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Manchester is known for being a hotbed of music and DJs, but too many fall into the tired tropes of years past, focusing on nostalgia and making sure the same half dozen faces get the same haf dozen gigs time and time again. Not the case with the latest guest for ‘Ten Songs’ – the
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Taqbir are amazing and if you’re into righteous, noisy rock music and haven’t heard them yet, you need to get on it at the first opportunity. Good news for those who missed their vinyl release of their self-titled 45, there’s a red variant for sale along with a dynamite t-shirt to let people know you
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Like Jack Daniel’s and a concerning attitude toward young women, The Doors are synonymous with the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle, thanks in part to Jim Morrison’s cavorting, leather trousers, chewy lyrics and, crucially, this untimely death. When it comes to American psychedelic music, there’s a raft of incredible groups and experimentalists, but really, none of
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Honestly, we weren’t following the politics of Venezuela too keenly before the country’s president got pinched by the weirdos in the States. Nicolás Maduro might look like a South American Saddam lookalike these days, which probably helps the MAGA crowd square what they think of the whole thing – however, he was once a noisy
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Bob Weir, one of the lynch pins of the Grateful Dead, has aged 78. A statement on Weir’s official channels said that he’d “succumbed to underlying lung issues” after a battle with cancer. “He transitioned peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, after courageously beating cancer as only Bobby could,” it read. The importance of the Grateful
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We already told you about the new stuff from The Orielles, and now there’s even more music from the group, shared from their forthcoming LP called ‘Only You Left’. They say: “You are Eating a Part of Yourself’ began when a durational guitar loop was released from the archive of improv’s recorded in Henry’s bedroom.
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NRBQ might just be your favourite band’s favourite band, and so, any news from the group is worth mentioning. They’ve announced the release and remaster of ‘Grooves In Orbit’, which was originally on record shelves back in 1983, and released on the legendary Bearsville Records. This new version includes new liner notes and seven bonus tracks, which
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The renaissance of Library music has been one of the more wholesome things in pop culture – a true celebration of the fine, underdog musicians who often soundtracked our lives to little personal fanfare. With this reappraisal has seen the likes of Alan Hawkshaw, Keith Mansfield, and even Delia Derbyshire getting a light shone on
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‘Taxman’ is one of George Harrison’s most identifiable songs, lambasting those pesky politicians for taxing him too hard. As we know, The Beatles stopped touring in the middle of their career, so there’s a wealth of music the boys never played live – so it’s always a thrill to see anything from the late period
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One hit wonders get a lot of hate, thanks in part to being overplayed, and usually, because they’re catchy bubblegum tracks that land in the middle of supposed credible music, for which they’re unfavourably compared. And so, to 1998 and Britpop has moved to one side in favour of Landfill Indie, and Massive Attack emerge
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COI LERAY FLIPS ‘THE MESSAGE’
You need a lot of nerve and swagger to sample an iconic hip hop track like Grandmaster Flash’s ‘The Message’, but fuck it, it’s over four decades old so I think we’ll all cope. Fact is, on Coi Leray’s new single ‘Players’, it sounds fresh as hell, so we’re all good! The message is a…
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THE KINKS: MATURE THEMES FOR THE YOUNG HEART
While many of their contemporaries were simply yearning for love or regretting the loss of it, The Kinks were more than just a band a pop band. Trusting their peers and listeners to understand broader ideas, they looked at the class system, the minutiae of British life, nostalgia, the rise and fall of empires and…
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WE COMPLETELY MISREAD THE NEWS
We get confused very often. It’s not cute, but it is a reality. We were reading the music news for the day, wondering what we could steal and repurpose as our own like all quality publications do, and well, it got a bit weird for a second. See, we idly read something about Megadeth –…
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NEW KALI UCHIS
In another life, we interviewed Kali Uchis before she was very famous, and honestly, she was incredibly pleasant and was especially mean about the girls from her school who liked Chris Brown. She was good value and then went off with her manager to Nando’s, where we worried that she might get a bad idea…
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