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  • HEAVY PSYCH FROM EARTH TONGUE

    If you like your psychedelic music to be fuzzy and heavy, then you need to get on the new track from Earth Tongue. They’re going to release a new album – their third – and it is produced by Ty Segall. It will be called ‘Dungeon Vision’, and the track we’re sharing here is called…

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  • JAMES BLAKE WITH MORE ROBO SOUL

    James Blake has returned with some new music, namely, the first single from the new album ‘Trying Times’, which is landing on shelves digital or otherwise on March 13th. The new song is called ‘Death of Love’, which he performs live in the new video for it. Look, with names like those, they’re not going…

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  • SIDESHOW’S INTERESTING RAP

    In all honesty, we don’t know much about the rapper who calls himself Sideshow, but we just heard a new track from them and we thought it was pretty interesting. Do you call it indie-hip hop? Whatever it is, it isn’t rage rap, trapcentric or a Golden Era throwback, which means he’s making music in…

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  • ALDOUS HARDING TOUR DATES

    Did you see Aldous Harding post something on Instagram recently, about some tour dates, but couldn’t really read it because the colours were making your eyes go fizzy and the quality of the image was pretty bad? Well, don’t worry – we’ve written them all down so you don’t have to squint. She’s going on…

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  • The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point

    We had to go with the ClickHole headline “Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point” headline, as Kid Rock sat before Congress and created a situation where a horrible idiot made a sound point. See, Kid Rock – Robert Ritchie to his doctor – has testified about the costs of gig…

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  • REVIEW / SHINTARO SAKAMOTO / YOO HOO

    Shintaro Sakamoto has been quietly blowing minds for musical magpies for a while though, but for those not with their ear tuned to Japanese rock, the name might not be familiar. More’s the pity, because Sakamoto is one of the most prolific artists on the planet right now, channelling psych, AOR, funk, slo-mo ’80s soul,…

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  • THUNDERCAT / SINGLE AND ALBUM

    Thundercat is back with some more deliciously smooth shit, as he announces a brand new album in the process. It only seems like yesterday that he released a record, but it’s actually six whole years since we had a long player of his to listen to. The new album is out April 3rd and from…

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  • MORE GREEN-HOUSE IS A GREAT THING

    We’ve written about Green-House and featured them on our radio show – fact is, in ambient circles, you won’t find many records better. With that, it’s wonderful to learn that there’s a new album due called ‘Hinterlands’. If you’re sold enough and just want the facts, it’ll be released on 20th March on Ghostly International,…

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  • KNEECAP / AND NOW WE MOVE ONTO THE LIARS

    Kneecap aren’t mucking around and are back with a new single called ‘Liars Tale’, taking potshots at Kier Starmer in the process. The track is from forthcoming LP ‘FENIAN’, which will land on April 24th. In the track, you’ll hear: “Fuck Keir Starmer, Netanyahu’s bitch and genocide harmer” adding they’ve “never seen a cunt so boring.”…

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  • ARE WE LEAVING THE LANDFILL POST PUNK ERA?

    Post Punk always had a dog in the fight. That was always kinda the point, right? From Gang Of Four’s leftie funk, to The Fall’s derelict shopping precincts and alcoholic bookwormery, to Siouxsie’s genuinely otherness, you always felt it was bands with some skin in the game. While punk could often feel like middle class tourists…

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  • MALL LIFE IN EIGHTIES USA

    This isn’t technically music, but pop culture counts, and we stumbled across a glorious DIY documentary of mall life in ’80s USA Candid interviews with kids hanging out, talking about buying records, flirting, shopping, smoking cigarettes and more. Great accents and haircuts galore. Enjoy.

  • GRIMES // INTERESTING TAKE ON AI… BUT…

    Grimes makes music and she’s got stuff to say about artificial intelligence. Now, there’s been a lot of chat about AI recently, as basically, it’s got sophisticated enough to start making soundalike songs of other artists, and this goes beyond parody and impersonation – it’s something new and weird, so we’ve got to have a…

  • FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD BIOPIC

    Great news pop fans! There’s going to be a biopic of Frankie Goes To Hollywood. We were going to make a literal ‘going to Hollywood’ pun, but decided to merely half-mention it instead for vague credit on a pun we had no confidence in, just in case it worked. Anyway, don’t they all deserve it?…

  • PREV UNRELEASED DAFT PUNK AVEC JULIAN STROKES

    Daft Punk are ace, and there’s still cool stuff in the hard drive it turns out, as they’ve put out a previously unreleased track that features The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas. This track is called ‘Infinity Repeating’ and is not to be confused with the other track they did with him. Great news too, that this…

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