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It’s a bit meta, but it’s a great band name. Mediocre are releasing their debut EP ‘To Know You’re Screwed’ in April, and their new single ‘Pop Song Baby’ is a whole load of fun and we like stuffing it into our ears. They say: “We wanted to write a song that our teenage selves
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DJ Koze and Roisin Murphy have worked together before, and they’re at it again, which is great news for feet and ears everywhere. The new one is called ‘CooCool’ and it’s Murphy’s first single released on Ninja Tune. You can skip all the words if you like and just head to the video below. It’s
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His name has been hot shit for a minute and his stock is rising quickly – Texas son Mike Dimes is not letting up and new track ‘Heavy Metal’ goes hard! This will sound good in the club or the car – we’re into it. In ’22, Dimes’ ‘In Dimes We Trust’ LP was very
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You don’t have to speak the language to love a style of music. Maybe you are fluent in French, but no matter, because the fact is that Algeria’s Raï music is some of the most joyous and brilliant stuff ever recorded. It is a form of Algerian folk that kicked off in the ’20s and
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Remember how good ‘Pharaohs’ was by SBTRKT? Well, good news, they’re back soon and will have a new LP out called ‘The Rat Road’ on May 5th. In a note: “This album has been my most sonically ambitious record to create – following my own musical path – which isn’t based on others’ perceptions of
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Here’s the tracklist for the latest FREE RANGE radio show which you can hear over on Mixcloud. Click here for the most recent shows and some of the archive of mixes. Below is the newest show 1 VELMA PERKINS YES MY GOODNESS YES 2 JOHN BERBERIAN & THE ROCK EAST ENSEMBLE THE OUD & THE
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The supergroup made up of Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker are pretty famous these days. Famous enough that we really don’t need to tell you anything about them. Click below and have a listen to their new song called ‘Not Strong Enough’.
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As people get older, many just give up. They’re just not as curious about music as they once where. They fall back into familiar albums and even with the advent of Spotify and music never being so simple to explore, they just bed down into the LPs of their youth like elderly rodents in hay.
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Everyone ought to know by now that Bob Stanley is one of the finest custodians of popular music, being a member of the mighty St Etienne, but also, writer of countless wonderful words about it and putting out so many dynamite compilations – he really has become a national treasure for music geeks, and we’re
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EDDIE FROM CHARLES & EDDIE KEEPS ON BEING ACE
Eddie Chacon is very much a love of the hip and record collector sorts – sexy dads in Yogi shoes and linen trousers – but the average listener might have needed the Charles & Eddie reference in the headline to hook them in. Just explaining ourselves there in a rather meta way. It’s 2023 and…
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MAE MULLER EUROVISION REVIEW
Listen, we unapologetically love Eurovision ’round these parts and if you’re at all sniffy about the annual, glorious celebration of pop music in its purest form, sort yourself out, you nerd. Anyway, enough of the negatives and onto a rather big positive! The UK haven’t really go a hang of entering great pop songs into…
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MEDIOCRE WITH POP SONG BABY
It’s a bit meta, but it’s a great band name. Mediocre are releasing their debut EP ‘To Know You’re Screwed’ in April, and their new single ‘Pop Song Baby’ is a whole load of fun and we like stuffing it into our ears. They say: “We wanted to write a song that our teenage selves…
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ROISIN X DJ KOZE
DJ Koze and Roisin Murphy have worked together before, and they’re at it again, which is great news for feet and ears everywhere. The new one is called ‘CooCool’ and it’s Murphy’s first single released on Ninja Tune. You can skip all the words if you like and just head to the video below. It’s…
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