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We ranked every Girls Aloud single simply because we love them. We’d like to say we had inside information on them making a comeback, but we didn’t. We could pretend we did, but honesty is in such short supply in music journalism that we’re not going to try putting you on. The thing is though,
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The sister to The Pop Corps is the Free Range radio show, which is available online for your listening pleasure whenever you like. Next month of course, will be an End Of Year affair, where we look at the best music released in 2023. We’ve covered a lot of the songs over the months on
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It’s great having collectibles on your shelf isn’t it? Whether it’s Funko Pops of your fave horror films, art bits and cassettes when you don’t have a tape player, whatever. With that in mind, wouldn’t you like to have Eric B & Rakim on your shelf? Course you would! Eric B & Rakim are amazing!
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Music is a funny ol’ business, and in the days of streaming, something interesting has happened. Thanks to algorithmic sentiments, it feels like it’s never been harder for smaller artists to reach an audience. Radio play is decided by committees and focus groups, which leaves us with a trace amount of DJs playing whatever they
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Well, Spotify have decided the way to fix the broken royalties model is to stop paying small bands. Now, that’s not how they’ll be spinning it, but it’s the reality of the situation. See, Spotify have a problem with ‘noise’ tracks and those generating plays by making ‘non music’. So, to fix that, they’re going
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The Chemical Brothers are saying ‘Goodbye’. Not forever, mind you. It’s the name of their new single and as ever, it’s got a really fancy, psychedelic video. They always have ace visuals don’t they? If you’ve seen them live recently, your eyeballs are probably still fizzing like Alka Seltzer in soup. Great craic. There’s also an
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Mildlife are an Australian band designed for dancing too. However, it’s also very much music of the head too, as they’ve been dubbed variously as ‘psychedelic jazz fusion’ and ‘prog disco’. If both of those phrases gave you a bit of the ick, don’t worry – this track you’re about to hear is cool, cool shit.
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Maybe we should know who Fever Ray are, but we don’t. Judging by this new thing we’ve just listened to, we’re still not sure because it’s a remix. And what a banger of a remix it is! The track is called ‘Even It Out’ and it s a rejig by Frost Children, and it’s a
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You remember Steve Mason from the Beta Band right? He’s always up to something. The latest is getting Mancunian rapper OneDa to rework his ‘Moss Side Fish Fry’, and it’s a elastic bass synth gem, honestly. OneDa says: “I approached this track as I would do a spoken word piece, using my verses in a
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We’ve spoken quite a bit about the last Beatles recording and it’s finally here and available to listen to it. Very bittersweet experience in all honestly. It’s age appropriate too, so don’t be expecting any 808s or dirty wub wubs. A touching final chapter to the greatest band to ever do it.
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GET ON DEARY IF YOU LIKE COCTEAU TWINS ETC
Look, we know it stinks when you liken one band to another, but if music listeners were all ‘I’ll listen to everything thrown at me and I’ll give it all an equal chance because I’M REALLY COOL!’ (which no-one is), we wouldn’t have to do it. Fact is, like a lot of good songs, you…
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APHEX TWIN: FIELD DAY
Hey Aphex Twin fans! Fancy a bit of drill ‘n’ bass to liven up your various cavities? Well, good news, he’ll be headlining Field Day this summer. You can come to daddy in Victoria Park on August 19th and you’re in for a treat for sure. Never a dull moment with Aphex Twin unless you’ve…
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DAFT PUNK SOLO? GO ON THEN
You know Thomas Bangalter from Daft Punk? Well, he’s announced details of his first official solo album in 20 years, titled ‘Mythologies’. Exciting eh? Big tops-off pumpers and amyl bangers? Well… This was conceived for a ballet which was performed in July 2022 in Bordeaux at the Grand Théâtre. It’s not sounding massively party, is…
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THOMAS ALMQVIST’S MASTERPIECE BACK SOON
Is it jazz? Is it folk? Is it fusion? Is it (whisper it now) balearic? Whatever it is, it is staggeringly gorgoues and it goes by the name of ‘Nyanser’ and it is by Thomas Almqvist. It was originally released in ’79 on Mistlur Records in Sweden, and it is a groovy, sophisticated number that…
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