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There’s been a lot of chatter around Luke Combs’ hit cover of ‘Fast Car’, a lot of furrowed brows and people wafting their forks pensively at dinner parties, about whether a country singer should be doing a song by a woman of colour, a woman people assume is gay (look, she might be, but she’s
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In the corporate world, there’s this terrible pair of words that people use – “proactive” versus “reactive”. There’s something in it though, because we all know that there’s two types of people in the world. The first is someone who creates a parameter for a fun Spotify playlist. Maybe they come up with a scenario
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Beth Gibbons is one of the good ones. Never needlessly hurried, she’s made incredible music with Portishead, and of course, she’s done other work like the folkie numbers with Rustin Man and Paul Webb. Well, she is back again with her debut solo LP ‘Lives Outgrown’. “As usual it reflects what’s been going on with
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Lana Del Rey has a new LP coming out called ‘Lasso’, which means she’s going country, and honestly, it’s a move that feels right doesn’t it? Long an admirer of the aesthetic of faded glamour, big hair and broken women, Hollywood and rhinestones, Lana’s version of country music is likely to be that good kinda
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They’ve chirpsed half your mates, given three of them STDs and referred to every single one of their exes as ‘mental’, and they got promoted at the bar they worked at, in part, for coming up with a mildly successful drink, in part because they’re willing to get bags in midweek and split them with
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TikTok are new media, and by and large, record companies are resolutely middle aged. With that, social media and physical media are going to be at loggerheads, and this time, it’s Universal Music who are at it, and they’re going to pull all their music from TikTok in the coming days, after failing to reach
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We’ve all felt that unswerving love for an artist that makes us want to leap to their defence at the mere mention of their name, because you’re bored of everyone slagging them off. Hashing it out down the pub is one of music’s great theatrical events, but thanks to terminally online culture, lines can be
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Caoilfhionn Rose is one of the most original and brilliant voices in modern acid folk, and her newest track ‘Rainfall’ feels like just the tonic for a cure to the wintertime blues. It’s a shimmering, hazy, psychedelic slice of loveliness and, for anyone who has heard her music before, that will come as no surprise
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Not every day is a new day. Sometimes, you just have to accept that, but then remember that there’s things we forgot to mention. Like our latest radio show, which came out recently. It’s not time sensitive, so you can listen to it whenever you like. Great music from all over the world, with an
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Grazia are an indie garage glam punk pop band from London, and they’ve got a stomper out called ‘Cheap’, which tells you everything you need to know about what’s coming when you press play. And it’s great fun! Their debut EP is out in Feb, and that’s called ‘In Poor Taste’ – catching the vibe
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WATCH THE MUSIC OF LENNON AND MCCARTNEY
The great thing about dorks uploading stuff to YouTube is that us nerds can mainline all the stuff that won’t get repeated on the box. One fun thing we watched is a 1965 Granada special called The Music of Lennon & McCartney. It’s a special looking at other artists performing Beatle music (as well as…
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ROGER WATERS TALKS ABOUT A DUCK
Roger Waters has lost his goddamn mind. We all knew that. He’s been off the deep-end for years, but this latest bout is kinda funny and we’re not in the mood for getting into the serious stuff this week, what with the world being so depressingly heavy. So what’s he been up to? Well, he…
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SLY STONE / MEMOIR
Its criminal that, broadly speaking, Sly Stone is not in all the conversations about living legends in music. It’s hard to understate the massive influence on pop music that Sly & The Family Stone had. Melting rock with soul, inventing slap bass, spearheading funk, fusing jazz with psychedelia – they’re one of the greatest bands…
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KIDS LISTEN TO MORE RADIO THAN LIVE TELLY
It was always thought that the internet was the new telly, making telly relevant but kinda outdated, becoming the new radio. That makes radio what then? Then new papyrus? Seems everyone’s been a bit hasty as there’s been a report that’s been shared that shows that people aged 18-34 are listening to more radio than…
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