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They’re mean. Every track is a diss track. Against who? Someone with receding hair. Someone boring. Copycats. Cluck clucking bitches. Waking up at 8am. You name it, they’re over it already. Like over exposed Instax shots at some NY loft party circa 2005, like early mixtape culture mixed with Kreayshawn’s Internet savvy, obscure electronica 45s,…
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Hey look! Some new music from the Lemon Twigs. And they’re in dreamy mode, with an achingly lovely number called ‘Corner Of My Eye’, channelling all that lovely ’60s and ’70s music that they always do. This is the first new bit of music we’ve had from the precocious D’Addario brothers in a couple of…
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There’s been a lot of talk about artificial intelligence and, honestly, despite only being a matter of weeks old, we’ve considered getting AI to write all our articles for us, because sometimes it seems that social media is made mostly of bot accounts, so we may as well them them all talk to each other,…
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It is funny how society ends up accepting what they once thought was evil and scary. Look at Iron Maiden – once accused of being satan worshippers and slaughtering your daughter and all that. Now, they’ve got their own beer and one of them flies other celebrities on his plane and all that. Now, they’re…
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You’ve seen Daft Punk without their masks on right? You’re either old enough and saw them live before they got famous enough to afford their fancy robot personas, or you’ve used the internet before and have a curious mind. If not, and it never occurred to you to have a search – good for you…
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If you’ve been pining over some cutnpaste goodtime house adjacent music, where are you going to go apart from maybe your old Avalanches LP, Ross From Friends, and maybe some lo-fi mixes on YouTube? Well, turns out theres a mysterious new artist on the block with a wilfully silly name that we can’t get mad…
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You’re one of the most famous singer songwriters on the planet, and you bustle into a record store late night, and you’re Neil Young holding bootleg copies of stuff you’re on. Hoo boy. The video below is exactly that, and the guy behind the counter is a genuinely great supporting character, seemingly not fussed that…
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Yungblud thinks sex will “save the world”, while also very much having a nose like a two-pin plug. The singer, who you look at and just want to poke a travel adapter in before you trying charging your phone up, insists that the “expression and freedom” of making sweet, sweet shags, is a sure fire…
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Rita Ora’s life seems exhausting, honestly. Like treading water, she has to keep the grind up possibly more than a lot of her peers, from which you can draw your own conclusions. Her work ethic is very strong, that much is clear, as she scrambles over the bones of pop and celebrity culture. Does anyone…
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It is incredibly easy to be mildly irritated by Taylor Swift, but no-one is forcing anyone to like or dislike her here, because we’re not really talking about her music or her personality here. This is something else. This is about records, and buying LPs is good. Her recent LP ‘Midnights’ – which we haven’t…
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LISTEN TO DAVID MCALMONT TALK ABOUT YES AND OTHER THINGS
‘Yes’ by McAlmont and Butler is, without doubt, one of the finest songs of the Nineties, melding the melodrama of 60s girl groups, Britpop and Glam, Scott Walker, show tunes and everything that is truly great about pure, anthemic pop music. Well, David has sat down with Jake Shears for the Queer the Music podcast,…
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MIXCLOUD ROUND-UP
We are big fans of Mixcloud on this site – so much so that we upload our own radio show to it. It’s one of the best places to have algorithm-free listening and find new music to listen to. We’re not on the payroll – we’re not influential enough for that, and you know it.…
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SUSANNA HOFFS NEW STUFF
Power Pop princess, all-round good egg and Bangles co-founder Susanna Hoffs has some new music coming out, and that’s always worth celebrating isn’t it? You bet your sweet ass it is! So, what’s going on? This isn’t a new Bangs record, rather, she’s putting out ‘The List’, which is her first release of entirely new…
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SUNO LOSES COURTCASE / A.I. STUFF
You can almost hear the knuckleheads saying ‘how is A.I. learning from all the music ever made any different to humans listening to music and learning from it?’, but, A.I. music scraper/generator Suno has lost a copyright case against German licensing firm GEMA. Back in 2025, GEMA filed an infringement case, saying that Suno was…
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