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This isn’t technically music, but pop culture counts, and we stumbled across a glorious DIY documentary of mall life in ’80s USA Candid interviews with kids hanging out, talking about buying records, flirting, shopping, smoking cigarettes and more. Great accents and haircuts galore. Enjoy.
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Grimes makes music and she’s got stuff to say about artificial intelligence. Now, there’s been a lot of chat about AI recently, as basically, it’s got sophisticated enough to start making soundalike songs of other artists, and this goes beyond parody and impersonation – it’s something new and weird, so we’ve got to have a
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Great news pop fans! There’s going to be a biopic of Frankie Goes To Hollywood. We were going to make a literal ‘going to Hollywood’ pun, but decided to merely half-mention it instead for vague credit on a pun we had no confidence in, just in case it worked. Anyway, don’t they all deserve it?
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Daft Punk are ace, and there’s still cool stuff in the hard drive it turns out, as they’ve put out a previously unreleased track that features The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas. This track is called ‘Infinity Repeating’ and is not to be confused with the other track they did with him. Great news too, that this
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Janelle Monae has had an interesting career and it looks like more of the same with a new LP called ‘The Age Of Pleasure’ – and if you like your news to come ready made with some new music to listen to, you’re in luck – there’s a brand spanker called ‘Lipstick Lover’ to get
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One of the weirder things about the coronation of Sausage Hands Charlie (amongst a myriad of utterly bizarre things, honestly – we’ll get to that at the end) regards a man sat in the throng who looked like someone in disguise. The internet had a laugh and joked that it was obviously Meghan Markle in
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Impossibly handsome and every bit as broken – Syd Barrett is one of the faces of the psychedelic movement, and yet, still so enigmatic. With that, there’s always going to be interest in him, how he founded and named one of the biggest band’s in the world and, to many, his time in the band
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If you’ve ever wanted to see what it was like during a seminal time on the White Isle, then you need to check Dave Swindell’s ‘Ibiza ’89’ book. Start muttering about the quality of pills and what constitutes ‘Balearic’ and all that good stuff, while leafing through some gorgeous photos of the time. There’s over
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If you want to listen to a load of Eurovision songs from all decades, then have we got a playlist for you! Now, this skews a little more modern than maybe most, but don’t worry, ‘Ding-a-Dong’ and ABBA are in there. Eurovision of course, has been so historically uncool that it turns out having innocent,
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Songs your dad loved are back in vogue thanks to a load of younger, possibly traumatised kids looking toward a simpler time of the ’70s or, at least, road trip radio stations, which sees younger artists wading into the comfort and flared jeans. With that, we tripped over a new song by Petal called ‘You
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RITA ORA BACK IN LIMELIGHT AFTER BRIEFEST POSSIBLE TIME OUT OF IT
Rita Ora’s life seems exhausting, honestly. Like treading water, she has to keep the grind up possibly more than a lot of her peers, from which you can draw your own conclusions. Her work ethic is very strong, that much is clear, as she scrambles over the bones of pop and celebrity culture. Does anyone…
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TAYLOR SWIFT VINYL OUTSELLS CD AND THAT’S A FUN THING
It is incredibly easy to be mildly irritated by Taylor Swift, but no-one is forcing anyone to like or dislike her here, because we’re not really talking about her music or her personality here. This is something else. This is about records, and buying LPs is good. Her recent LP ‘Midnights’ – which we haven’t…
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SOFIE IS AT IT AGAIN
‘Cult Survivor’ by Sofie was a really good album. Well, slightly redubbed as Sofie Royer and now in pierrot make-up, she’s at it again being great, with her ‘Harlequin’ LP. In 2022, it seems silly to start describing what she does when you can just click on the video below or indeed, give it a…
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
Born in a Derbyshire village in 1941, little did the residents of the High Peak village know that a legend had been born. Vivienne Westwood left Tintwistle for the big smoke to attend art school, but she only lasted one term, because frankly, formal training wasn’t needed for what she was about to give the…
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