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Not THE Automatic – this is just Automatic. This lot are from Los Angeles and are signed to Stones Throw. They have a new single out which we think you’ll like. The new song is taken from forthcoming album ‘Is It Now?’, which you’ll be able to hear in full on September 26th from the…
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We’re kinda not sure what music is being made by Nourished by Time, and honestly, that’s a good thing in the year of our lord, 2025. It’s so easy to get tripped up by genres, and here, we’ve got a song that has an applaudable free spirit. It’s not pop, it’s not freestyle, it’s not…
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Everyone was scrabbling around looking for a password so they could hear Hayley Williams’ new music, we found it, nearly published it before it transpired that she’d removed all the music from her website. What a palaver. Well, good news is that she’s officially released the 17 songs for everyone to hear so we don’t…
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Honestly, if a group is dubbed ‘post punk’, there’s a good chance we’ll swerve it as we’re over it already. However, there’s no denying there’s some cool bands that have been called such things, and we’ve got a new track from Ganser which is very good indeed. From Chicago, they’ve got a new song called…
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The comeback of country music has been fun and all, but we’ve found ourselves wishing someone would remember the weirder, louder, garage punk elements of it – think of all those old, fantastic, sleazy records that lie between rockabilly, early rock ‘n’ roll, and booty shakers. Well, Manchester group HONK remember, and they have an…
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South Korean group, Silica Gel (great band name, that) have teamed up with Michelle Zauner aka Japanese Breakfast for a new track called ‘南宮FEFERE’. Zauner says: “This was the first time I’ve ever written lyrics in Korean. Anyone who’s familiar with my work knows how much my Korean heritage has come to mean to me,…
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TOPS are a great little band – they’re awesome in a live setting too – and they’ve been putting some of their best work out this year, and their latest single is one of their best yet. Taken from their imminent album ‘Bury The Key’, new song ‘Annihilation’ is a slinky, synthy, almost Yacht Pop…
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Leftfield pop can too often mean that an artist is making something fun, but wilfully awkward, so rock fans can assuage themselves from feelings of selling out. However, when you apply the term properly, you have pure pop and all that comes with it, just a smidge left of centre to make it feel more…
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We’ve finally got an official trailer for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues after a teaser a while back, and as you might expect, there’s a lot of guest stars as the monsters of rock pull in the influential guns! In this new film, we see Questlove being zoomed by the boys, as well as…
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We don’t know much about the group called Goon, but we were reading a review elsewhere and it sounded like something we’d like to hear. An almost four-track recorded, immediate version of modern psychedelic music – fun! The review in question was on Stereogum, if you want to read it. We’re going to investigate more,…
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NO HIP HOP NUMBER ONES: THE WHY AND THE WHAT NEXT
We’re only halfway through the year, but it’s been noted that hip hop hasn’t had a number one in this calendar year (at least Stateside). This time last year, Gunna, Pusha, Tyler, Future and Kendrick had all landed at the summit, but this year feels leaner. It goes without saying that there’s time yet, and…
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TWITTER FACES LAWSUIT: PROBABLY BAD NEWS BUT ALSO FUNNY
Twitter is facing a massive lawsuit filed by a coalition of 17 music industry entities, and two things – it’s not necessarily in our nature to take the side of Big Music Business, and this may well be rotten news in terms of musicians’ ownership and copyright – we really aren’t sure. However, this is…
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OSEES NEW ONE IS A BLOW TO THE HEAD
There’s a new tune from OSEES called ‘GOON’ and honestly, it’s like someone dropping an anvil on your head from the top of some flats. We mean that in a good way of course. And you might be like ‘wasn’t their a band called The Oh Sees as well?’ It’s the same crowd. See, the…
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LIVE: BONNIE RAITT, BRIDGEWATER HALL, MANCHESTER
Bonnie Raitt is, without doubt, one of the realest to ever do it. With success coming relatively late into her career, what we’ve ended up with is an artist that obviously knows her worth, but is also still grateful and ultimately incredibly humble. In Manchester, Bonnie took to the stage with her incredibly capable band…
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