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  • MAC DEMARCO IS BACK FOR XMAS

    Mac DeMarco is kinda back. He’s been away you see, after the success of his last LP ‘Here Comes The Cowboy’. That’s what it was called wasn’t it? Pretty sure it was. Anyway, he just wanted to get in the festive mood and remind us that he existed, so he’s knocked out a video for…

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  • NEPO BABIES, EH?

    Have you heard about ‘Nepo Babies’? It’s not really the best of names for the people who have had a leg-up in their careers thanks to having a famous parent or two (nepotism babies, geddit?), but honestly, you’re not getting any better alternatives here unless something pops into our head while we’re writing this article…

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  • PUSHA T NO LONGER AT G.O.O.D. CAN’T THINK WHY.

    There’s few things as satisfying as Pusha T saying ‘YERGHK!’ in a track. He’s a venomous MC alright and sharp as a tack. He’s also quite the businessman, coming up with the ‘I’m Lovin’ It’ for McDonald’s and also, heading up the G.O.O.D. Music label. Of course, that’d be Kanye West’s record label there. Now,…

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  • TERRY HALL: UNHEARD THING FROM 1985

    It is an unlikely pairing, but Timmy Mallett (yep, that very same one) has unveiled a never-heard-before mix (at least in digital form) of Terry Hall presenting a radio show of songs that mean a great deal to him. Mallett was a DJ on Manchester’s Piccadilly Radio and had a show where he allowed pop…

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  • XMAS PLAYLIST

    Have you been looking for a Christmas playlist? Doesn’t matter if you like Jesus are not, because it’s basically a secular holiday anyway, what with the amount of booze and gear being done at this most wonderful time of the year. What’s Baileys and beak got to do with a baby being born in the…

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  • OLIVIA RODRIGO IS GOING TO GIVE YOU A XMAS CUTE OVERDOSE

    Olivia Rodrigo seems to be doing it right. She was catapulted to fame with a giganto hit and, instead of thinking ‘sod it, let’s make a cash grab and do all the arenas immediately!’, she’s made a conscious decision to play smaller venues, and if the arenas come, then she feels she will have earned…

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  • KINKS ANTI XMAS

    The great thing about running your own blog and not being at all answerable to advertisers and the like, is that you can throw any old cobblers up and it counts as content. Not that this counts as any old cobblers. Someone else, however, has done the work for us. You see, we were going…

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  • MARY J BLIGE & A BOTTLE OF WINE

    Have you ever heard of a more perfect pitch for a television show? It’s Mary J. Blige talking to other people, while making their way through a load of wine. Honestly, this should have been on TV for 20something years already. And what is it called? ‘The Wine Down’, that’s what it is called, and…

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  • TERRY HALL’S DEATH IS DEPRESSING IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE

    There’s going to be a lot of words written about the death of Terry Hall, and many of them better researched and with closer ties to the man than this one. He was iconic, drily funny, frustrated, well-dressed and a host of other things that everyone knows. You don’t need telling these things now that…

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  • PINK FLOYD DARK SIDE OF THE MOON ERA FOR (KINDA) NOTHING

    Copyright is a funny ol’ thing, but basically, thanks to it being funny, Pink Floyd are quietly doing some stuff and semi hoping you won’t notice, in a bid to keep hold of the copyright. Or not. Who cares? Basically, Ver Floyd have uploaded 18 concerts from the Dark Side of the Moon period (they…

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  • WE ASKED AI TO WRITE ABOUT A FAILING BAND

    The room was dark, the atmosphere heavy with disappointment and defeat. The band had played their hearts out, but something had gone wrong. Their once-promising career had come to a screeching halt, and now they were left with nothing but shattered dreams and broken spirits. The lead singer sat slumped in a chair, his head…

  • ROGER DALTRY SAYS THERE’S NO POINT IN A NEW WHO LP

    Roger Daltrey has been asked if The Who are making music for a new LP. He’s said “what’s the point?” and, honestly, where’s the lie? There’s not many fizzing with excitement at the prospect of a new album from Daltrey and Townshend, is there? No harm like. He said: “What’s the point? What’s the point…

  • SFA GO DAS KOOLIES

    Take four of the Super Furry Animals and you get Das Koolies – a psychedelic techno adventure that shows the gang are still brimming with ideas even when the main project is resting. It’s pulsating and political and ultimately, it’s a load of fun. Whenever the SFA lads are involved in something, it’s always worth…

  • HUEY LEWIS: COOL GUY, HASN’T SEEN AMERICAN PSYCHO

    Huey Lewis is genuinely a cool guy. He’s like the ’80s John Sebastian or something. Great songs, approachable, the people’s champ! Well, his band features heavily in the lore of American Psycho, and even though the movie was released in 2000, he’s still not seen it. Neither have we. We’ve seen a lot of memes…

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