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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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That’s it – we’ve basically completed 2025, so save a few surprise drops, all we have to do now is dig into Christmas music and familiar party songs on the work’s do and down the local. It’s good stuff, whether you celebrate god or not. You’ve read the round-up of songs, now it is time
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R&B is obviously a much more broad church than people give the genre credit for, but it almost seems unfair to brand Dawn Richard’s music that tag. And she’s at it again, being one of the most unique and interesting artists around right now. “The track is the kind of confidence that only I can
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There’s a lot of stuff knocking around passing itself off as psychedelic music these days with little more than a wibbly synth and a gentle fuzz guitar. That means, when something genuinely psychedelic crops up, you need to hold it close and give it water and attention. With that, we go to the magical sound
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And so it begins – like copyright law, legal action over sampling, and getting into the nooks and crannies of interpolation with ‘Blurred Lines’ – and now, it’s the turn of artificial intelligence – it was always going to happen. This is coming from the camp of Jorja Smith as her record label has said
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What a year it’s been. We’ve have the president of the United States of America calling people names while desperately trying to distance himself from a list of wealthy people who were quite probably up to no good with a convicted sex offender who mysteriously died in custody. We’ve had one billionaire so lonely that
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PET SHOP BOYS TV
Are you at the age were you look forward to a reason to stay in on a Saturday night? You’re in luck, because BBC Two will be devoting a Saturday evening to the Pet Shop Boys, so you know that’s going to be excellent! This Saturday (20th May) from 19:35, you’ll get a compilation show…
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LISTEN TO RYUICHI SAKAMOTO’S LAST PLAYLIST
The late Japanese composer and Yellow Magic Orchestra founder Ryuichi Sakamoto’s management have shared the last playlist compiled by the late, great musician. Calling it ‘Ryuichi’s Last Playlist’, they wrote: “We would like to share the playlist that Ryuichi had been privately compiling to be played at his own funeral to accompany his passing. He…
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SBTRKT: THE RAT ROAD
When SBTRKT were around last time, they were known for their forward thinking dancefloor chuggers, designed for those kids who weren’t necessarily into dance music and a bit frightened of Techno Lads on pills, but still wanted to scuff their sneakers up on the dirty dancefloors. ‘Pharaohs’ and ‘Wildlife’ were solid gold bangers, but in…
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DOLLY GOES A LITTLE BIT ROCK, A LITTLE BIT ROLL
Dolly Parton is great fun and it doesn’t matter if her new music is good or bad, because she’s a wonderful woman to have around. In super silly news, she’s announced she’s going rock. And because she’s fucking Dolly fucking Parton and she can do whatever the fuck she wants, she’s basically assembled an eye-watering…
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