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The world of music journalism is filled with entitled chancers and brazen liars. We don’t exclude ourselves from this, but we have the basic decency to embrace it. Given that music publications and departments at newspapers are incredibly keen to thwart any new blood treading on their toes and stopping anyone from getting in the…
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Baritone vocals, intense music, soundscapes about alienation in the inner city and videos shot in black and white with a twangy bass and everyone in long overcoats hoping someone asks them what new wave Polish cinema they’ve been watching? Sounds like Joy Division doesn’t it? Well, yes. If you like bands that either sound like…
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Listen, you might think that this is some bozo article having a pop at Cardi B – but that couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, to use modern parlance, we’re shipping Cardi because she’s been ranting about the price of shopping for your groceries, and we agree wholeheartedly. On socials, she let fly…
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For those of you with a few quid or who are insatiable completists, the Rolling Stones in Mono is a boxset of dreams and soon to be released. There were rumours about the boxset that never really fully emerged, but now it has been confirmed and there’s a couple of surprises too. This boxset will…
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When you think of package tours, you think of ’70s glam rock oldheads doing the rounds, or maybe some old soulie revue on the Northern Soul circuit, or maybe ’80s popstars wheeled out to do the hits. All good, clean fun. Get a round in, sing your faves, and off you pop. However, package tours…
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Hits on hits, YoungBoy Never Broke Again has a new album out and it’s called ‘I Rest My Case’ (Jan 6). With occasional flashes of brilliance, and sometimes guilty of trap-by-numbers, what’s he up to now? Well, for starters, he’s signed to Motown which is nothing to be sniffed at, so there’s money and clout…
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You may not know this – you might – but recently, the mighty Shania Twain took her clothes off for a song. It was called ‘Waking Up Dreaming’ and it’s the lead single from her upcoming LP, ‘Queen Of Me’. About all that, she said a bunch of incredibly likeable stuff, because that’s what Shania…
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A new LP from Iggy Pop is always a roll of the dice, not that anyone is holding that against one of the greatest to ever do it. When he’s great, he’s untouchable – and then there’s the other Iggy who we’re rooting for and thinking about ‘No Fun’. So, a new album called ‘Every…
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De La Soul – bright clothes, witty, funny hip hop. They ushered in the Daisy Age and… well… they’ve always seemed pretty miserable since then haven’t they? One of the reasons they’ve been so moody is streaming. They just want to get paid and be treated fairly don’t they? That’s fair. They’ve also taken to…
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They’re mean. Every track is a diss track. Against who? Someone with receding hair. Someone boring. Copycats. Cluck clucking bitches. Waking up at 8am. You name it, they’re over it already. Like over exposed Instax shots at some NY loft party circa 2005, like early mixtape culture mixed with Kreayshawn’s Internet savvy, obscure electronica 45s,…
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URUSEI YATSURA GO GOLD
One of the most underrated bands of the ’90s are Urusei Yatsura. They were noisy good fun and could deliver sugary sweet punk as well as delivering all manner of unholy noise on your ears. Hailing from Glasgow and with good hair, their gigs were chaos, with drumsticks used as blunt force to hit guitars…
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THE LIFE OF A SUPPORT BAND
Being a support act on a tour must be a strange experience. Imagine you’re playing to a hundred people in a pub, and then some stadium sized band decides to take you on the road. Quite the leap, and with non of the fame. Well, here’s an old video from the BBC Archives concerning exactly…
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FFA COFFI PAWB REISSUE NEWS!
Welsh music fans and Super Furry completists rejoice! The 1992 LP, Hei Vidal! from Ffa Coffi Pawb is getting reissued so you can have a lovely copy on vinyl. Formed in Bethesda in 1986 by sixteen year old friends Gruff Rhys and Rhodri Puw, this is the high watermark of the band’s work. You’ll be…
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SO YOU MAY HAVE HEARD BLUR HAVE A NEW LP DUE
Blur announced some massive Wembley gigs and that was that, right? Wrong. They have surprised everyone by announcing a new album! It’s called The Ballad of Darren and is out July 21 via Parlophone. Their first since ‘The Magic Whip’. And there’s a new song too, called ‘The Narcissist.’ Damon Albarn: “This is an aftershock record, reflection and…
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