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When you think of package tours, you think of ’70s glam rock oldheads doing the rounds, or maybe some old soulie revue on the Northern Soul circuit, or maybe ’80s popstars wheeled out to do the hits. All good, clean fun. Get a round in, sing your faves, and off you pop. However, package tours…
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Hits on hits, YoungBoy Never Broke Again has a new album out and it’s called ‘I Rest My Case’ (Jan 6). With occasional flashes of brilliance, and sometimes guilty of trap-by-numbers, what’s he up to now? Well, for starters, he’s signed to Motown which is nothing to be sniffed at, so there’s money and clout…
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You may not know this – you might – but recently, the mighty Shania Twain took her clothes off for a song. It was called ‘Waking Up Dreaming’ and it’s the lead single from her upcoming LP, ‘Queen Of Me’. About all that, she said a bunch of incredibly likeable stuff, because that’s what Shania…
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A new LP from Iggy Pop is always a roll of the dice, not that anyone is holding that against one of the greatest to ever do it. When he’s great, he’s untouchable – and then there’s the other Iggy who we’re rooting for and thinking about ‘No Fun’. So, a new album called ‘Every…
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De La Soul – bright clothes, witty, funny hip hop. They ushered in the Daisy Age and… well… they’ve always seemed pretty miserable since then haven’t they? One of the reasons they’ve been so moody is streaming. They just want to get paid and be treated fairly don’t they? That’s fair. They’ve also taken to…
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They’re mean. Every track is a diss track. Against who? Someone with receding hair. Someone boring. Copycats. Cluck clucking bitches. Waking up at 8am. You name it, they’re over it already. Like over exposed Instax shots at some NY loft party circa 2005, like early mixtape culture mixed with Kreayshawn’s Internet savvy, obscure electronica 45s,…
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Hey look! Some new music from the Lemon Twigs. And they’re in dreamy mode, with an achingly lovely number called ‘Corner Of My Eye’, channelling all that lovely ’60s and ’70s music that they always do. This is the first new bit of music we’ve had from the precocious D’Addario brothers in a couple of…
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There’s been a lot of talk about artificial intelligence and, honestly, despite only being a matter of weeks old, we’ve considered getting AI to write all our articles for us, because sometimes it seems that social media is made mostly of bot accounts, so we may as well them them all talk to each other,…
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It is funny how society ends up accepting what they once thought was evil and scary. Look at Iron Maiden – once accused of being satan worshippers and slaughtering your daughter and all that. Now, they’ve got their own beer and one of them flies other celebrities on his plane and all that. Now, they’re…
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You’ve seen Daft Punk without their masks on right? You’re either old enough and saw them live before they got famous enough to afford their fancy robot personas, or you’ve used the internet before and have a curious mind. If not, and it never occurred to you to have a search – good for you…
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DILLA SAMPLED SYNTH-FUNK LP TO GET REISSUED
We could have said that ‘Thrust’ by McNeal and Niles was getting reissued, but that may not mean a lot to most people. Instead, we’re telling you it has been sampled by J Dilla, because that’s a bit catchier. Either way, it’s a masterful and very, very sought after LP, so this is great news…
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TRYING TO GET SOME INTERNET TRAFFIC BY ANNOUNCING BEYONCE’S TOUR
Let’s face it – we don’t need to write about the imminent Beyonce tour. We don’t need to mention it at all, because obviously, the Beyhive have alerts set up and publications bigger than this one, with their CEO teams and algorithm jammers, will write about it more prominently. So we’ll be honest and just…
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KING OF THE HILL RETURNS
The best cartoon sitcom of all time, King of the Hill, is coming back. Now, you may have thought ‘hang on – isn’t The Simpson’s the greatest?‘ but we said ‘best‘, so suck it up. It’s official and everything that Hank Hill & Co will be back on our screens, and it will be getting…
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ROSE CITY BAND BRING NEW COSMIC COUNTRY
Like your country music to have at least tried acid? Well, you’re in luck, as primo psychedelic guitarist Ripley Johnson (of Wooden Shjips and Moon Duo) has a project you might like called Rose City Band. There’s a new LP due called ‘Garden Party’ (the fourth by the band in as many years) and is…
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