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Little Richard has long been adored, but he never truly got his flowers like many of his contemporaries did. That’s about to change. And about fucking time. Director Lisa Cortés’ has made a documentary about the greatest rock ‘n’ roll singer of all time called ‘Little Richard: I Am Everything’, which not only looks at…
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Cameron Crowe – you know him from the brilliant but don’t think too hard about it or it ends up feeling a bit problematic Almost Famous – is apparently doing a movie about Joni Mitchell. Now, Joni is the realest of the real, so this feels long overdue, however, movies about musicians are often not…
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And that’s a good thing. Don’t worry about it.
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Mega Bog. That’s a mad band name isn’t it? They’re a band on Mexican Summer and largely speaking, that’s a record label you can trust. Well, Mega Bog have a new track out called ‘Love Is’ and it’s a tremendous, neon, shimmery thing that you’ll like. Erin Birgy from the band says of Westerman’s appearance…
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Don’t do it. It’s lame and lazy.
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Fans of drinking pints and classic Electro compilations – this is a niche but perfect article for you! For the 40th anniversary of the legendary comps, there’s some special beer being brewed, and boy, the whole thing is handsome and great. The beer is made by Deviant & Dandy who are an independent brewery producing…
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There’s a lot of doom-laden music knocking around at the moment. The magnificent and downright frightening Lankum have a new LP out and culty GOAT have been weirding everyone out again. Now, it’s the turn of Dorthia Cottrell who has a creeptacular psychedelic track out called ‘Harvester’. You assume this isn’t about filling your boots…
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These K-Pop bands are a massive, multi-million dollar business and on one hand, it’s great to see young pop fans getting into music that is spoken in something that isn’t English. However, there’s a big problem – what’s with all the Nazi stuff?! The most recent news concerns Chaeyoung who is a member of Twice.…
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If you asked ‘Missy who?’ after reading that headline, then maybe this isn’t the website for you. Anyway, there’s been a lot of noise around FLO this past year, and Pop Justice’s Peter Robinson is a fan and genuinely, that’s something you should always take notice of. They won a BRIT Award, so they’re absolutely…
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Initially, this article was just going to be a video of a very tired, very angry baby. We bailed on the idea, because that one time someone reviewed a Jet LP with nothing more than a video of a chimp drinking it’s own piss was effectively the pinnacle of that kind of thing, and has…
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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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CHROMEO NEW ONE SOUNDS JUST LIKE YOU WANT IT TO
Chromeo are great aren’t they? They know how to have fun, and honestly, they were on the ’80s boogie and yacht rock tip long before a lot of bands decided to get on those genres. Well, they’re back and sounding great and have a new LP due called ‘Adult Contemporary’. It’s not out ’til next…
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MAC DEMARCO + ITALO POP LEGEND
If you’re a fan of Italo pop, then you will have absolutely found yourself dancing to Ryan Paris’ ‘Dolce Vita’. It’s a classic of the genre. It’s basically a perfect little europop song. If you haven’t heard it, let’s fix that before cracking on with the current news relating to it. If the headline didn’t…
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