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It’s pretty unassuming to have two plastic lawn chairs, sat empty for the cover of your newest LP, but Bad Bunny’s ‘DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS’ isn’t just any album – he has made a career best, just as latin, reggaeton flavoured global pop felt like it may have been on the cusp of waning. The…
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Remember all those people, January 6th 2024, loudly asking for Mike Pence to be hung? Well, the right side of America’s aisle doesn’t because they’re once again up-in-arms (when are they not? Soft arses) because someone they didn’t like the look of said something they didn’t like the sound of. The person in question is…
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Tataloo is an Iranian singer and, once upon a time, he was deemed culturally significant enough to be used by ultra conservative politicians to get the ear of the nation’s liberal youth. However, a court in Iran has decided that the performer should be executed, after an appeal against a five year prison sentence. Amir…
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Have you heard Ted Lucas’ eponymous acid-folk LP from 1975? It’s super good and, if you’re not able to get your mitts on an original copy, the good news is that there’ll be a reissue that’s more readily available. The album is getting reissued next month through the labour-of-love’ists at Third Man, and as well…
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Not many people reach the age of 101, and even fewer of them can say they’re releasing their first solo album at that age. Then again, not many people are Sun Ra Arkestra’s irrepressible bandleader Marshall Allen. He’ll be releasing his first solo cut and to whet your appetite, here’s a new track from him…
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The Convenience are new to us, but we just listened to ‘I Got Exactly What I Needed’, and it really tickled our pickle. It might tickle yours too! The group are made up of Nick Corson and Duncan Troast, who have apparently worked with Drugdealer and others. Instead of being Beatlesy power pop, their stuff…
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Paramore have been all conquering in recent years, and now, they’ve joined forces to help the release of Hayley Williams’ grandfather, who has an album out which he recorded in the ’70s. Rusty Williams is now nearly 80s, and recorded his album decades ago, and they’re singer-songwritery, folkie, West Coast mellow goodness. They’ve been unreleased this…
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Beef. Settling scores. Getting personal. Whatever you want to call it, music is littered with musicians communicating in the only way they know how – through song. We tend to think of hip hop when we think of such things, but there’s loads of diss tracks in other genres too. Musicians, eh? They’re a rum…
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Remember Drake throwing out a lawsuit, snitching on Kendrick and Universal Music Group, in one of the most laughed-out-of-town events of 2024? The lawsuit was dissected by lawyers online, and everyone suggested it was all a terrible idea. Well, the Canadian performer claimed that the success of ‘Not Like Us’ had been “artificially inflated” in…
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A lot of post punk stuff has really switched us off in recent years, so it’s nice to hear a motorik beat that is super fun! And that’s thanks to Horsegirl who have a new Cate Le Bon produced single out called ‘Switch Over’. The group are releasing their second LP called ‘Phonetics On and…
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AN AMBIENT BOX OF JOY
Do you like ambient music? Fun gadgets? Technology that springs joy rather than necessity? You need to know about the FM3 Buddha Machine. Pre-smartphone dependency, these gorgeous devices played slow, simple music that’s like a futuristic music box. Soothing, calming music from a box designed to only do just that. Brian Eno, David Byrne and…
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STEVIE NICKS X BARBIE
Mattel will be releasing a limited edition Stevie Nicks Barbie doll, which is certainly going to sell like hot-cakes. Stevie Nicks said on the socials: “My Stevie Barbie has been with me now for several months. When Mattel came to me asking if I would like to have a Barbie made in the “Rumours” cover…
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IN YOUR INBOX
Because you don’t want to have to keep remembering to check what’s going on at The Pop Corps, remembering to click a link in an Instagram story, we’re in the middle of setting up a Pop Corps Substack. Basically, that means once a week, you’ll get a digest version of what’s been on the site,…
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GET TO KNOW MYRIAM GENDRON
If you’re a fan of intimate, killer folk, then you’re going to love Miriam Gendron. Her ‘Not So Deep As A Well’ album came out in 2014 and quickly became a cult classic and hard to get your hands on. Well, it’s being re-issued (and available for the first time in Europe) on 17th November…
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