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DuoLingo has been a runaway success when it comes to teaching people new languages, turning tedious learning into something approaching a fun, social game. Wouldn’t it be great if they branched out and did it with other things we’d like to learn? Well, answering our prayers, DuoLingo has started teaching music theory basics, so you…
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Do not sleep on the new track from Desire Marea. If you like ’70s afrobeat, future funk, R&B and all that great stuff, then this is made for your ears and feet. From South Africa, Desire has released the super vibey ‘The Only Way’ which is taken from the imminent EP ‘The Baddies of Isandlwana’.…
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The great thing about dorks uploading stuff to YouTube is that us nerds can mainline all the stuff that won’t get repeated on the box. One fun thing we watched is a 1965 Granada special called The Music of Lennon & McCartney. It’s a special looking at other artists performing Beatle music (as well as…
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Roger Waters has lost his goddamn mind. We all knew that. He’s been off the deep-end for years, but this latest bout is kinda funny and we’re not in the mood for getting into the serious stuff this week, what with the world being so depressingly heavy. So what’s he been up to? Well, he…
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Its criminal that, broadly speaking, Sly Stone is not in all the conversations about living legends in music. It’s hard to understate the massive influence on pop music that Sly & The Family Stone had. Melting rock with soul, inventing slap bass, spearheading funk, fusing jazz with psychedelia – they’re one of the greatest bands…
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It was always thought that the internet was the new telly, making telly relevant but kinda outdated, becoming the new radio. That makes radio what then? Then new papyrus? Seems everyone’s been a bit hasty as there’s been a report that’s been shared that shows that people aged 18-34 are listening to more radio than…
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We told you about Deary ages ago, so you may well be all over them already. If not, and you’re into shoegaze and Cocteau Twins and all that good stuff, you’re going to love them. If you’re looking for vinyl, then they’ve got an eponymous EP out with six tracks and in a number of…
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The internet is filled with arbitrary lists – lists that are prone to change ten minutes after they’ve been written. We thought we’d do one. These things aren’t ever really useful in any way, or particularly relevant to any current affair, so we thought we’d rank the singles released by Girls Aloud because we happened…
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Tkay Maidza’s newie is a gem of a track that we think you’ll like. It’s called ‘Out Of Luck’ and a rubbery, slinky piece of dancefloor ready R&B. If you like KAYTRANADA, you’ll dig. He’s on the LP on production duties, so this may well be him. We haven’t looked it up. The track is…
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Gruff Rhys has a new single out called ‘Celestial Candyfloss’ and of course, we’re always happy to hear his voice. However, seeing as the rest of the Super Furry Animals also have new music out as Das Koolies, it’s making us unhappy that all of them aren’t teaming up for a new SFA LP. We’re…
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WE’RE STILL MENTIONING MUSICIANS’ WEIGHT IN 2023
People are idiots and say idiotic things all the time. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with being an idiot, but tropes get tired fast and it’s exhausting listening to people think they’re saying something for the first time. Add to that, something so wildly off the mark and pointless, it just makes you want to windmill…
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UNEARTHED STEELY DAN GAUCHO SESSION TRACK SEES THE LIGHT
It’s not often you get new Steely Dan material to listen to, even moreso now that only Donald Fagen remains since Walter Becker shrugged off his mortal coil. However, there’s a new Steely Dan song to listen to! With The Dan were recording the hipsters’ favourite LP – ‘Gaucho’ – they recorded a track that…
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GIRL RAY HAVE DONE IT AGAIN
Girl Ray, later this year, will release an album that absolutely deserves to be topping all kinds of charts and finishing toward the top of critic lists. We know this because the singles that have been released from it so far have all been unequivocally brilliant. They deserve all the success, truly. And they’ve just…
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ARCTIC MONKEYS: SENDING UP THE THING YOU LOVE; OR THE CASE OF THE FALLING MASKS
“The Monkeys we loved are gone” wrote someone about the Arctic Monkeys headlining set at Glastonbury. “They used to be good” wrote another. Critics and fans alike had certain demands and preconceived notions, and it turns out that the Arctic Monkeys may have outmanoeuvred or outgrown fair weather music fans. Or do they just suck…
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