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Gracie Abrams has opened a can of worms this week, and that’s fine. Pop stars are supposed to run their mouths occasionally, and everyone else in turn, gets to run theirs. That’s the way pop culture works – it’s a contact sport. Speaking about Taylor Swift, she said: “There’s also nothing that comes close to…
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We liked the Waxahatchee album – ‘Tigers Blood’ – a lot, but sadly got into it too late to have it on our end of year lists. Still, good music is still great whenever you hear it! With that, we’re right on time to hear a new track from the same sessions, and its called…
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Look, we don’t know a lot about Squid, but you might. Squid feel like one of those bands that people like you probably like. We realise that this sounds like shade, but it’s not. There’s new music to listen to, crucially, and we don’t quite know how to describe it, which in an age of…
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Such is the paid-for media churn these days, it almost feels redundant writing about bit single releases. What’s the point in telling you what we think, when you’ve already been alerted to the existence of a song, and listened to it yourself? It all reeks of us trying to vaguely grab some traffic off the…
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Instead of shrugging at the inevitability of everything being bad in the world of music, maybe we could all take a few minutes out of our day, to contribute to the future of it. If you want to have your say about the state – and future – of live music, then you’re invited to…
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The new radio show of ours – Free Range – is out. Music from all over the globe as ever, with new music from Panda Bear, Hayley Williams’ granddad, Everything Is Recorded, Vulfmon, and loads more. There’s a tribute to dear Marianne Faithfull too, as well as the usual shenanigans with a dreadful AI co-host.…
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Das Koolies – the band that are Super Furry Animals without Gruff – have more acid fried music out! It’s a mixture of Furry psych and acid house (so both kinds of acid then!) and is called ‘Som Bom Magnifico’ and will feature on the new LP, ‘Pando’, which is out in May. Go. Press…
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Jamie XX has teamed up with Erykah Badu for a day-glo chugger that sounds like it’ll be a staple in the festival sets this summer. Jamie says: “A few years ago, I was playing at a Primavera afterparty in Barcelona with Erykah Badu. The decks stopped working and she just freestyled this incredible acapella performance,…
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She seemed to live a hundred lives at the same time, and honestly, it seems bizarre that us mere mortals were looking at the same sky she was. Marianne Faithfull – a complete one-off – has left us and we’re all the poorer for it. And where to start? For over six decades, she’s been…
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When dance music works best, it’s straddles the line between sleazy, wrecking your shoes, drunk cigs and gritty, and impossibly glamorous and shimmering with fantasy. It worked for disco, it worked for the pop-house boom in the early ’90s, and it’s worked for just about anything to shake your backside with on the weekend. Dance…
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MARCUS VERGETTE: SCULPTURE MEETS AVANT GARDE
Not everything you listen to is designed for the club or a sugar coated three minute pop-song – sometimes things can be strange, artistic, dark, and unlike anything you’ve listened to before. In the case of ‘Tintinnabulation’ by Marcus Vergette, we stumbled across one of the most enchanting and peculiar LPs we’ve come across. A…
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GABE NANDEZ BACK WITH A BANG
He’s from NYC and you can tell – rapper Gabe ‘Nandez has a new track out that sounds fresh and modern but also has a nod to early Noughties rap. Think Clipse and Neptunes produced bangers and you’re in the right ballpark. If you’re into Chingy too, get on it. In short, it’s a whole…
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SO WHICH SCABS ARE PLAYING CHARLIE’S NEW HAT CEREMONY?
We told you there’d be a gig for Prince Charles‘ transformation into King Charles III Rex or whatever he’s called now. We predicted that Jess Glynne would be asked because, well, just listen to her. Well, we’ve had some confirmations. Let us go through them in list form, and then write down what we think…
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AHMAD JAMAL, RIP
The legendary jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal has left us, confirmed by his wife. Maybe not a household name, but every inch a legend. His playing was warm but minimal, a spiritual link between the cool jazz and bop eras of the genre. A titan in jazz, and hugely influential on his peers and those that followed. The…
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