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  • REVIEW / BARKER / STOCHASTIC DRIFT

    Writing about electronic music is not one of the easier things to do, especially when it is more abstract, and elegantly linear. With Barker’s ‘Stochastic Drift’, it’s worth it as an exercise though, as what we’ve been faced with is one of the finest electronic LPs we’ve listened to in ages. It’s part techno, part

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  • HEY! NEW STEREOLAB!

    All the cool kids and record-collectors love Stereolab, so obviously, we’re excited to share the news that the groop are back. It is their first LP in 15 years AND there’s a new single for you to listen to, too! The new track is called ‘Aerial Troubles’, while the long-player is called ‘Instant Holograms On Metal

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  • BAD BUNNY / TINY DESK

    We wrote a very enthusiastic review of the newest album from Bad Bunny, and honestly, that giddiness has only grown in the time since then. Well, he’s put a great little band together and he’s done a Tiny Desk show for NPR, and honestly, it’s an instant classic. Get stuck in.

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  • 10 SONGS WITH… HEY KIDS ROCK N ROLL

    Welcome to a new sporadic feature where we let interesting and cool people tell us what they’re listening to, what makes them tick, and what they love about certain records. 10 songs that mean something to someone you’ll be interested in – as easy as that. Imagine going back to someone’s house after the pub

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  • HEY, SAILORR IS COOL!

    When you think of Florida, you generally think of messy, silly things and some dodgy retirees in golf buggies. Of course, there’s so much more to the area than simply being America’s wang. There’s good music down there. From Jacksonville, there’s SAILORR, who has a fair amount of buzz around them at the minute, thanks

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  • NEW OBONGJAYAR IS ACE

    He’s based in the UK, but Nigerian born, Obongjayar – who is new to us – has announced a new record called ‘Paradise Now’, which we’ll all be able to hear in May. ‘Sweet Danger’ is the name of the new track, and honestly, whatever we were expecting from looking at a thumbnail, this ain’t

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  • MORE WORDPLAY FROM AESOP ROCK

    He’s one of the hardest lyricists on the planet, with almost unmatched wordplay for the most part, and with that, has come a legend cemented in the underground. He’s not likely to trouble a Top 40, but that’s not Aesop Rock’s M.O., so that’s fine. There’s a new track from a new album to listen

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  • MICHAEL HURLEY, RIP

    One of outsider folk’s greatest, Michael Hurley, has passed away aged 83. The sad news was confirmed by his family. Hurley was an influence on a host of artists and responsible for some of the greatest slices of American freak-country ever recorded. In a statement to Rolling Stone, they said: “It is with a resounding sadness

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  • TURNED OUT WU LYF WERE COMING BACK

    Remember us telling you that we thought WU LYF were coming back? Turns out they were. And if you like them, then there’s a new song to listen to and… well… a lot of words to read. We’ll get to that. This is their first new song in a decade, after the LP ‘Go Tell

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  • KRAFTWERK + DAFT PUNK FRAUD

    Former Kraftwerker, Wolfgang Flür, was all excited that he’d done a track with Daft Punk‘s Thomas Bangalter. However, like many older people online, he was tricked by someone in the DMs. Poor old Wolfgang. He’d been teasing as such, for his latest LP ‘Times’, where he said that Thomas was working with Flür under a pseudonym

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  • RIHANNA SUPERBOWL TEASER

    She’s back. Well, coming back. Rihanna – perhaps the coolest popstar we’ve ever had – hasn’t released any proper music for roughly a million years, since ‘ANTI’ made everyone’s jaws drop. When it was announced that she was going to be the SuperBowl halftime show, everyone got very excited because that possibly means new music!…

  • WANT ‘ELECTRONIC MUSIC PRODUCER’ DOLL, THEN?

    Meet Kavi Sharma. Kavi is a doll that makes bangers, and that’s very obviously a fun thing. See, where music production used to be the playground of old lads with hairy ears and stoners, technology has opened it up to everyone, and now, very young people can do it themselves and actual children can aspire…

  • BRIT AWARDS NOT KEEN ON WOMEN MAKING MUSIC

    The Brit Awards (remember those?) is coming in for some justifiable stick this week, as they’ve completely failed to recognise any women in their Best British Artist category. So, what we’ll do is try our best to give them the benefit of the doubt while simultaneously rinsing them and pointing out the women that absolutely…

  • ARE PARAMORE FINALLY GOING TO GET WHAT THEY DESERVE?

    Paramore have not had an easy ride. When they first appeared on the scene proper, they found themselves working just about as hard as a band can work in the middle of a number of Vans Warped tour where, unsurprisingly for an event made up of frat boys pretending to be skaters and a load…

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