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  • CLASSIC COUNTRY FROM MIDLAND

    They’re AM Radio friendly country music, that’s for sure – but Midland sure know how to rock a look. They’re all Nudie suits and big hats and in the slick country universe, they’re about as classic country rock as you can get. The trio have a new single out called ‘Lucky Sometimes’ and will feature…

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  • MUSIC JOURNALISM ON THE ROPES AGAIN

    When we launched THEPOPCORPS, we fully intended to make no money. That was 100% the business model. No sponsorships, no kind editorials in exchange for goods and services from PR companies and record labels. No free tickets. No free albums. You’re more likely to give an honest review when you’re using your own money and…

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  • ROCKIN’ NASHVILLE WITH JD MCPHERSON

    There’s something in the lizard bit of our brain that just loves a song that sounds like it should be played late and way too loud in a dive bar somewhere. These songs don’t need to reinvent the wheel – they need to be good, honest rock ‘n’ roll, whatever stripe of rock that is.…

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  • LONGPLAYER WITH THAT 70S GOOD GOOD

    It seems that there’s a bit of a cottage industry around Drugdealer, where anyone related to them in any way is putting out sepia-toned ’70s pop, which is obviously a good thing. Are the returns a wholesale great thing? We dunno, but it’s always worth tuning in for honestly, given the strength of the second…

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  • THEPOPCORPS WAS INTO LEMUR MUSIC BEFORE IT WAS BIG

    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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  • BRIAN WILSON’S DING DANG IS COMING

    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 KREIGER’S COUNTRY INFUSED INDIE

    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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  • POSTHUMOUS SOPHIE LP

    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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  • REVIEW / KEHLANI / CRASH

    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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  • JAMILA WOODS IS BACK, BABY

    Jamila Woods, for our money, is sorely underrated in the R&B game. She rarely missed and, in welcome news for our ears, she’s back with a great new song called ‘Good News’. There’ll be a new LP called ‘Water Made Us’ on October 13th, and if it’s anything like her last one ‘LEGACY! LEGACY!’, we’re…

  • DID YOU KNOW DIRE STRAITS WENT THIS HARD?

    Sure, you’ve heard Dire Straits ‘Walk Of Life’ a million times over. It’s a Dadrock masterpiece. It’s got that thin synth organ and boogie guitar, but did you know how hard it went live? Let’s not get bogged down in the whys and the whens, and just get straight into it – this is one…

  • 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…

  • 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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