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Everyone was scrabbling around looking for a password so they could hear Hayley Williams’ new music, we found it, nearly published it before it transpired that she’d removed all the music from her website. What a palaver. Well, good news is that she’s officially released the 17 songs for everyone to hear so we don’t
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Honestly, if a group is dubbed ‘post punk’, there’s a good chance we’ll swerve it as we’re over it already. However, there’s no denying there’s some cool bands that have been called such things, and we’ve got a new track from Ganser which is very good indeed. From Chicago, they’ve got a new song called
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The comeback of country music has been fun and all, but we’ve found ourselves wishing someone would remember the weirder, louder, garage punk elements of it – think of all those old, fantastic, sleazy records that lie between rockabilly, early rock ‘n’ roll, and booty shakers. Well, Manchester group HONK remember, and they have an
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South Korean group, Silica Gel (great band name, that) have teamed up with Michelle Zauner aka Japanese Breakfast for a new track called ‘南宮FEFERE’. Zauner says: “This was the first time I’ve ever written lyrics in Korean. Anyone who’s familiar with my work knows how much my Korean heritage has come to mean to me,
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TOPS are a great little band – they’re awesome in a live setting too – and they’ve been putting some of their best work out this year, and their latest single is one of their best yet. Taken from their imminent album ‘Bury The Key’, new song ‘Annihilation’ is a slinky, synthy, almost Yacht Pop
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Leftfield pop can too often mean that an artist is making something fun, but wilfully awkward, so rock fans can assuage themselves from feelings of selling out. However, when you apply the term properly, you have pure pop and all that comes with it, just a smidge left of centre to make it feel more
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We’ve finally got an official trailer for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues after a teaser a while back, and as you might expect, there’s a lot of guest stars as the monsters of rock pull in the influential guns! In this new film, we see Questlove being zoomed by the boys, as well as
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We don’t know much about the group called Goon, but we were reading a review elsewhere and it sounded like something we’d like to hear. An almost four-track recorded, immediate version of modern psychedelic music – fun! The review in question was on Stereogum, if you want to read it. We’re going to investigate more,
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Whether you’re into smooth jazz fusion, easy listening, or a fan of the greatest long running joke in King Of The Hill, you’ll know Chuck Mangione. Sadly, Chuck has passed away, so we’re honouring him with this dynamite live clip of him playing his most iconic hit.
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Look, we’re not sure if this is folk-rock, popsike, or what – but we do know that Tyler Ballgame’s new single – ‘Got A New Car’ – is very, very pleasant to listen to and we think that you’ll like it when it goes into your ears too. Tyler has just signed to Rough Trade
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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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MUSICIANS THAT ARE SENDING PEOPLE TO SLEEP ZZZZZZ
We’re not sure it’s great news for a musician to be told that your work is sending people to sleep. Honestly, you’d rather here it’s caused raging impotence wouldn’t you? Unless you’re the Penguin Cafe Orchestra or something. Either way, this is the news that the likes of Billlie Eilish, BTS, and Khalid have woken…
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SCIENCE, NOT YET GASLIT BY A MUSICIAN, SAYS BEING A MUSICIAN MAKES YOU MORE ATTRACTIVE
Science has vaguely been doing its thing again, crunching some numbers and then spewing out some kind of finding. These findings we’re talking about here are by no means definitive, but we’ll talk about them anyway, because it’s funny to so. Apparently, according to boffins, being a musician makes you more attractive to possible suitors.…
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KELELA IS BACK, BEING GREAT
Whether you think of her music as experimental electronica, or future R&B, we can all agree that Kelela is fantastic. And she’s back with a new single called ‘Contact’. She’ll be releasing a new LP called ‘RAVEN’ which is bound to be fantastic on Feb 10th. New album ‘RAVEN’ is out on February 10th. And…
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