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Stereolab fans, rejoice! That’s because Laetitia Sadier is doing some stuff, and while it’s not a reformation of your fave French Library record enthusiasts, it’ll do for now, right? Because obviously, she’s not gone Death Metal or anything. It sounds enough like Stereolab to scratch that itch you have for them. She’s got an LP
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The hipster’s faves A24 are doing something. They’re doing something with the hipster’s faves, Talking Heads. And it involves Paramore too. Man, people are probably doing social media posts saying ‘I’M SCREAMING’ and ‘ACTUALLY SOBBING’ and all that jarring bullshit, aren’t they? Not to say that this won’t be a heap of fun, mind you.
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It’s really great when you can hear how much ambition there is in a song. We’re not talking about tedious effort, but rather, someone really really trying to make something fantastic. And that’s exactly what we’re feeling about the new one from Sheer Mag, which is a massive pop-indie stomper. It’s called ‘Moonstruck’ and honestly,
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Right now, we’ve never had so many gay and queer people in the world. Think of the past – it was outlawed, then we had people dying of AIDS, and rampant homophobia saw that when gay people weren’t hiding, they were dying. Society has progressed however, and now we’re afforded the beautiful site of openly
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Ty Segall likes dogs. Everyone likes dogs don’t they? Handy really, as Ty’s new song is about exactly that. You get a points deduction if you said ‘do you like dogs’ in that voice that Brad Pitt does in that film, by the way. You’re better than that, c’mon. Anyway, this new song is called
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David Nance (careful with the spelling of his surname there) & Mowed Sound have a new song out and, on first impression, we like it. It’s called ‘Mock The Hours’ and it’s a mix of garage goodness and jangly roots pop. He’s from Omaha we gather, and this is his first with new group Mowed
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First Dates has started a new series on Channel 4 and honestly, we don’t watch it anymore. Not because it’s bad – we’ve just got other stuff on. However, the mere mention of the show reminds us of one of our favourite songs – ‘Pinball’ by Brian Protheroe. Protheroe has been the narrator of the
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While overground rap has been a bit off and a lot of the critic faves have been a bit Old Head, you know hip hop’s underground is always cooking something up. Philly’s Skrilla has just put something out that’s evil and drill hot, just how we like it. While many MCs have relied on a
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DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ – what’s to say other than they’re mysterious and the music is great? We’ll add that, in the brief correspondence we’ve had, they’re very funny and unswervingly lovely too. We can’t give you the gossip on their real identity though, because it’s all in the DMs. We considered writing a
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David Corio kickstarted his career fresh out of university, freelancing for the weeklies and music rags in 1978. While in London, he began to take portraits and going to shows, and in part, he focused on reggae musicians. He’s no slouch – Corio’s portraits find themselves in the National Portrait Gallery, the V&A, the National
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JANELLE MONAE IS BACK, BABY
Janelle Monae has had an interesting career and it looks like more of the same with a new LP called ‘The Age Of Pleasure’ – and if you like your news to come ready made with some new music to listen to, you’re in luck – there’s a brand spanker called ‘Lipstick Lover’ to get…
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IT WASN’T MEGHAN IN DISGUISE AT ALL
One of the weirder things about the coronation of Sausage Hands Charlie (amongst a myriad of utterly bizarre things, honestly – we’ll get to that at the end) regards a man sat in the throng who looked like someone in disguise. The internet had a laugh and joked that it was obviously Meghan Markle in…
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TRAILER: NEW DOC ABOUT SYD BARRETT
Impossibly handsome and every bit as broken – Syd Barrett is one of the faces of the psychedelic movement, and yet, still so enigmatic. With that, there’s always going to be interest in him, how he founded and named one of the biggest band’s in the world and, to many, his time in the band…
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IBIZA ’89 // SEE IT FOR YOURSELF
If you’ve ever wanted to see what it was like during a seminal time on the White Isle, then you need to check Dave Swindell’s ‘Ibiza ’89’ book. Start muttering about the quality of pills and what constitutes ‘Balearic’ and all that good stuff, while leafing through some gorgeous photos of the time. There’s over…
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