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  • NEW LEMONHEADS

    Everyone’s favourite ’90s crush, Evan Dando, is back as The Lemonheads with the first bit of properly new music in almost 20 years. He’s still being tuneful, slackerish, and a general bohemian dreamboat, of course. He’s teamed up with J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr as well as Lemonhead cohort Juliana Hatfield and it’ll all feel

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  • COOL NEW FALLE NIOKE

    Born in Guinea, but now residing in lovely Margate, Falle Nioke is being the irrepressible multi-instrumental and fine-voiced artist with a new song out that is well worth your time and your ears for listening. Nioke has announced a debut LP which is called ‘Love From Under The Sea’, which you’ll be able to hear

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  • DARYL HALL, PREDICTABLY, HATES ‘YACHT’

    Daryl Hall’s transition into grumpy old dude continues apace. After airing his dirty underpants with the fallout of the dissolution of the Hall & Oates partnership – which he could have done quietly and left us to enjoy the tunes – he’s now turned his irritation toward the term ‘Yacht Rock’. Now, before we crack

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  • CONMAN VS ORBITAL

    Now that the acid-casual parents have children old enough to be going out to clubs themselves, it’s fun to think about intergenerational happenings on the the dancefloors of the UK, with mum and son going halves on some pills. With that, there’s a new track out which will be a bridge between “I used to

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  • REVIEW / KALI UCHIS / SINCERELY

    There’s been a helluva lot of dreamy, pastel-hued music released over the last decade, perhaps in direction opposition to the spiky turmoil of the broader world at large… or perhaps it’s the resurgence of psychedelic drugs? Either way, it’s easy to get vibe-fatigue and wish someone would write a chorus. While we’ve found ourselves wanting

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  • NEW COSEY FANNI TUTTI

    Cosey Fanni Tutti is a legend, of course, so it is great to report that there’s a new track for you to get stuck into, which has been taken from the forthcoming new album ‘2t2’, which you’ll be able to hear in full June 13th. A nine-track album, performed and composed entirely by herself, it

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  • REVIEW / ARCADE FIRE / PINK ELEPHANT

    Whether Arcade Fire like it or not, there won’t be many reviews about their new LP that fails to mention the accusations against Win Butler’s alleged sexual misconduct. As its been so well reported elsewhere, we’re going to focus on the music contained within latest releas, ‘Pink Elephant’, even if there’s a nagging send of

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  • TOPS ARE GREAT AND HAVE A NEW SONG

    We’ve had the good fortune to see TOPS live and what a treat they were. Shimmering, psychedelic indie-pop that feels actively good for the soul. The good news is that they’re back! Apparently, they’ve got a new deal and with that, have released a new single called ‘ICU2’, and it features all the good stuff

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  • CHECK THE HARD DRIVE / MELLOW YELLOW

    It would appear we’ve been mishearing ‘Mellow Yellow’ – the smash psychedelic pop hit from Donovan – this entire time. On a surface listen, it’s just one of those daft drug songs, probably about smoking banana peel or something, right? Well, what we assumed was ‘I’m just mad about Fontaine…‘ – it isn’t out of

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  • V.I.C. LEANS ON TRAP FOR NEW BOP

    There’s more than one rapper called V.I.C. We’re talking about the one from England, who has shared a new mixtape called ‘VÄRIANT’, which is sounding pretty great on our first listen. There’s echoes of trap in there, as well as UK drill, afrobeat swagger, and a load more too. You’ll hear it when you press

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  • FREE RANGE MARCH 2023

    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…

  • NEW BOYGENIUS SONG

    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’.

  • WHY DO PEOPLE CLOSE THEIR EARS TO NEW MUSIC AS THEY AGE?

    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.…

  • BOB STANLEY & THE BEE GEES

    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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