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  • SO, KACEY MUSGRAVES THEN

    Never mind Tay Tay announcing a new LP – we can ignored that as everyone has already talked it to death already. We’re more interested in the imminent music from the mighty Kacey Musgraves. She’s been making a slow-melting psychedelic country music since her utterly fabulous ‘Golden Hour’ album (yes, that wasn’t her debut, but

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  • GET FONTEYN NOW OR YOU’LL REGRET IT

    Look, we were all set to write and long love letter to Fonteyn’s utterly perfect LP ‘Trip The Light Fantastic’, even though it’s not a new release, because it really is one of the most wonderful records you’re likely to hear. The reason we were hesitating is purely selfish, and that was because we didn’t

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  • 639 YEAR PERFORMANCE CHANGES CHORD

    As well you know – John Cage is a little bugger. One of his most famous compositions is a silent piece, but another that we’re mildly obsessed by is called ‘As Slow As Possible’ – and that’s because it’s a piece that, on completion, it will have been performed for 639 years. Yesterday, the piece

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  • REVIEW / DINA ÖGON / ORION

    We’ve talked about our love for Dina Ögon at length before, and now there’s a new LP to talk about, and that’s the salve we needed to kick off 2024’s first new release review. Again, we find the band in groovy, sophisticated form, melting psychedelic soul, Balearic, dream pop, and something so uniquely their own,

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  • WE DON’T WANT TO WRITE ABOUT THE GRAMMIES

    All the news today is about The Grammies and that’s super boring. Sure, there’s a new song from SZA and Killer Mike got arrested, but that’s not really what we want to write about today. Seeing as there’s no other news, we’re just going to share this video of loads of people having a massive

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  • IS PATREON THE FUTURE OF MUSIC?

    As the future of being a working musician looks increasingly bleak, collectively we need to work out a way of getting people paid. If we don’t, that means music will only be viable for people who have parents with blue links in their Wikipedia pages and the like. So, with micropayments and subscriptions becoming more

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  • STRFKR NEW SONG

    There’s a new song from STRFKR (hey! That’s a naughty word hidden in there!) called ‘Under Water / In Air’ and it’s a very breezy, poppy bedroom indie song that sounds real nice on a Sunday morning. STRFKR’s Josh Hodges sez: “It was probably one of the most collaborative songs on the record. It started

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  • PREV UNRELEASED DAFT PUNK LP?

    There’s no point pretending you don’t like Daft Punk. They’re ace. Disco, bug-eyed filter funk, squelching nonsense and big ol’ doof doofs – they’re a barrel of fun and wear cool masks! Just because they had hits that were omnipotent doesn’t mean those hits weren’t wonderful! Now, we all know that Daft Punk split up

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  • DEVO RARE STUFF

    Good news Devo fans! You will soon be able to buy a fancy vinyl package of your fave art-punk boneheads, and it’s called ‘Art Devo 1973-1977’ and will be a 3xLP set, comprised of early stuff, rare stuff, previously unreleased stuff – one for the completists and nerds. Nice. It’s out April 19th and the

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  • RYAN LESLIE BACK WITH THE STUDIO VIDS

    When Ryan Leslie is on form, he’s hard to beat. From ‘Diamond Girl’ to ‘I-R-I-N-A’, to ‘You’re Not My Girl’ and ‘Addiction’, R-Les was serving up bangers that were big, but should’ve been made even bigger. His production work with other artists was hot stuff too, with the mega ‘Long Way 2 Go’ with Cassie,

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  • THIS WISHY TRACK IS FUN

    It’s nice to see the return of noisy indie music. We’re not sure if this is classic college rock, shoegaze or what. It doesn’t really matter as we’re imagining the sound of Wishy cascading over us from a small stage, and it feels real nice. They’re from Indiana and we don’t know too much about…

  • DANIEL ÖGREN VINYL

    Mr Bongo put good records out, and the latest we’ve spotted is a gem from Daniel Ögren, who you might know from our newest favourite band Dina Ögon. Available on special magenta vinyl (and standard obvs), Ögren’s ‘Fastingen-92′ was initially put out on a limited pressing in 2020, and now Mr Bongo have reissued the…

  • THE BIRTH OF PUNK IN NYC

    Wanna watch something cool? You’re in luck. Amplified have shared a documentary on YouTube about the start of the New York City punk scene. All the faces you want to see are there – Iggy, Debbie, The Ramones, and talking heads from Jayne County, Alice Cooper, Lenny Kaye, Alan Vega and loads more. From non…

  • LÉNA C AUTUMN MIX

    Léna C has exquisite taste in music and been playing cosmic DJ sets all over the place for a while now. She’s also making her own music which has been tickling our pickle, but right now, we’re focusing on her DJing as she’s released a gorgeous Autumnal mix which is really setting the mood now…

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