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As much as R&B is one of our favourite genres, it’d be remiss of us to not acknowledge that it falls for fashionable tropes a little too often. This is one of the pitfalls for a genre that is so keen to innovate and stay on the cutting edge, as artists and producers indulge in…
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Ever noticed how YouTubers and writers do long preambles to essays and pieces in a bid to give the viewer or reader a sense of value for money? Or maybe, to spam the algorithm into coughing up money for a more substantial thing? Well, we’re avoid that and telling you the truth – we don’t…
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We’ve wandered into the summer, and that of course, means it is festival season. Alongside the usual hedonism, middle class kids doing some working class tourism, yurts, balloons, and flags, there’s also going to be Palestine. A lot of media outlets are focusing on Kneecap, who have been vocal in their support for Palestine and…
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Cass McCombs really does write good songs. He likes a hook, a chorus, a decent melody, and all those things that makes you glad that there’s still people around who like to include all these things in their music. There’s a new album due from him called ‘Interior Live Oak’ which is out in August,…
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Aside from the countless, despicable things being undertaken by the US government in recent years, one of the things that really sticks in the craw is just how they claim to be tough and uncancellable, while being the biggest, pearl clutching soft-arses on the planet. Sure, the terminally online left may seem like they’re out…
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Mavis Staples is great and we should sing her praises every chance we get. There’s nothing she can’t sing or add something to, and from spearheading Southern Soul and gospel, to pallying up with The Band, it’s great she’s still got some surprises left in her. With that, she’s released a cover of Frank Ocean’s…
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Phoenix are great and we especially love their debut album ‘United’, as it basically preempted rock music falling in love with 70s soft rock and 80s production again. Between them and their pals Daft Punk, their love of AOR and wonky Beach Boys LPs paved the way for Yacht Rock’s revival, disco’s renaissance and the…
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We’d need to dedicate a thousand words to the influence, genius, and all round wonder that is Brian Wilson, to pay tribute to him now he’s passed. However, we feel that right now, it’s better to watch Brian being really happy, performing the Smile suite with a band that loves the material as much as…
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When an artist makes certain demands to be taken seriously, more often than not, the knives come out. It may be unfair that the landscape of music journalism can praise one artist for having lofty ambitions, while deriding another for the same thing, but that’s always been the way. We find ourselves with Miley’s new…
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Sly Stone has left the building, leaving behind a life and a career that eclipses most of what everyone else managed to cram in, combined. Seemingly against the odds, he managed to reach the grand old age of 82. His family issued a statement. “It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of…
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ETHEL CAIN DEMOS
If you enjoyed the last Ethel Cain record – and you should’ve because it’s great – then you can have a peer behind the curtain of it, with the release of some demos. It’s the demos from ‘Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You’ and they were released on NYE, but we’ve only just seen them…
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REVIEWING ALL THE SMITHS ALBUMS
To say we’re not fans of The Smiths would be something of an understatement. Seeing as fans of the group fail to take the hint and keep proselytising about them, it might be time to see what the actual deal is. Of course, these records have been listened to in the past, but in the…
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DOECHII + SZA
Welcome to 2026, and let us start the year with some new music, as tempted as we were to start the new year off with some snark. Let’s be nice before we get to saying anything salty about anyone, right? We kick off with a TDE love-in, as Doechii and SZA team up on an…
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CHRIS REA / A BIGGER LEGEND THAN HE LET ON
Chris Rea has sadly left us, and this being the Christmas period, it’s sad that he left as people settled down to his classic yuletide groover, ‘Driving Home For Christmas’. There’ll be a lot of fond words written about the great man, but we’d like to pay tribute by highlighting some of his finest songs,…
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