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Lists are fun, but we know they’re arbitrary. We all know that, but we still get worked up about them. That’s why publications do them. Hundreds of articles can sail by with barely a whisper of a reply, but as soon as you nail your colours to the mast, everyone’s at your throat and wanting
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If you like PINS, then Faith Vern from the group has a new project called The Faux Faux, and cuts a very different figure from the garage punk of her other band. A little more kitchen sink and ’60s girl-group (but still a good amount of Northern Grit, you’ll be thrilled to know) and a
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Fans of mildly psychedelic pop music should tune-in now, because LP Giobbi has a new track out that’s great and you’ll like it. It comes from a new album called ‘Light Places’ and will be out in May. As none of us are very good at waiting for things, you can hear the new track
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12 years ago on this very day, Rebecca Black released ‘Friday’ and became a meme. She implored us that we needed to get down on Friday, and over a decade later with the release of her first LP ‘Let Her Burn’, on a literal Friday, it’s very easy to get down, because in a week
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This summer, King Charles III will be getting fitted with a new hat and of course, us loyal servants will be allowed to stop averting our eyes for the day to look directly at a man who is still called Prince Charles really. Of course, like all public holiday things, the 24 hour news channels
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Matthew McConaughey is going to provide the voice for Elvis Presley in a new animated TV series, which explains the terrible joke we made in the headline. Don’t worry – there’ll be more terrible takes to come. Producers at Netflix announced that the Oscar-winning actor will voice to the lead character in the upcoming action-comedy
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You may know of BC Camplight already, but if you don’t, there’s a lot to love with Brian “BC” Christinzio. Parts stadium sized rock, part Todd Rundgren, part something else entirely his own, there’s always good stuff to be found on a BC LP. Well, there’s new shit coming on an album called ‘The Last
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There’s no question that Burt Bacharach is one of the greatest people who ever lived. His way with a song is rarely matched and, sadly, he’s passed away at the grand old age of 94. With Hal David, all by himself, and with others, Bacharach has brought us a dizzying amount of classics. ‘Walk On
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A lot of new psychedelic music falls into the same ol’ boring traps of drone music, dressed in skinny black jeans, and citing the same 4 or 5 bands as influence, when in fact, psychedelia is a much broader church than that. Which is why we’re thrilled about the newest LP from Marlene Ribeiro. On
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Like noodly synth stuff from Germany? Course you do! Well, if you’re not already all over ‘Zuckerzeit’ by Cluster, you’re in luck! That means sugar time, by the way. It was the third LP from the cosmic German outfit, originally released in ’74, and an off-shoot of the also wonderful Harmonia group. And Neu! Basically,
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NUGGETS BOXSET IS BACK
Most of us are well aware of the amazing comp/boxset etc ‘Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968′, first out in ’72 and basically (alongside a little help from Lester Bangs’ writing) invented garage punk as a genre. The compilation was put together by Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith’s cohort) and it is rightly…
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MIX: BE WITH ME / FOLK FUNK & TRIPPY TROUBADOURS
Paul Hillery’s mixes over on Mixcloud are the stuff of legend if you love groovy and witchy psychedelic folk. His selections switch from dreamlike, to super chuggers, to sometimes evil sounding and such. He’s one of the best and he even did the holy grail of getting a compilation out (vinyl here, if you’re already…
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NEW T-PAIN COVERS LP (JUST WAIT TIL YOU SEE THE ARTWORK)
T-Pain is brilliant. He’s always been brilliant. He can turn his hand to almost anything and yet, there’s foolish people out there who still think he can’t sing and that autotune does all the work. T-Pain has always had the vocal chops and anyone who has seen his Tiny Desk show knows how fantastic and…
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NEW SOUL FROM YAYA BEY
It’s kinda hideous to liken anyone to any of the flag-bearers of Neo Soul, but it is handy when you’re trying to convey that we’re dealing with a modern artist that is able to both look forward with their music, but also use all the rich musical past that exists, especially in soul music. So…
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