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While thick people enjoy the fruits of artificial intelligence, everyone is left rolling their eyes and tightening their fists. Either way, the tech is outpacing any human response to it, and it’s making a real mess in the process. Take for example, some songs appearing on Spotify impersonating King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, and
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We’re big fans of Yunè Pinku, which is how we stumbled into the new one from Sassy 009, who happen to have their debut album coming out next month (in January 2026, if you’re not reading this hot off the press). The album is called ‘Dreamer+’, and the new Pinku featuring single is called ‘Mirrors’,
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Canada’s Marie Davidson released some highly rated bits this year, and typically, we completely missed the boat. Her ‘City of Clowns’ has been in for a lot of praise and she’s ending the year with a track from it called ‘Fun Times’. She says of it: “While touring City Of Clowns, I stumbled on a
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It can be difficult spotting just who is the most dynamic DJ bursting through the ranks, but when you listen to the sets of Kitty Amor, it’s pretty obvious and immediate that we’ve got someone who isn’t just another plug-in-and-play type. Afrohouse has been growing upwards and outwards, especially around London, but Kitty’s sets are
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“I’m not a citizen of America. Isn’t that crazy?” Those are the words of Nicki Minaj, to her fans in a livestream, some years ago. “I was born on a beautiful island called Trinidad and Tobago. But I’ve been in the States for many years. You would think that with the millions of dollars that
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If you’re looking for a Christmas present for the raver in your life, there’s a fabulous book out dedicated to the legendary Bugged Out! It’s a limited run, so don’t hang around – 3,000 copies and selling quickly. Tony Wilson (jesus, him again) notoriously said of Bugged Out!: “There was The Twisted Wheel in the
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Need a Christmas playlist that’s got a mix of good music with camp, silly stuff? One that’s cosy, has familiar songs, as well as ones that’ll be new to you? One that you can stick on while having a drink with friends or wrapping presents? Well, get stuck into this one, which features Rotary Connection,
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Alex Horne has a band called The Horne Section and of course, is the creator of Taskmaster, so his brain works a little differently. For charity, he’s singing live for a whole 24 hours doing a version of Ace’s ‘How Long’, which is really funny. Horne and his band, along with some guests, are doing
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Israel’s participation in Eurovision continues to create woes for the song contest organisers as countries boycott the summer event due to take place from May 12th at Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria. This of course, feels very much like a problem entirely of the making of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) themselves, given that they’ve stopped the likes of Russia
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You’ve heard ‘Afternoon Tea’ by The Kinks, right? You should’ve as it’s great. Obviously, since the band were stopped from entering the United States for a host of reasons, where the soft Yanks would have such hooligans in town while Woodstock was on, The Kinks leaned into their Englishness. The albums during that period were
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GONZO SUPER FURRIES FILM
Rejoice Super Furry Animals fans! A rarely seen ‘road movie’ featuring your furry friends on tour and in the studio and all that good stuff. It’ll be screened on YouTube for one-time only (bootleggers ears pricking up there) and you can join SFA at 8pm on Friday September 15th. This is all part of a…
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GOLDEN APPLES NEW ONE IS COOL
There’s a lot of sad music around at the moment. Understandable really, but largely, we’d prefer to focus on things that pull us out of the dumps for a couple of minutes at a time, even if it’s only sonically. A track that put some pep in our step is the new one from Golden…
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WATCH THE TALKING HEADS REUNION
As we’ve previously mentioned, Talking Heads were sharing a stage together again, and thankfully, it happened! They stepped on-stage together at the Toronto Film Festival last night for a Q&A about the re-do of ‘Stop Making Sense’ and mercifully, someone’s uploaded a hooky video of it. Thanks la! Previously, guitarist Jerry Harrison had said that…
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PSYCHEDELIC SPACE NOISE FROM MILDRED MAUDE
What’s in the water down Cornwall? They love a bit of noise down there mixed in with head-melting psychedelic business. We’re not talking about Aphex, but rather, improv noise band Mildred Maude who have a new EP out. The track we’re sharing below is called ‘Shifting’ and is taken from ‘Microclimates’ and if you like…
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