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Cher has lived enough to fill a thousand lives – so it is great news to hear that she has been beavering away on her laptop (or dictating it to someone else while eating grapes and doing pilates) to give us all the details of her life so far in memoir form. Or rather, memoirs
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Fans of Orville Peck may recognise Bria Salmena from playing in his live band. Well, good news for Western-inflecked road-trip music lovers is that Bria has a solo record out. ‘Bending Over Backwards’ is Salmena’s debut solo cut under her own name and signed to Sub Pop, these are all good reasons to press play
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Listen. Anyone who is a fan of Ryan Leslie is already rabidly so need no further hype. However, we’re going to get excited all the same! R-Les is responsible for some of the finest R&B known to man, and while his career has been great, it is true that he never crossed over like many
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Jorja Smith’s R&B output was great, but we get a special kick when she’s dancefloor ready, especially like that killer Preditah remix that appeared a while back. She has a new single out called ‘High’ which is a tribal-ish house affair and is a sophisticated little groover that is ticking all the boxes for us.
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Whether you like it or not, Charli XCX has a choke hold on summer 2024. Her ‘brat’ branding has gone viral and you might have missed the initial spurt of it all, and would very much like someone to explain it because you’re interested in pop culture or have FOMO. Well, you can thank VIDEOGIRL
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Fans of Scottish folk and the Green Man Festival won’t need introducing to Pictish Trail, so good news for you is that he’s back with a new EP. It’s called ‘Follow Footsteps’ and you can hear the whole thing on Sept 13th. This new selection has been assembled alongside Susan Bear of Tuff Love. He
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Cult faves Galaxie 500 have gone and announced a new album of outtakes, B-sides, rarities, and previously unreleased tracks for the uber fans out there amongst you. The album is called ‘Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90’ and will be available in September on vinyl, CD, tape and digital of course. “I can see why we left
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Disco and Hi NRG legend, Evelyn Thomas, has sadly passed away at the fine age of 70. Chicago born, she had a huge hit with the utterly magical dancefloor powerhouse, ‘High Energy’ – one of the hallmark tracks that ushered in a new era for disco music and clubland. DJ and producer Ian Levine said:
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Floating Points is from Manchester, so we couldn’t help but notice that their new song shares the name with an old radio station from the city. People of a certain again will remember Piccadilly Key 103, so the fact that this is called ‘Key103’ will fill them with a fizzy nostalgia. Very nice. Of course,
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Channel Tres makes good house music and we’d like to see a DJ soon, please. He’s further proof that Summer 2024 is being completely owned by the West Coast, hailing from Compton. There’s a debut LP out called ‘Head Rush’ and it has a stellar line-up of guesties on it. It’s the usual blend of
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YOU LOVE LITTLE RICHARD RIGHT? YOU’RE ABOUT TO LOVE HIM MORE
Little Richard has long been adored, but he never truly got his flowers like many of his contemporaries did. That’s about to change. And about fucking time. Director Lisa Cortés’ has made a documentary about the greatest rock ‘n’ roll singer of all time called ‘Little Richard: I Am Everything’, which not only looks at…
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JONI MITCHELL BIOPIC
Cameron Crowe – you know him from the brilliant but don’t think too hard about it or it ends up feeling a bit problematic Almost Famous – is apparently doing a movie about Joni Mitchell. Now, Joni is the realest of the real, so this feels long overdue, however, movies about musicians are often not…
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SOME OF YOU HAVE TERRIBLE TASTE IN MUSIC
And that’s a good thing. Don’t worry about it.
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NEON LOVELINESS FROM MEGA BOG
Mega Bog. That’s a mad band name isn’t it? They’re a band on Mexican Summer and largely speaking, that’s a record label you can trust. Well, Mega Bog have a new track out called ‘Love Is’ and it’s a tremendous, neon, shimmery thing that you’ll like. Erin Birgy from the band says of Westerman’s appearance…
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