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  • STEVE ALBINI RIP

    Always good for a quote, decent at owning to the times he’s fucked up and contributed to nonsense and, importantly behind a load of great records, Steve Albini has exited stage left. It doesn’t matter how he died and you probably already know that he’s manned the desk for the likes of Nirvana, PJ Harvey,

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  • BLUR DOCUMENTARY TRAILER

    Documentaries about bands are great, even when they’re kinda crappy. We’ve no reason to think that this new one will be crappy, we’re just saying. Anyway, Blur have announced a new film called ‘Blur: To The End’ which looks at the recording of the (surprisingly good ‘The Ballad of Darren’ LP which we reviewed and

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  • RIP DRAKE 1986- 2024

    Popular Canadian child actor and erstwhile popstar Aubrey Graham, better known as Drake, has passed away. As the news broke, rapper J Cole was reportedly heard exhaling all the air out of his lungs in relief and while Pusha T could not be reached for comment, he could be heard cackling louder than a freight

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  • BEACH BOYS DOC SOON ON DISNEY+

    Disney+ has gone all-in on some cool Beatle stuff, but now its the turn of the Beach Boys! Now, there’s a lot to cover with the Wilsons & Co, so it will be interesting to see just how deep things go here. The promotional blurb says “get ready for an endless summer of fun, fun,

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  • KING PRINCESS VS STEELY DAN

    King Princess is pretty cool, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that they’re into Steely Dan like all the cool, disaffected, sarcastic kids are, right? We like that Prophet song they did too. Anyway, they’ve covered The Dan’s ‘Dirty Work’ for the show Hacks. Of course, Donald Fagen doesn’t sing this song live, leaving it to

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  • THE JOY OF ‘THE NEW DANCE SHOW’

    There’s few greater joys than seeing working class people dance en masse. Whether you’re amongst it or simply viewing it, hot dance music and people busting out while wearing their best clothes is wholesome good, and we’ve been going down a rabbit hole of clips from Detroit TV show ‘The New Dance Show’. It ran

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  • JANA MILA’S DOE-EYED COUNTRY POP

    We don’t really know anything about Jana Mila but on the strength of hearing her new single ‘Somebody New’, we’re going to find out as soon as we hit the publish button on this. The small amount we do know is that there’s going to be a new album in the summer called ‘Chameleon’. It’s

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  • NEW EZRA COLLECTIVE

    Jazz fusion’ers Ezra Collective have said they’ve got a new LP coming out this year, on the back of winning that award they won (we can’t remember what the award was, but we wrote about it and basically, it was well deserved) which is good news! Of course, that means a little teaser for it

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  • GENEVA JACUZZI WITH NEW BLITZ KID BOP

    Based in LA, you’d been forgiven for thinking that Geneva Jacuzzi was actually a product of the Blitz Kid crew with their take on glamorous, gothic pop music. She’s got a new record deal and a new song – ‘Dry’ – to celebrate that fact. She says: “I took a little break from writing music

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  • REVIEW / PET SHOP BOYS / NONETHELESS

    The Pet Shop boys, despite their occasional protestations, are the benchmark for smart pop music. When you listen to them, you can feel your brain being tickled while your feet move – they’re really made of magic when they’re on form. So with that, we’re looking at their latest LP ‘Nonetheless’, which they’ve dubbed their

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  • COSMIC COUNTRY POP FROM JENNY LEWIS

    Cosmic country pop? Like Gram Parsons but with a will to actually sell some records? Big claim that, but fuck it, let’s go with it. We’re talking about Jenny Lewis, who is a bit of a legend in certain circles, and who has a most excellent wardrobe (stop pretending that this isn’t a thing that…

  • KISS ARE AT EACH OTHER’S ELDERLY THROATS AGAIN

    It’s funny that ageing rockers bemoan the thin-skins of the yoof, while acting like petulant babies all the time, throwing their toys out of the pram and indulging in very ugly, public, hilarious spats. Just look at Pink Floyd. A very dignified set of old men there. With that, we turn our attentions to KISS.…

  • WHICH BAND DOES KEANU LOVE?

    Keanu Reeves is everyone’s non-problematic fave and generally seems like a good dude. Great face too, if we’re still objectifying people in 2023. You can imagine he’s got a half decent and very sizeable record collection, right? His house is probably dead nice. And we’re only mentioning Wyld Stallyns now to say that we won’t…

  • APRIL FOOL’S DAY

    We’re not bothering with anything like here, don’t worry. Everything you read today is just a normal story. However, that said, now we’ve drawn attention to it you might think we’ve completely made up our imminent Keanu Reeves piece up, when we haven’t. He’s just that nice.

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