy with them and expected them to have more spin. The centrists dads totally get…
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